Today, Peter Duchin is a society orchestra leader who entertains for those who summer in places like the Hamptons, Westport, Grosse Point, Jupiter Island or Newport, R.I. His autobiography, Ghost of a Chance is a breezily written story co-authored with Charles Michener.
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-04/books/bk-31010_1_peter-duchin
THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY, screen play by Samuel Taylor; story by Leo Katcher; directed by George Sidney; produced by Jerry Wald for Columbia. At the Radio City Music Hall. Eddy Duchin. . . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9504E2DD143FE03BBC4A51DFB066838D649EDE
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049170/
Start reading while you listen to a rendition of I'll Take Manhattan.. Movie buffs and older baby boomers will recognize Eddy Duchin as the popular pianist and orchestra leader of the 1930s and '40s who was portrayed by Tyrone Power in a maudlin tear-jerker, The Eddy Duchin Story.. Peter was the young son Tyrone Power so awkwardly tried to warm up to.
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-04/books/bk-31010_1_peter-duchin
For the simple fact is that the story—at least, the fictional story—of Mr. Duchin's life is a grimly determined heartbreaker with little respite from the cold breath of doom. Barely has Mr. Duchin, played by Tyrone Power, arrived in New York, a hopeful yokel, than disappointment dogs his path.
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9504E2DD143FE03BBC4A51DFB066838D649EDE
More Info. The Eddy Duchin Story. The era of big bands, grand ballrooms and casino nightlife comes alive in THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY, a musical biography of the talented pianist and bandleader who set New York society on its ear in the 1930s and '40s.
http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!overview/27791/The-Eddy-Duchin-Story
Two years later, Marjorie and Eddy get married and in the Christmas, Marjorie has a baby, Peter, but she dies after the delivery. Eddy rejects Peter blaming him for the death of Marjorie and only five years later he meets his son. With the World War II, Eddy Duchin breaks up his band and enlists to fight in the war. With the end of the war, Eddy returns to New York with the intention of getting closer to Peter but he sees the boy connected to his friend Chiquita. When Eddy discovers that he has a terminal disease, he ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049170/
Storyline. In the late 20's, the talkative newly graduated in pharmacy and aspirant piano player Eddy Duchin comes from Boston to New York expecting to play with the orchestra of Leo Reisman at fancy New York's Central Park Casino.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049170/
THE potency of popular music as a stimulant to sentimental moods and as lachrymal inspiration in times of poignancy is played to a fare thee well (and then some) in Columbia's new color film, The Eddy Duchin Story, which came to the Music Hall yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9504E2DD143FE03BBC4A51DFB066838D649EDE
Segue to Eddy Duchin's signature tune, Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat. Peter Duchin was born in New York City in 1937, the only child of his handsome father, Eddy, and his attractive socialite wife, Marjorie Oelrichs. Duchin the elder, the son of Jewish immigrant parents, was a musical genius who began leading his own orchestra in 1931 when he was only 22.
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-04/books/bk-31010_1_peter-duchin
who played peter in the eddy duchin story
In the Eddy Duchin story, Tyrone Power played Peter. Tyrone Power played Peter in the Eddy Duchin Story.