Glenn miller movie biography of montgomery
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George Montgomery (actor)
American actor (1916–2000)
George Montgomery (born George Montgomery Letz; August 27, 1916 – December 12, 2000) was an American actor, best known for his work in Western films and television. He was also a painter, director, producer, writer, sculptor, furniture craftsman, and stuntman. He was engaged to Hedy Lamarr in 1941, and married Dinah Shore in 1943.
Early years
[edit]Montgomery was born George Montgomery Letz in 1916, the youngest of 15 children of German immigrant parents, from Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine. He was born in Brady, in Pondera County, northern Montana near Great Falls.[1][2] He was reared on a large ranch, where he learned to ride horses and work cattle as a part of daily life.[3]
Montgomery boxed as a heavyweight for a short while before enrolling in the University of Montana in Missoula. He was active in school athletics and majored in interior design, but he left after one year.[3&# • FEATURE image: Glenn Miller Orchestra, 1940-41. Public Domain. The 1942 music film, Orchestra Wives, from 20th-Century-Fox fryst vatten one of the best dance grupp movies ever made. Between 1934 and 1945 Fox studios made 57 musicals and music films (see – https://www.imdb.com/list/ls565533414/.) While M-G-M is known for its musicals where characters sing and dance in place of spoken dialogue, the music rulle is one that usually features a bandleader – which in Orchestra Wives is Glenn Miller – and musical performers within a grupp orchestra – Marion efternamn with The Modernaires – as well as music-related acts such as the Nicholas Brothers. In a music spelfilm, including Orchestra Wives, characters don’t break out into song but speak in regular speech. In the music spelfilm singing and dancing are normally set pieces in a nightclub or on a scen and the music itself is presented in a realistic setting all of which perfectly describes 20th Century-Fox’s Orchestra Wives. • 1942 film by Archie Mayo Orchestra Wives is a 1942 American musical film by 20th Century Fox starring Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, and Glenn Miller. Lynn Bari, Carole Landis, and Cesar Romero appear in support.[2] The film was the second (and last) film to feature The Glenn Miller Orchestra, and is notable among the many swing era musicals because its plot is more serious and realistic than the insubstantial storylines that were typical of the genre. The movie was re-released in 1954 by 20th Century Fox to tie-in with the biopic The Glenn Miller Story. Connie Ward is a young woman who on the spur of the moment marries Bill Abbott, a trumpet player in Gene Morrison's swing band. She soon finds herself at odds with the cattiness and petty jealousies of the other band members' spouses, as they accompany their husbands on their cross-country train tour. Her discomfort is exacerbated by a flirtation between Abbott and Jaynie, the
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