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Release Date: 1942

Cast: Harry Morgan, Marion Hutton, Lynn Bari, Carole Landis, Harold Nicholas, Cesar Romero, George Montgomery, Mary Beth Hughes, Fayard Nicholas, Frank Orth, Virginia Gilmore, Ann Rutherford ...MORE

Cast: Harry Morgan, Marion Hutton, Lynn Bari, Carole Landis, Harold Nicholas, Cesar Romero, George Montgomery, Mary Beth Hughes, Fayard Nicholas, Frank Orth, Virginia Gilmore, Ann Rutherford, Tamara Geva ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Backstage Musical, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Musical, Musical Drama

Orchestra Wives is a 1942 American musical film by 20th Century Fox starring Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, and Glenn Miller. 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 (Rutherford) is a young woman who marries Bill Abbott (Montgomery), a trumpet player in Gene Morrison's... MORE

Orchestra Wives is a 1942 American musical film by 20th Century Fox starring Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, and Glenn Miller. 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 (Rutherford) is a young woman who marries Bill Abbott (Montgomery), a trumpet player in Gene Morrison's (Miller) swing band (Miller's character was given a name with initials that matched Miller's so that the band could use their monogrammed stainless-steel bandstands). She soon finds herself at odds with the cattiness and petty jealousies of the other band members' spouses. Her discomfort is exacerbated by a flirtation between Abbott and Jaynie (Bari), the band's female vocalist. When Ward eventually walks out on Abbott, their split releases so many other tensions among the musicians and their wives, leader Morrison is forced to break up the orchestra. Ward and the band's pianist Sinjin (Romero) then work LESS