Word: levien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sonya Levien's original story of Gersh win's progress from a penny arcade pianola to fabulous success and tragic death has been adapted by Scripters How ard Koch and Elliot Paul with simplicity and reasonable fidelity. Newcomer Robert Alda looks enough like Gershwin and, with the aid of some astute photography, fakes his piano playing skilfully enough to be convincing in the cacophony of Remick's, a music publishing company, and impressive at a concert grand in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall...