Dorothy Caruso
Dorothy Caruso (6 August 1893 – 16 December 1955) was an American socialite and the wife of the Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso.
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Life
Born Dorothy Park Benjamin on 6 August 1893 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, she was the daughter of Park Benjamin, a lawyer and author, and Ida Crane.
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On 20 August 1918 she married Enrico Caruso, with whom she had a daughter, Gloria, born in 1919; Enrico Caruso died in 1921.[1] She married Captain Ernest Augustus Ingram (1892–1954) in London on 14 November 1925.[2][3] They had a daughter, Jacqueline,[4] and divorced in 1927.[5] She then married Charles Adam Holder (1872–1955) in Paris in 1933. They too, were later divorced.[6][7]
Dorothy Caruso died of cancer in Baltimore, Maryland on 16 December 1955, and was buried in Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore County, Maryland.[8]
Books
Caruso wrote two biographies of her husband: Wings Of Song: The Story Of Caruso published in 1928, and Enrico Caruso: His Life and Death published in 1945. The latter book was the basis for the screenplay of the 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture The Great Caruso, with Mario Lanza in the title rôle. Dorothy Caruso was portrayed in the film by Ann Blyth.[9][10]
Her autobiography, Dorothy Caruso: A Personal History, was published in 1952.
References
- "Caruso love letters reveal passion behind a life of epic operatic drama". Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- [U.P.] (28 June 1933). Caruso Widow And Dr. Holder To Wed In Paris. New York: Daily News. Accessed May 2018.
- "15 Nov 1925, Sun • Page 9". The Atlanta Constitution. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- "25 Sep 1927, Sun • Page 27". The Ogden Standard-Examiner. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- "18 Oct 1927, Tue • Page 10". News-Journal. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- "06 Jul 1933, Thu • Main Edition • Page 10". The Courier-News. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- "June 30, 1933". The Lewiston Daily Sun. 1933.
- "16 Dec 1955, Fri • Page 50". The Evening Sun. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- Caruso, Dorothy; Goddard, Torrance (1928). Wings of Song: The Story of Caruso. Minton, Balch.
- Gevinson, Alan (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press. p. 412. ISBN 9780520209640.