[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Bio Movies

[David Richoux]

I think that is what they call in parsing a sentence is a misdirected  
what-chama-call'em - Steve Allen as Benny Goodman was not as good as  
Jimmy Stewart was as Glenn Miller (In Richard's opinion.)

A dangling participle,  I think or something like that... but then, I  
was a C student in High School English.

Dave Richoux

 From imdb.com (by the way)
Glenn Miller Story:
James Stewart...Glenn Miller
June Allyson...Helen Berger Miller
Harry Morgan...Chummy MacGregor (as Henry Morgan)
Charles Drake...Don Haynes
George Tobias...Si Schribman
Barton MacLane...Gen. Hap Arnold, USAAF
Sig Ruman...W. Kranz (pawnshop owner)
Irving Bacon...Mr. Miller
James Bell...Mr. Burger
Kathleen Lockhart...Mrs. Miller
Katherine Warren...Mrs. Burger (as Katharine Warren)
Frances Langford...Herself
Louis Armstrong...Himself
Ben Pollack...Himself
Gene Krupa...Himself

Benny Goodman Story:
Steve Allen...Benny Goodman
Donna Reed...Alice Hammond
Berta Gersten...Dora Goodman
Barry Truex...Benny Goodman (at 16)
Herbert Anderson...John Hammond Jr.
Robert F. Simon...Dave Goodman
Hy Averback...Willard Alexander
Sammy Davis Sr....Fletcher Henderson
Dick Winslow...Gil Rodin
Shepard Menken...Harry Goodman (as Shep Menken)
Jack Kruschen...Charles 'Murph' Podolsky
Wilton Graff...John Hammond Sr.
Fred Essler...Prof Schoepp
David Kasday...Benny Goodman (at 10)
John Erman...Harry Goodman (at 16) (as John M. Erman)
George Givot...Little Jake Primo
Lionel Hampton...Himself
Gene Krupa...Himself
Ben Pollack...Himself
Teddy Wilson...Himself
Kid Ory...Himself (as Edward 'Kid' Ory)
Harry James...Himself


On Jul 26, 2007, at 5:46 PM, <bennyth at att.net> <bennyth at att.net> wrote:

> Richard - Just curious - But, didn't Jimmy Stewart play the Glenn  
> Miller part, and Steve Allen,  Benny Goodman?  Benny...........
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Broadie"  
> <rbroadie at dc.rr.com>
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>> It's such a shame that that movie (as virtually all movie jazz  
>> bios) had so little to do with the real Glenn Miller who was not  
>> nearly as nice a person as the one Steve Allen portrayed.  I could  
>> ramble on for about 8 hours here but just want to open the door a  
>> crack.
>>