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The life story of the famous pianist and band leader of the 1930s and 1940s.The life story of the famous pianist and band leader of the 1930s and 1940s.The life story of the famous pianist and band leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
- Nominated for 4 Oscars
- 1 win & 6 nominations total
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- TriviaThe music was played by pianist Carmen Cavallaro in his own style. He had a completely different, and more technically precise, style of playing than Eddy Duchin had. The orchestral arrangements and style of playing are also anachronistic - Cavallaro's of the 1950s versus Duchin's, typical of the late 1920s and early 1930s. (Duchin's orchestra also included a tuba and banjo). If you listen to recordings by both, this is clearly evident.
- GoofsEddy Duchin suffered from acute myelogenous leukemia. This blood disease would not have created the hand paralysis shown in the movie. The paralysis was done for dramatic effect. Eddy Duchin died at Memorial Hospital in New York City on February 9, 1951. He was 41.
- Quotes
Eddy Duchin: What I want to know is why! Why do they have to destroy a man twice? You work and work and just when you get... everything. When it gets too good they take it away.
Eddy Duchin: Oh Chiquita, I don't want to die. I don't.
- ConnectionsFeatured in TCM Guest Programmer: Humberto Martinez (2017)
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Although Tyrone Power might be the only person who could play this pianist role, but he was too old for this cast, not even with his non-stop, over-the-top fake and exaggerated smiles from the very beginning to the end. I just felt so tired of watching him smiled ear to ear all the time, yet at the same time, his tired wrinkles eyes told the opposite. Kim Novak, what a goddess like exquisite actress.
When the movie started, people singing in the park, music everywhere. It's just looked like a musical movie, so fake and unrealistic to paint a grand picture of New York. The only thing that really held my interest was the wonderful performance of Power's piano play. The screenplay was not as good as it should be either. A dramatized biopic of Eddy Duchin and the awkward unlikely romance. Just listen to the music, don't take it too seriously otherwise.
When the movie started, people singing in the park, music everywhere. It's just looked like a musical movie, so fake and unrealistic to paint a grand picture of New York. The only thing that really held my interest was the wonderful performance of Power's piano play. The screenplay was not as good as it should be either. A dramatized biopic of Eddy Duchin and the awkward unlikely romance. Just listen to the music, don't take it too seriously otherwise.
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- Oct 8, 2021
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- Prica o Ediju Ducinu
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- Runtime2 hours 3 minutes
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- 2.55 : 1
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