The Glenn Miller Story Page #2

Synopsis: 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. Duting the 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.
Director(s): Anthony Mann
Production: Universal Pictures
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
APPROVED
Year:
1954
115 min
315 Views


I'm with Pollack and we're leavin' tomorrow.

Now, honestly, I...

(Chummy) Glenn, come on, hurry it up.

I'll see you later, then.

Gee, there's a lot I want to tell you.

- Glenn, wait a minute...

- I'll be out right after I finish work. Bye.

Glenn? Hello?

Well, honestly.

- Hi, Dad.

- Going out, Helen?

This is a new wrinkle, isn't it?

Ed keeping you waiting.

It isn't Ed tonight.

It's a man I haven't seen for years.

Not Ed? What's happened?

It must be serious for you

to break a date with Ed.

No, Mother. Glenn isn't my type.

I guess I'm just too practical

or unromantic or something.

I want a man like Ed who's got a factory

or a store or something solid.

I certainly don't want

a wandering nomad like Glenn Miller.

What's he do, this Glenn Miller?

I don't really know except he said

he was in Denver for overnight.

He's gonna pick me up after work.

He must be a hard worker.

It's nearly 9:
00 now.

It is?

Well.

(Clock strikes)

Oh! There's really no excuse for this!

The least he could've done was phone.

- Unless he was in an accident.

- Call him.

How can I? I don't know where he is.

If I'm going hunting in the morning,

I've gotta get to bed.

Sam's picking me up at the crack of dawn.

- Doesn't look as if he's coming tonight.

- It certainly doesn't!

Even if he did come, I wouldn't see him.

Then we can all go to bed?

Well, so much for Mr Glenn Miller.

I'll never see him again.

(Glenn, calling softly) Helen?

Helen?

(Whistles)

Helen?

Helen!

(Whistles)

Helen! (Whistles)

- Oh, there you are.

- Glenn Miller, you go away.

I don't want to go away.

I came to see you. We have a date.

- Shh! You'll wake up the neighbourhood.

- How can I talk to you?

You keep quiet. I'll be right down.

Hello, Helen.

What's the matter with you,

coming at this hour?

I told you I'd come out after work.

I got here as quick as I could.

- Shh. Be quiet.

- You haven't changed a bit, have you?

Just as feisty as ever, and just as pretty too.

I must be pretty! Wearing this kimono

and my hair up in curlers.

Is that what they are? Come on, sit down.

- It's cold out here.

- Come on. It's a beautiful night.

Gee.

There. I bought you a present

for your birthday.

My birthday?

That isn't until next November.

This is for your last birthday.

Why, they're beautiful!

But I can't accept a present like this.

Why not? They're not real.

I wish they were.

I got 'em out in Los Angeles in a pa...

In a, uh... A, uh...

I'll get you some real ones someday.

Honestly.

Two years and not a word

and then a present like this.

You know, with some people

you don't have to write. You just know.

- I knew you'd be here.

- Oh, you did?

Sure. I knew you'd be just the same.

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Valentine Davies

Valentine Loewi Davies (August 25, 1905 – July 23, 1961) was an American film and television writer, producer, and director. His film credits included Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Chicken Every Sunday (1949), It Happens Every Spring (1949), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), and The Benny Goodman Story (1955). He was nominated for the 1954 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Glenn Miller Story. Davies was born in New York City, served in the Coast Guard, and graduated from the University of Michigan where he developed his writing skill with a column in the Michigan Daily and honed his skills further as a graduate student at Yale Drama School. He walked away from his family's successful real estate business in New York and moved to Hollywood to become a screenwriter. He wrote a number of Broadway plays and was president of the Screen Writers Guild and general chairman of the Academy Awards program. He wrote the story for the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, which was given screen treatment by the director, George Seaton. Davies also did a novelization of the story, which was published as a novella by Harcourt Brace & Company in conjunction with the film release. Miracle on 34th Street earned him an Academy Award for Best Story. From 1949-50, he served as President of the Screen Writers Guild. He died in 1961 at his home in Malibu, California when he was fifty-five years old. His secretary at the time of his death, Marian Saphro, recalled many years later that her boss died in the midst of a heavy laugh. The Valentine Davies Award was established in 1962, the year following his death, by the Writers Guild of America, West, in his honor. It has been awarded annually, excepting the years 2006, 2010, and 2015. more…

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