The Eddy Duchin Story
1956
Action / Biography / Drama / Music / Romance

The Eddy Duchin Story
1956
Action / Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
Plot summary
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
Director
Top cast
Movie Reviews
Predictable... handsome... and sentimental!
Heartbreakingly Wonderful "Eddy Duchin Story Shines" ****
Eddy Duchin's music was so beautiful. He had a magic touch at the piano. Unfortunately, his real life was so tragic.
Tyrone Power shines as Duchin. From his beginnings to success, Power evoked the right temperament in portraying this musician brilliantly.
Kim Novak, just off an awful performance in the acclaimed "Picnic," the year before, gives a wonderful supporting performance as Duchin's ill-fated first wife. Who can forget her fear of rain and thunder? Who can forget that thunder scene in the hospital as her life ends?
Victoria Shaw, as Eddy's second wife, is also quite good. She brings Eddy back so that life is worth living for him and is able to reconcile him with his young son, whose birth Duchin blamed for the death of his first wife.
We are fortunate to have had such a picture made and the legacy that Duchin left-his playing as well as his son, musician Peter Duchin.