biography
pronunciation:
[levant]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1906–72)
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| biography:
| Pianist and actor, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied composition with Schoenberg, but his close friendship with Gershwin was the determining factor in his career, becoming as a pianist one of the foremost Gershwin interpreters. At the same time, he had an active career as a screen and radio humorist and author, his films including An American in Paris (1951), and his books including Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965). |
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