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Music for Millions Directed by Henry Koster Produced by Joe Pasternak Written by Myles Connolly
Jimmy Durante
June AllysonStarring Margaret O'Brien Music by Michel Michelet Cinematography Robert Surtees Editing by Douglass Biggs Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Release date(s) December 18, 1944 Running time 115 min. Country United States Language English Music for Millions is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster.[1] It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1946.[2]
Contents
Plot
"Mike" (Margaret O'Brien), age 6, arrives in New York to stay with her sister Barbara Ainsworth (June Allyson), who lived together with a group of girls, her co-players in a symphony orchestra. As the orchestra prepares to go on a tour of army camps, a telegram is received informing them of the death of Barbara's soldier husband. The girls decide to keep it from her until after her baby is born.[3]
Cast
- Margaret O'Brien as Mike
- José Iturbi as Himself
- Jimmy Durante as Andrews
- June Allyson as Barbara Ainsworth
- Marsha Hunt as Rosalind
- Hugh Herbert as Uncle Ferdinand
- Harry Davenport as Doctor
- Marie Wilson as Marie
- Larry Adler as Larry
- Ben Lessy as Kickebush
- Connie Gilchrist as Travelers Aid Woman
- Katharine Balfour as Elsa
- Helen Gilbert as Helen
- Mary Parker as Anita
- Madeleine Lebeau as Jane
- Ethel Griffies as Mrs. McGuff
- Eddie Jackson as Singer
- Jack Roth as Drummer
Soundtrack
- Clair de Lun
- Music by Claude Debussy
- Performed by Larry Adler on harmonica
- Also performed by José Iturbi on piano
- Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (The New World): 4th movement
- Music by Antonín Dvorák
- Conducted by José Iturbi
- Piano Concerto in A Minor
- Music by Edvard Grieg
- Performed by José Iturbi
- The March of the Toys
- from Babes in Toyland
- Music by Victor Herbert
- Waltz in E Minor
- Music by Frédéric Chopin
- Performed by José Iturbi
- Hallelujah Chorus
- from The Messiah
- Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
- Toscanini, Iturbi and Me
- Written by Harold Spina, Walter Bullock and Jimmy Durante
- At Sundown
- Written by Walter Donaldson
- Umbriago[4]
- Written by Jimmy Durante and Irving Caesar
- Jam Session
- Music by Calvin Jackson
References
- ^ Variety film review; December 13, 1944, page 8.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037104/awards
- ^ Harrison's Reports film review; December 16, 1944, page 203.
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxZVucmud8A
External links
- Music for Millions at the Internet Movie Database
- Music for Millions at AllRovi
- Music for Millions at the TCM Movie Database
Films directed by Henry Koster 1930s Three Smart Girls (1936) · One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) · The Rage of Paris (1938) · Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939) · First Love (1939)1940s Spring Parade (1940) · It Started with Eve (1941) · Between Us Girls (1942) · Music for Millions (1944) · Two Sisters from Boston (1946) · The Unfinished Dance (1947) · The Bishop's Wife (1947) · The Luck of the Irish (1948) · Come to the Stable (1949) · The Inspector General (1949)1950s Wabash Avenue (1950) · My Blue Heaven (1950) · Harvey (1950) · No Highway in the Sky (1951) · Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951) · Elopement (1951) · Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) · My Cousin Rachel (1952) · The Robe (1953) · Désirée (1954) · A Man Called Peter (1955) · The Virgin Queen (1955) · Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955) · D-Day the Sixth of June (1956) · The Power and the Prize (1956) · My Man Godfrey (1957) · Fräulein (1958) · The Naked Maja (1958)1960s The Story of Ruth (1960) · Flower Drum Song (1961) · Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) · Take Her, She's Mine (1963) · Dear Brigitte (1965) · The Singing Nun (1966)Categories:- American films
- English-language films
- Musical film stubs
- 1944 films
- 1940s comedy films
- 1940s musical films
- American comedy-drama films
- American musical comedy films
- Films directed by Henry Koster
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
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