Oscar Levant

[Allan]

I was just watching a little of the 1940's movie, "Humoresque," which stars Joan Crawford, John Garfield and Oscar Levant.  The piano playing of Levant is quite good.  In one scene he plays a Chopin etude at a dinner party.   I recall that he was a friend of Gershwin's.

[mh88]

levant played most of gershwin's music and played much of it on screen

you might find the movie "an american in paris" quite good, he plays all gershwin...including the 3rd movement his concerto in f

quite good, not a bad movie either

one of my favorite quotes of levant was a coment made after hearing gershwin speak about himself in his own words...to which levant replied..."george, if you had it to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?"

they were very close friends and it could be said that his career was based around gershwin's work...

another thing that might be good to look at is a book about levant regarding gershwin, also very good

https://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1879505398-0