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He Sings .. .* He Dances . . .+
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of the picture, Liberace approached the love scenes with all the easy confidence of a Yale senior at large. To Dorothy Malone fell the honor of sharing Liberace’s first screen kiss; and director Gordon Douglas, aware of Lee’s inexperience in such kleig-lighted matters, went to some pains to show the pianist exactly how it should be done.
“Gordie,” said Liberace, when it began to appear that Douglas was losing himself in the part, “that’s long enough. How about letting me try that for a change?”
With Joanne Dru, the pianist was even more impetuous. He was supposed to charge up a steel staircase outside Carnegie Hall and sweep the girl into his arms on the landing. On the first take he tripped halfway up and fell on his face. On the second take he made it. Reaching the landing, he grabbed Miss Dru in what can only be described as a bear hug.
Miss Dru had been suffering from a crick in her neck. When Liberace pulled her to him, sparing no horses, the neck suddenly cracked with a sound like a pistol shot. “Gee, thanks a lot,” she said breathlessly. “I was going to a doctor tonight, but you just saved me the trouble.”
Liberace has been at some pains to explain that “Sincerely Yours” is in no sense his own biography. It tells the story of a young concert pianist whose ambition in life is to play at Carnegie Hall. On the eve of achieving his goal, he becomes deaf. He loses what he supposes to be the love of his life, a wealthy socialite
*With Joanne Dru. + Alone +With Dorothy Malone
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(Miss Malone). He has an operation, plays Carnegie Hall and discovers, just in time for the picture’s ending, that it’s his secretary (Miss Dru) he really loved all the time. The secretary, of course, has loved him all the time and even a casual moviegoer could tell who was going to win.
Liberace plays a total of 31 numbers in the picture and wears almost as many different costumes, all highly stylized in the Liberace manner. He also dances (“surprisingly well,” according to a crew member) and does considerable serious emoting. “After all,” explains Douglas, “being deaf is hardly a laughing matter. We’ve toned down the famous smile and given him a lot of good, down-toearth dialog.”
“This guy,” says the film editor, “is going to surprise a lot of people who didn’t think he could do anything except grin and play the piano.” Liberace, who still smiles occasionally on his way to the bank, owns a piece of the picture and is making a point of selling it himself. Starting with the Oct. 28 premiere in Chi