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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Tango Entertainment, Inc
EAN: 0844628090780
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Tango Entertainment / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Manufacturer: Tango Entertainment / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Tango Entertainment / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 40400
Studio: Tango Entertainment / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Theatrical Release Date: 1988
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Bespangled pianist Liberace remains one of the most unique performers in the history of popular music. Born of Polish-Italian extraction in 1919 Wisconsin Wladziu Liberace was a child prodigy winning a musical scholarship at age seven and making his solo concert debut four years later. When he returned from performing in an armed forces band during WWII the pianist decided to leave a promising classical career in pursuit of mainstream stardom and by the early 1950s was a successful pop recording artist. As Liberace began utilizing everything from cocktail jazz and Tin Pan Alley standards to easy-listening versions of classical themes his showmanship expanded encompassing outrageous costumes and elaborate stage designs. Even after his records stopped selling Liberace continued to remain a huge concert attraction (particularly in sin-city Las Vegas) until his AIDS-related death in February 1987. This appropriately glitzy made-for-TV biopic dramatizes the long and varied career of the larger-than-life pianist with actor Victor Garber (ALIAS TITANIC) turning in a fine lead performance as Mr. Showmanship himself.System Requirements:Running Time: 97 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 844628090780 Manufacturer No: DH9078
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - OK Movie
I remember watching this movie in the mid nineties. I decided to purchase it to give it another go. The movie was ok. I think it could have foretold much more about the life of Liberace, i.e, his struggles as a gay man and the last days of life after being diagnosed with AIDS. Overall its worth the watch.
Rating: - Add 1 star for magnificent Garber performance; subtract 1 star for choppy continuity
This 1988 TV-movie dramatizes the life of Liberace, who rose from a "shabby" background to become a world-class pianist and a human monument to glamour. In other hands this could have been a shrill, sensationalized biography, dwelling on smirking innuendos and tawdry episodes, with Liberace presented as a flamboyant, shallow caricature. Thankfully both the script and the performances are sympathetic, and viewers can sense just how sensitive and troubled Liberace was.
Victor Garber turns ... Read More
Rating:  - Best movie about Liberace's life
Actor Victor Garber portrays the legendary child prodigy Liberace, who became one of the world's greatest entertainers, while embracing a lifestyle of flamboyant excess. Liberace was a gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, at the age of 17 Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but he wanted more. Through a combination of showmanship, determination and amazing talent he acheived his dream as the world's highest paid performer. Liberace had an amazing ability of combining ... Read More
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