[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Bio Movies

[Marty Nichols]

Interesting subject! Makes me wonder why these movies
  usually include so many faux pas.  I thought Jimmy Stewart's Miller was OK, and that Miller was considered an all- round great guy. Apparently there are some who disagree.
   
  I read the bio of Tommy Dorsey that came out a while back. Is the author a Levin, or Levinsky? Sorry about that. But the book should be made into a movie.  Very little has been common knowledge about Dorsey that is hinted at in the bio.
  His death had many questions left unanswered, i.e., his note found in his bedroom that seemed to imply those close to him were after his money. I couldn't believe how many times Tommy is said to have smashed Jimmies saxophones. Gulp!
   
  On another note- I found the "Benny Goodman Story" to be condescending toward Kid Ory; seeming to make him into someone Benny (played by Steve Allen) shoved aside, when Ory supposedly came to see Goodman in order to say hello to an old friend. It rather "radiated" IMO.
   
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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:21:42 +0100
From: "pat ladd" <pj.ladd at btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz Bio Movies
To: "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>>

Hi Richard,

agree totally, but that particular sequence is pretty good and that
 there 
are not that many film clips of the musicians of the dat floating
 around. 
Orchestra Wives and Sun Valley Serenade and The Dorsey brothers etc.,
 are as 
close as most people got to the `real` thing. Never mind the plot,
 listen to 
the band.