I imagine that those who went to see Sincerely Yours back in 1955 went to see Liberace play the piano. When he's doing his Liberace thing at the piano he's just fine. But the man's image just prevents him from being taken seriously as any kind of actor.
Warner Brothers used an old film of George Arliss's The Man Who Played God and rewrote it with a romantic angle for Liberace. On stage Otis Skinner played the same role. It was really kind of unfair to give Liberace a role that two of the finest actors going had done before. What could the brothers Warner expect?
Liberace is an acclaimed concert pianist who is having the worst of all things happen to a musician, he's going deaf. It happened to Beethoven, can Liberace carry on the way Ludwig did?
Libby is also in love with promising music student Dorothy Malone, but she likes promising composer Alex Nicol and in the meantime Libby can't see his faithful secretary Joanne Dru is carrying a big old Statue of Liberty size torch for her boss. Liberace's scenes with both actresses are just ludicrous.
Just listen to the music and marvel at the talent there that was once Liberace and forget the rest.
Warner Brothers used an old film of George Arliss's The Man Who Played God and rewrote it with a romantic angle for Liberace. On stage Otis Skinner played the same role. It was really kind of unfair to give Liberace a role that two of the finest actors going had done before. What could the brothers Warner expect?
Liberace is an acclaimed concert pianist who is having the worst of all things happen to a musician, he's going deaf. It happened to Beethoven, can Liberace carry on the way Ludwig did?
Libby is also in love with promising music student Dorothy Malone, but she likes promising composer Alex Nicol and in the meantime Libby can't see his faithful secretary Joanne Dru is carrying a big old Statue of Liberty size torch for her boss. Liberace's scenes with both actresses are just ludicrous.
Just listen to the music and marvel at the talent there that was once Liberace and forget the rest.