Old Books and Movies

 This is a very good biopic film on Glenn Miller.  Jimmy Stewart plays Glenn Miller, an out-of-a-job trombone player, who is always trying to sell his arrangements to bands.  Glenn and his best friend pianist, Chummy MacGregor (Harry Morgan) try out for Ben Pollack's band, and Glenn decides to not bring his trombone to the try-out, but to try to sell his arrangement to Pollack, but is turned down.  Pollack changes his mind and hires them, when he hears the arrangement, after Chummy slips it to an auditioning musician.  When Pollack's band is scheduled to preform in Denver, Colorado, Glenn calls up Helen Burger (June Allyson) (a girl he last saw two years ago) and asks for a date.    Helen barely remembers him, but agrees to go on a date.. and waits up till midnight waiting for him to come.  Glenn does come... in the middle of the night; Helen is at first furious, but not for long.  Glenn tells Helen of his dream to have his own band with his...

   This is a very fun movie. The plot is rather silly, but the music is marvelous.  Phil Corey (Glenn Miller) and his band The Dartmouth Troubadours (The Glenn Miller Orchestra), audition and are hired to play at Sun Valley with singer Vivian Dawn (Lynn Bari) after she walks out on the band she was singing with when they refused to play the way she wanted them to.  At the audition Glenn and his band play "Moonlight Serenade," and Vivian Dawn sings "I Know Why (and So Do You)" with them.   The bands pianist,Ted Scott (John Payne) makes a date with Vivian.  Due to a publicity stunt that the band's manager/publicity agent, Jerome K. 'Nifty' Allen (Milton Berle) cooked up, Ted is responsible for a war refugee.  The band arrive at Ellis Island to pick up what they think is going to be a small child... and it turns out to be an adult, Norway refugee Karen Benson (Sonja Henie).  Glenn and his band play "In the Mood."  Much to his chagrin Karin tells...