The Eddy Duchin Story

The Eddy Duchin Story
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Directed by	George Sidney
Written by	Samuel A. Taylor
Produced by	Jerry Wald Jonie Taps
Starring	Kim Novak Tyrone Power Victoria Shaw James Whitmore Shepperd Strudwick
Cinematography	Harry Stradling
Edited by	Viola Lawrence Jack Ogilvie
Music by	George Duning
Production company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	June 21, 1956 (1956-06-21)
Running time	123 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3 million[1]
Box office	$5.3 million (US)[2]

The Eddy Duchin Story is a 1956 American biopic film of band leader and pianist Eddy Duchin starring Tyrone Power and Kim Novak. Filmed in CinemaScope, the Technicolor production was directed by George Sidney and written by Samuel A. Taylor. Harry Stradling received an Academy Award nomination for his cinematography. The picture received four nominations in total and was one of the highest-grossing films of 1956. Incorporating signature elements of Duchin's style into his own, Carmen Cavallaro performed the piano music for the film.

Some of the film's box office success can be attributed to the appearance of Novak in ads for No-Cal diet soda. Novak became one of the first celebrities to be featured in advertisements for soft drinks, and each ad also featured a reminder to see Novak in The Eddy Duchin Story.

Musician Peter Duchin, whose relationship with his father is a major subject of the film, has written very negatively about the script, saying there was too much unnecessary fictionalization of his parents' lives and deaths.