JAMES STEWART JUNE ALLYSON CHARLES DRAKE LOUIS ARMSTRONG
and HARRY MORGAN
star in
A film by Anthony Mann
THE GLENN MILLER STORY
The Genius who turned Brass into Gold.
VHS - PAL - NEW - Never played!! - G-rated - Colour - 1954-release - 108-minutes - Biography, Drama, Music - Original VHS release in Australia - Large box
The unemployed trombone player Glenn Miller is always broken, chasing his sound to form his band and hocking his instrument in the pawn house to survive.
When his friend Chummy MacGregor is hired to play in the band of Ben Pollack, the band-leader listens to one Glenn's composition and invites him to join his band.
While traveling to New York, Glenn visits his former girlfriend Helen Berger, in Boulder, Colorado, and asks her to wait for him.
Two years later he quits the band and proposes Helen that moves to New York to marry him.
After the success of "Moonlight Serenade", Glenn Miller's band becomes worldwide known and Glenn and Helen and their two children have a very comfortable life.
During World War II, Glenn enlists in the army and travels to Europe to increase the moral of the allied troops.
In the Christmas of 1944, he travels from London to Paris for a concert to be broadcast; however his plane is never found in the tragic flight.
This movie is a great movie about Glen Miller and his music.
Jimmy Stewart does a superb playing the part of Glen Miller.
June Allyson and Henry Morgan do great in this movie as well.
You get to see and hear some great musicians like Louie Armstrong.
You also get to hear lots of Glen Miller music like "Little Brown Jug," "Moonlight Serenade," "Pennsylvania 6-5000," "In the Mood," "String of Pearls." "America Patrol," and more.
One of my favorite parts in the movie is when Glen Miller and the band are in England playing "In the Mood" and a German V-1 buzz bomb flies by and explodes. Everone runs for cover except for the band, they continued to play.