Producer: Jerry Wald & Jonie Taps
Director: George Sidney
Music: George Duning
Release Date: June 21, 1956
Awards: It was nominated for four separate Oscars: Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Sound & Best Writing. It was also nominated for a DGA award as well as a WGA award.
Origination: Based on the life and sudden death of renown piano player, Eddy Duchin.
Interesting Fact: The soundtrack and piano playing sequences were done with the talent of piano player Carmen Cavallero.
Eddy Duchin: What I want to know is why! Why do they have to destroy a man twice? You work and work and just what do you get? Everything, when it gets too good they take it away.
Eddy Duchin was a famous piano player with humble beginnings. On his path to success, he experienced multiple set backs, including the death of his own wife after giving birth to their only son. His ability at the piano was as entertaining as it was unique. Some of his best songs are played in this film. Duchin is played by Tyrone Power, who filled the role perfectly. This is my favorite bio-pic.
Power had expressed remorse that Duchin died at such a young age of forty-one. Less than two years after the release of this film, Power's passed away as a result of a massive heart attack at the age of forty-four. My mother told me that she cried for weeks.
Power had expressed remorse that Duchin died at such a young age of forty-one. Less than two years after the release of this film, Power's passed away as a result of a massive heart attack at the age of forty-four. My mother told me that she cried for weeks.
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