Liberace: Behind the Music | |
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Genre | Biography Drama Music |
Written by | Gavin Lambert |
Directed by | David Greene |
Starring | Victor Garber Saul Rubinek Michael Dolan Maureen Stapleton |
Music by | Hagood Hardy |
Country of origin | Canada United States |
Original language | English |
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Executive producers | Linda Yellen Nancy Bein |
Producer | Murray Shostak |
Production location | Montreal |
Cinematography | René Verzier |
Editor | Yves Langlois |
Running time | 97 minutes |
Production company | The Kushner-Locke Company |
Original release | |
Network | CBS |
Release | October 9, 1988 |
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Liberace: Behind the Music is a 1988 Canadian-American made-for-television biographical film. It is an "unofficial" biopic drama on the life and death of Władziu Valentino Liberace, who went from a humble working-class background to become a famous American pianist and vocalist. Known as "Liberace", he became the highest paid entertainer in the world, while embracing a lifestyle of flamboyant excess. The film first aired less than two years after his death, in the United States, as a CBS Sunday Movie.