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4 unusual facts about The Eddy Duchin Story


Carmen Cavallaro

His most celebrated film achievement was playing the piano music for actor Tyrone Power’s hands to mime, in The Eddy Duchin Story (1956).

Eddy Duchin

The film did well in theaters, and was well enough known to be referenced in one of Columbia's Three Stooges shorts: the Stooges' spaceship is about to crash when Joe Besser yelps, "I don't want to die! I can't die! I haven't seen The Eddy Duchin Story yet!"

George Greeley

Greeley coached Tyrone Power for The Eddy Duchin Story and performed the piano parts which Power mimed.

To Love Again

"To Love Again", version of My Twilight Dream by Eddy Duchin, featured in The Eddy Duchin Story (1956); a resetting of Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9 no. 2;



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