Sun Valley Serenade

Infobox_Film
name = Sun Valley Serenade


caption = Sun Valley Serenade movie poster
director = H. Bruce Humberstone
writer = Robert Ellis (screenplay)
Helen Logan (screenplay)
Art Arthur (story)
Robert Harari (story)
starring = Sonja Henie,
John Payne
Milton Berle
Glenn Miller
Lynn Bari
producer = Milton Sperling
production company = Twentieth Century Fox
distributor = Twentieth Century Fox
released = August 21, 1941
runtime = 86 min
language = English
imdb_id = 0034241

"Sun Valley Serenade" is a 1941 film starring Sonja Henie,Lynn Bari, John Payne, and Milton Berle. It features The Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge.

ynopsis

Ted Scott (Payne) is a band pianist whose publicity manager decides that, for good press, the band should adopt a foreign refugee. The band travels to Sun Valley, Idaho to meet the girl and soon discovers that the refugee isn't a 10-year-old child, but a young woman, Karen Benson (Henie). Ted soon becomes smitten by Karen, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Vivian Dawn (Bari), a soloist with the band. Vivian promptly quits the band out of jealousy, and Karen stages an elaborate ice show as a substitute.

Of particular note is the "Chattanooga Choo Choo" song and dance scene by Dorothy Dandridge and The Nicholas Brothers. This scene begins in the practice studio with the Glenn Miller Orchestra practicing "Chattanooga Choo Choo." The scene includes two choruses of the song sung by Tex Beneke in a musical exchange with the The Modernaires. In a scene transition that incorporates no introduction or integration with the practice studio or other actors, Dandridge and The Nicholas Brothers begin singing and dancing in a railway station set.

"Sun Valley Serenade" is the first of the only two movies featuring The Glenn Miller Orchestra (the other is 1942's "Orchestra Wives"). Besides "Chattanooga Choo Choo," other Glenn Miller tunes in the film are "It Happened in Sun Valley," "I Know Why," and "In the Mood".

Cast listing

creenings

The film is shown every weekend at the Sun Valley Opera House in Sun Valley Idaho where the movie was filmed, and on a dedicated TV channel in the Sun Valley Lodge 24 hours a day. [ [http://cinematreasures.org/theater/4068/ Cinema Treasures, Sun Valley Opera House] ]

Award nominations

Academy Awards
*Nominated: Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Edward Cronjager (1942)
*Nominated: Best Music, Original Song for "Chattanooga Choo Choo" Harry Warren (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics) (1942)
*Nominated: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, Emil Newman (1942)

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0034241|title=Sun Valley Serenade
*amg title|id=1:47666|title=Sun Valley Serenade
*rotten-tomatoes|id=sun_valley_serenade|title=Sun Valley Serenade