Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Eddy Duchin story [videorecording] / [presented by] Columbia Pictures ; produced by Jerry Wald ; story by Leo Katcher ; screenplay by Samuel Taylor ; directed by George Sidney.

Publisher, Date:

Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, [2002]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Duchin is a talented pianist and bandleader who sets New York society on its ear in the 1930s and 1940s. Duchin arrives in Manhattan dreaming only of a 'red Stutz Bearcat and a bankroll as big as the Ritz.' He goes on to steal the heart of society girl Marjorie Oelrichs, who teaches him that love, not money, brings happiness. But then tragedy happens, it leaves Duchin alone with a newborn son and no will to live.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Duchin, Eddy, 1909-1951 -- Drama.

Pianists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Bandmasters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Fathers and sons -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Musical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

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