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The life of the flamboyant pianist, Liberace, who graduated from being a classical performer to become the highest-paid entertainer in the history of Las Vegas, with a look at his turbulent career, from the heady days of public adulation, Rolls...
Initial release: October 2, 1988
Directors: William Hale and Tommy Groszman
Production design: K.C. Fox
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What caused Liberace's death?
HIV/AIDS
Liberace's physician, Ronald Daniels, said he had died of heart failure caused by subacute encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease. The Riverside County coroner performed an autopsy and determined that Liberace's cause of death was cytomegalovirus pneumonia, a frequent cause of death in people with AIDS.
Did Andrew Robinson play Liberace?
Liberace: Behind the Music was broadcast one week after the ABC biopic production Liberace (1988), starring Andrew Robinson in the lead, and with a script holding to a point of view that Liberace was heterosexual.
What ethnicity was Liberace?
Władziu (or Vladziu) Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), best known as Liberace, was an American pianist and vocalist of Polish-Italian origin.
How accurate is the movie Behind the Candelabra?
How closely does Soderbergh hew to Thorson's story of life with Liberace? Pretty closely—though the accuracy of Thorson's book itself is another matter. (Thorson has served time for burglary in the past and was recently arrested again on similar charges.)
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