New on Disc: 'The Eddy Duchin Story' and more …
17 Mar, 2014 By: Mike Clark
The Eddy Duchin Story (Blu-ray)
Available via ScreenArchives.com
Twilight Time, Drama, $29.95 Blu-ray, NR.
Stars Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Victoria Shaw, Rex Thompson.
1956. This film about society pianist Eddy Duchin was rated one of the best biopics of the era, capturing upper-scale New York City (no Village bohemians in this movie) about as well as any other screen portrayal did at the time.
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What Price Hollywood?
Available via Warner Archive
Warner, Drama, $18.95 DVD, NR.
Stars Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton.
1932. This David O. Selznick-George Cukor collaboration is a still-relevant, unofficial first screen version of what later halfway morphed into A Star Is Born.
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