[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Bio Movies

[Richard Broadie]

I just posted a similar message before I read yours, Jack.  You put it much 
better than I did.  Good job!  Dick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. D. Bryce" <brycejo at comcast.net>
To: "Richard Broadie" <rbroadie at dc.rr.com>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz Bio Movies


> Actually, Steve Allen played Benny Goodman.  Jimmy Stweart played Glenn
> Miller.  But your point is well made.  Neither Goodman nor Miller were the
> nice guys portrayed in their biographies.
>
> I spoken to musicians who worked with them and to put is mildly, Goodman 
> was
> an SOB and Miller was a caustic martinet. Tommy Dorsey was a nasty one 
> too,
> but I've knew a guy from Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra (Charlie Frazier) who 
> said
> that Jimmy was a sweet guy who never really wanted to run a band.
>
> Jack Bryce
> One of the Sheik's minions
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Broadie" <rbroadie at dc.rr.com>
> To: "Jack Bryce" <brycejo at comcast.net>
> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 6:56 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz Bio Movies
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Worst movie of all time: Nat Cole in the WC Handy story.  Jazz is
> acceptable
>> at end when St. Louis Blues is played without a trace of jazz by  39,253
>> symphonic musicians.  Well maybe the count was a bit exxagerated but
>> certainly close enough for jazz.
>>
>> Dick Broadie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "pat ladd" <pj.ladd at btinternet.com>
>> To: "Dick Broadie" <rbroadie at dc.rr.com>
>> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:53 AM
>> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Miller Story
>>
>>
>> > Glen Miller Story on TV yesterday and I just caught the bit where Jimmy
>> > Stewart and June Allyson go to the cellar bar to hear Louis. What a
> great
>> > line up and a lovely touch with Teagarden grinning from ear to ear
> handing
>> > his trombone over to Stewart to sit in.
>> >
>> > Great stuff . I had forgotten how good it was.
>> >
>> > Pat
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