Knowledge based website that references the life and career of that "Ace Drummin' Man", Gene Krupa!
| Title: |
The Gene Krupa Story |
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| Category: |
Musical Biography |
| Format: |
Color |
| Run Time: |
101 minutes |
| Released by: |
Columbia Pictures |
| Year: |
1959 |
| Director: |
Don Weis |
| Producer: |
Phillip A. Waxman |
| Screenplay: |
Valentine Davies |
| Notes: |
- Retitled overseas as “Drum Crazy”
- Gene Krupa performs the drums on both the soundtrack, and for the film sequences in which Mineo, as Gene, is shown playing the drums
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| Cast |
| Sal Mineo |
as |
Gene Krupa |
| Susan Kohner |
as |
Ethel Maguire |
| James Darren |
as |
Eddie Sirota |
| Susan Oliver |
as |
Dorissa Dinell |
| Yvonne Craig |
as |
Gloria Corregio |
| Lawrence Dobkin |
as |
Speaker Willis |
| Celia Lovsky |
as |
Mother |
| John Bleifer |
as |
Father |
| Bobby Troup |
as |
Tommy Dorsey |
| Shelly Manne |
as |
Davey Tough |
| Anita O’Day |
as |
Herself |
| Red Nichols |
as |
Himself |
| Ruby Lane |
as |
Blues Singer |
| Gavin MacLeod |
as |
Ted Krupa |
| Buddy Lester |
as |
Himself |
| Synopsis |
|
The early development of jazz drummer Gene Krupa is chronicled in this somewhat fictionalized musical biography. |
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