Steve Allen Donna Reed Gene Krupa Lionel Hampton Ben Pollack Teddy Wilson Edward "Kid" Ory Harry James Martha Tilton Ziggy Elman
Cinematography
William H. Daniels
Edited by
Russell Schoengarth
Music by
Joseph Gershenson Henry Mancini Sol Yaged Alan Harding Harold Brown
Distributed by
Universal-International
Release date
February 2, 1956 (1956-02-02)
Running time
116 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$2.7 million (US)[1]
The Benny Goodman Story is a 1956 American musical biographical film starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, written and directed by Valentine Davies, and released by Universal-International. The film was intended as a follow-up to Universal's 1954 hit The Glenn Miller Story, dramatizing a popular bandleader's life.
The film captures several major moments in Goodman's life but it has been described as less than accurate in details.[2] Goodman's Jewish background is mentioned only implicitly, despite its playing a part in his artistic and personal endeavors for decades. In one scene, where his mother tries to talk him out of a romance with Alice Hammond (played by Donna Reed), whom Goodman eventually married, she says, "Bagels and caviar don't mix."
^'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1956', Variety Weekly, January 2, 1957
^"The Benny Goodman Story". IMDB. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
and 22 Related for: The Benny Goodman Story information
TheBennyGoodmanStory is a 1956 American musical biographical film starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, written and directed by Valentine Davies, and...
1950 TCB 2005) Music portal Jazz portal TheBennyGoodmanStory Collier, in his book BennyGoodman and the Swing Era (page 164), listed both a "McFadden's...
two films. In TheBennyGoodmanStory (1955) she asks for an autograph and in Istanbul (1957) she appears as a flight attendant near the film's end. During...
Excuse My Dust, Island in the Sky, TheBennyGoodmanStory, Kelly and Me, Joe Butterfly, My Man Godfrey (1957), I Bury the Living, Sunrise at Campobello...
year. Goodman later recorded the song again, this time with vocalist Martha Tilton, for the soundtrack of the 1956 biopic TheBennyGoodmanStory. It has...
playing Native American Sacagawea; TheBennyGoodmanStory (1956) with Steve Allen at Universal, playing Goodman's wife; Ransom! (1956) at MGM as Glenn...
Every Spring (1949), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), and TheBennyGoodmanStory (1955). He won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Story for Miracle on 34th...
period. She is best known for her 1939 recording of "And the Angels Sing" with BennyGoodman. Tilton was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States...
drummer and bandleader from the mid-1920s through the swing era. His eye for talent led him to employ musicians such as BennyGoodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn...
from Teddy Wilson, BennyGoodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall...
The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and TheBennyGoodmanStory (1955)". "Once we accept a semantic change from singing to playing the clarinet, TheBenny Goodman...
Story (for which he received his first Academy Award nomination), TheBennyGoodmanStory and Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. His first hit as a pop songwriter...
of the most influential drummers in the history of popular music. His drum solo on BennyGoodman's 1937 recording of "Sing, Sing, Sing" elevated the role...
Margaret Cho – Angie Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – Nightwatch Marion Cotillard – TheStory of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed Tony Curran – Being Human Claire Danes...
The BennyGoodmanStory (1956) Star in the Dust (1956) Pillars of the Sky (1956) The Mole People (1956) Battle Hymn (1957) Gun for a Coward (1957) The Incredible...
(1955) as Austin Stoker The Night Holds Terror (1955) as Detective Pope TheBennyGoodmanStory (1956) as Murph Podolsky The Steel Jungle (1956) as Truckdriver...
professionally as Ziggy Elman, was an American jazz trumpeter associated with BennyGoodman, though he also led his own group, Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra. Elman...
acting as Willard Alexander in TheBennyGoodmanStory (1956) and directing Chamber of Horrors (1966), Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968), I...
Lane (1949) TheBennyGoodmanStory (1956) The Big Circus (1959) College Confidential (1960) Warning Shot (1967) Where Were You When the Lights Went Out...
Paul Mescal – The Lost Daughter Louise Wong – Anita Rachel Zegler - West Side Story From 2016 onward, the category was shifted from the Critics' Choice...
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible 2. Domestically in North America, Gladiator...
Global Information