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Release Date: 1942

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

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

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

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