Mozart ’Alleluia’ - Deanna Durbin & Leopold Stokowski

In “100 Men and a Girl,“ Deanna Durbin tries to persuade Leopold Stokowski to conduct an orchestra of unemployed musicians that includes her trombonist father. One of her tactics is to infiltrate a Stokowski rehearsal and in the first of the two clips seen here she listens to the Act 3 Prelude from Wagner’s “Lohengrin“ before being asked to leave the hall. Pursued by the stage doorman, she hides away in Stokowski’s office where she encounters his manager but then returns just as the Maestro is rehearsing M