1945 film featuring Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Hazel Scott, Anne Brown with Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, and Oscar Levant. Directed by Irving Rapper. Newly remastered from 4K scans of ...
American Scholar magazine gushed: “Among the pop culture stars of the mid-20th century, few were as diversely talented as the inimitable Oscar Levant. Urbane and self-lacerating, Levant cultivated a ...
Sean Hayes, best known as the bitchily bright-eyed Jack McFarland in sitcom Will and Grace, transforms himself here into Oscar Levant, the depressive, drug-addicted pianist, actor and wit who was a ...
Who is Oscar Levant? On myriad levels, this is the question both we and Doug Wright’s play, coming to London after a Tony Award-winning run on Broadway, need to ask. Levant, as a minor character here ...
Actor Max Roll may not look an awful lot like the real-life character he plays in Doug Wright’s “Good Night, Oscar” at Asolo Repertory Theatre, but he sure makes you believe he’s the real deal.
His affairs are a mess: mentally ill, addicted to a slew of pills, on the outs with wife June and quickly acquiring a reputation for no-showing the promoters who book him. Can he hold it together for ...
It wasn’t so long ago that Oscar Levant was a household name to American audiences. The pianist and movie star was known for his sharp wit and unpredictability. In the drama “Good Night, Oscar,” ...