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Puccini’s "Tosca" as the leading lady, Elissa Iandi, went about her business of doing him in, The hero of this now forgotten film was Cary Grant.
The year 1935 saw the lovely soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, Mary Ellis, in the romantically entertaining "All the King’s Horses” with the charming Danish cabaret star Carl Brisson, later that year Miss Ellis appeared in another Paramount film of less paramount importance “Paris in Spring", This one was pleasant enough, if only to see another Continental charmer at work Tullio Carminati. It also featured a very young Ida Lupino. Miss Ellis had previously appeared in the English-made "Bella Doma" (a most apt description for Miss Ellis) with screendom's all-time great actor Conrad Veidt.
As we cross the Atlantic in 1935, we find the British Studios with an English version of “Unfinished Symphony" with Marta Eggerth and Hans Jaray — the stars of the original Austrian version made two years previously. A Gaumont-British non-singing version of Puccini’s "La Boheme” entitled "Mimi" also came out that year. The stars — Gertrude Lawrence and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. were both badly miscast. A familiar name in English musical circles was Derek Oldham, whose film "Her Song of Love" was released during this period.
The Viennese on their part contributed another cinematic offering to the immortal Johann Strauss dynasty entitled "Unsterbliche Melodien" with Leo Slezak and Alfred Jerger. The German Studios released a barrage of musical films including "The Sun Rises" with Charles Kullman; two Marta Eggerth operettas "The Emperor Waltz" and "Czardas Duchess", as well as Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender’s "Invitation to the Dance, The French released "No Relations" with their once-great basso turned actor, VanniMarcoux, The noted French baritone Andre Bauge