He was known for mixing jazz and gospel and blues and many other styles or types of music together. He started playing piano to support himself. Ray had a hard young life, losing his eyesight by age seven, and his brother, father and mother before he was 16 years old. The movie 'Ray' was released just a few months after the death of Ray Charles. 'A Song To Remember' was nominated for six Oscars including a Best Actor nomination for Cornel Wilde. Paul Muni was best known as a murderous gangster in 'Scarface', released in 1932. Chopin died at age 39 but as late as 2011 the cause was still being debated most think it was tuberculosis.Ĭornelle Wilde was best known as the narrator of a World War II movie, 'Beach Red' and as a circus performer in 'The Greatest Show On Earth'. Most of his money was made giving piano lessons and selling the music he composed for the piano. After moving to Paris, he became well known and respected in the world of music but didn't actually perform for many people. He had other teachers but eventually settled with Professor Elsner. Chopin's mother and father were talented musicians but he received his first piano lessons from his sister before he reached age seven. Cornel Wilde played Frederic Chopin and Paul Muni was his teacher and friend, Professor Elsner. 'The Gene Krupa Story' was nominated for a Laurel Award (for musicals). He had a brief career as a pop artist with a couple of songs on the Billboard Hot 100 charts before taking on the job of flamboyant Gene Krupa. Mineo moved to California and was one of Hollywood's first to admit to being gay. Sal Mineo was probably best known for his part opposite James Dean in 'Rebel Without A Cause' but he had many challenging roles and shared the screen and stage with other greats like Yul Brenner, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. Krupa was 64 when he died of heart failure and leukemia. As with so many in this quiz, drugs and alcohol and hard living adversely affected his life. In the movie, he moved to New York with a friend and the friend's girlfriend, whom Krupa eventually married. All Krupa ever wanted was to make music and as a young man, he became a popular drummer and musician in the Chicago jazz scene. Krupa was one of nine children born to a Polish immigrant who planned for his son to become a priest. Sal Mineo had the starring role in the 1959 movie 'The Gene Krupa Story'.
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