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Overview
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Writer:
Valentine Davies (writer)
Release Date:
1956 (Japan) more
Plot:
Bio of swing band leader 'Benny Goodman' from age 10 (1919) to his landmark Carnegie Hall band concert in 1938... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Very enjoyable more (21 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Steve Allen | ... | Benny Goodman |
 | Donna Reed | ... | Alice Hammond |
 | Berta Gersten | ... | Mama Goodman |
| Barry Truex | ... | Benny Goodman (at 16) |
 | Herbert Anderson | ... | John Hammond Jr. |
| Robert F. Simon | ... | Papa Dave Goodman |
| Hy Averback | ... | Willard Alexander - Benny's manager |
| Sammy Davis Sr. | ... | Fletcher Henderson |
| Dick Winslow | ... | Gil Rodin |
| Shepard Menken | ... | Harry Goodman (as Shep Menken) |
| Jack Kruschen | ... | 'Murph' Podolsky - riverboat band Mgr. |
| 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) |
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Runtime:
116 min
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Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved | USA:G (1973)
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Already an accomplished piano player, Steve Allen learned how to play the clarinet for this film. more
Goofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Newspaper article shown that gives Benny Goodman the idea to audition has a typo - "a large baking account" instead of "banking account." This is probably accurate since the company that sponsored the "Let's Dance" show made biscuits. more
Soundtrack:
China Boy more
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If you like the jazz/swing music of yesteryear you will really enjoy this movie. Steve Allen plays the part of Goodman almost like two different people. He is extremely awkward in anything not related to music and unbelievably comfortable where music is involved. This might have been a true representation of Goodman himself. Donna Reed is wonderful. She has the clean cut beauty that you really don't see in many of the female stars of today. I believe many men could fall in love with her. The thing that makes this movie is the music. How often to you get to hear and see the great jazz/swing artists that have parts in the movie. I particularly enjoyed Teddy Wilson. He was a great artist. Although the movie took many liberties on Goodman's life it's typical of this time in Hollywood.