He was a protégé of Paderewski, the legendary Polish pianist, who said that someday this boy would take his place. But this boy became a parody. Poor Liberace. He may have cried, as he liked to quip, ...

In Behind the Candelabra, the first time we encounter Michael Douglas’ Liberace is, naturally, on stage, treating his Vegas audience to a little bit of the boogie-woogie. He deftly carries the jaunty ...

Sequins sparkled, electric bulbs on the candelabra twinkled like ships at night; spotlights made the orchestra blush red for de Falla, blue for Debussy; and a BBC TV camera darted forward for ...

Chloe Won heard his name for the first time during a piano lesson gone wrong. When the then-13-year-old student made a fluttery wrist flourish, her music teacher rapped the back of her head with a ...

THE STORIES LIBERACE TOLD ABOUT HIMSELF were nothing like the one Steven Soderbergh told in HBO’s biopic Behind The Candelabra. The new film, which focuses on the relationship between the flamboyant ...

This month sees the centennial of Wladziu Valentino Liberace, born in Wisconsin on May 16, 1919, a piano prodigy who, from the 1940s until his 1987 death, fashioned a startling level of musical and ...

Ahead of Steven Soderbergh’s film Behind the Candelabra, which debuts on HBO next week and tells the love story of Liberace (Michael Douglas) and his boy-toy lover Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), a primer ...

American pianist, entertainer and West Allis native, Liberace. Liberace is arguably one of Wisconsin's most famous sons. He was a pianist, singer and television pioneer. At the height of his career, ...