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    • The Gene Krupa Story (also known as Drum Crazy) is a 1959 biopic of American drummer and bandleader Gene Krupa. The conflict in the film centers on Krupa's rise to success and his corresponding use of marijuana. See more

    Release dateDecember 1, 1959 (USA)
    GenreBiography · Drama · Music
    Directed byDon Weis
    Written byOrin Jannings
    Plot

    The young Gene Krupa brings home a set of drums and puts them in the family room. His mother and three of his brothers stand by as his father makes it clear, as he has many times before, that he abhors the idea of Gene pla… See more

    Cast

    Sal Mineo as Gene Krupa
    Susan Kohner as Ethel Maguire
    James Darren as Eddie Sirota
    Susan Oliver as Dorissa Dinell… See more

    Production notes

    Krupa himself played the drums on the soundtrack for the film, and for the sequences in which Mineo, as Gene, plays the drums.
    Considerable liberty was taken with the actual timel… See more

     
  1. Gene Krupa made history with his first record. For a session in 1927 with the McKenzie-Condon Chicagoans, he became the first musician to use a full drum set on records. He was part of the Chicago jazz scene of the 1920s before moving to New York and worked in the studios during the early years of the Depression.
    www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Gene_Krupa.h…
    Eugene Bertram Krupa was born in Chicago’s impoverished South Side in 1909 into a family of Polish immigrants. The youngest of nine children, he was first drawn to jazz when helping out in his brother’s music store when he was about ten years old. He briefly flirted with playing the alto sax, but felt a greater affinity for the drums.
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