The Eddy Duchin Story
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Movie Reviews of The Eddy Duchin Story
Movie Review: The Eddie Duchin Story
Summary: 5 Stars
This film was the best for a romantic story and tragedy , beautiful stage settings and clothes. Superb acting.Movie Review: Eddy Duchin Story
Summary: 5 Stars
A lovely film with some classic actors. It shows what can be achieved when you dont give in.
Regards Zy
Movie Review: Predictable... handsome... and sentimental...
Summary: 4 Stars
With the help of Marjorie Oelrichs (Kim Novak), a charming socialite he has met at New York's Central Park Casino, Eddy Duchin was part of the two piano team featured by Leo Reisman (Larry Keating) Orchestra in the late 1920's..
Duchin's distinctive playing wins him rapid fame... His measured weight of fingering ensured a balance between poetry and purpose... Every sound conceivable was possible in his artistic palette... He played wonderful music... His piano tone itself was gorgeous and versatile... He amazed audiences with his immense vigor, virtuosity and daring technique... He was soon a darling of Marjorie and high society...
His love affair with Marjorie culminates in marriage... but the perfect happiness is short-lived as Marjorie fades away in child-birth on Christmas Eve...
Heartbroken, Duchin declines to accept his baby blaming him for Marjorie's death and turns him over to Marjorie's uncle and aunt to be cared and raised, and embarks an overseas concert tour with his friend & manager, Lou Sherwood (James Whitmore).
During World War II, while serving as Naval Lieutenant Commander in the Pacific, Duchin realizes the futility of his attitude about his son, now ten, but his attempts to reconcile with him failed because of the boy's resentment...
With the help of Chiquita (Victoria Shaw) Peter's pretty nanny, he finally wins his son over and with his ability to charm as well as to thrill audiences, he proves himself as the pianist of sentiment par excellence... Nothing equaled the lightness & sweetness of his preluding on the piano...
But tragedy once again overtakes Duchin's daisy fingers as he learns he is suffering from leukemia and has only a short time to live...
Duchin's passing from the scene playing a "little double piano" with Peter is a duo-handkerchief climax...
Tyrone Power won the hearts of the audience playing the pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin... He does not interpret music, he exudes it, breathes it, compelling showmanship with great freedom, taste and intelligence...
With a stupendous distribution of Duchin's fine piano, the film is predictable, handsome & sentimental...
Movie Review: A Poignant but Musically Uplifting Biopic
Summary: 4 Stars
Tyrone Power, as Eddy Duchin, pianist and NYC bandleader, lives up to his reputation as a fine actor with a physiognomy that beguiles the ladies in the audience.
Kim Novak, young and ineffably beautiful, playing Duchin's first wife, gives an adequate performance. But who cares that she lacked the talent that she would come to possess later in film? She is adorned magnificently throughout the film in the most striking ensembles created by Jean Louis. Ms. Novak is in the film just long enough for you to fall in love with her.
Vitoria Shaw provides an adequate performance as Duchin's second amore.
But the reel star of this classic film is the music! You'll be tapping your feet, whistling melodies that you had never heard before, and wishing there were more to hear. In the end, it's the music that will capture your heart, and make you want to view this DVD again and again and again.
Movie Review: Forgotten era
Summary: 4 Stars
Music in this movie is everything. It brings back memories of great Eddy Duchin (for those who remember him). However, Carmen Cavallaro does not attempt to imitate his unique piano style and plays his well known ornate style, so different from Duchin's. That creates sort of confusion, but interestingly - helps them both: Cavallaro becomes even more popular, while Duchin's legend goes on and results in growing interest in his own, original recordings. Unfortunately not many of them are available; hismostly pre-war recordings with noisy orchestration do not allow
much to enjoy his pianistics as a soloist. Cavallaro's separate
recording from late 50's "CC Remembers Eddy Duchin" brings back
more tunes played by Duchin at Central Park Casino in NYC and
deserves to be popularized in CD form. This movie is a jewel for all popular music lovers from forgotten 1920-1930 era...