As they say in the credits, they did play around with the history a bit. Cosme McMoon knew FFJ socially before he became her pianist, and it seems likely that there was no audition. This makes me wonder how much of the story as per the film was truth, and how much was fiction.
shareEverything is fiction. Cosme was born in Mexico. He moved to NYC when he was 19. I doubt that St Clair was English but more to the point - FFJ was 76 - seventy-six years old when she gave the Carnegie Hall concert. Nothing in the film is real.
shareOh God, feel a Trump coming on...Wrong!
Why waste time arguing over the arrangement of the vegetables at the table, for the meat and potatoes were spot on, that being Jenkins, her husband, her accompanist, the events that led up to her performance at Carnegie and MOSTLY, the music and her singing.
For the license the film took, far more was accurate and the film touched on details that were really much larger truthful accounts.
FYI bunodutch, they did make FFJ a decade younger in the film, but that was because Hugh Grant was willing to play a character in his sixties, but not in his seventies.
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