LoginThe Benny Goodman Story - Region 1 DVD
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THE JAZZ CLARINETIST AND BANDLEADER'S STORY INCLUDES HISBOYHOOD, HIS SWEETHEART AND HIS SWING-ERA FRAME.
It lacks the tragic ending of The Glenn Miller Story, a smash hit released a year earlier, but this enjoyable musical biopic does a nice job of blending Benny Goodman's sweet swinging clarinet with a healthy dose of Hollywood hokum. The emphasis is on Goodman's struggle to get "hot music" into the mainstream, and his shy wooing of a socialite (Donna Reed). With Steve Allen cast as the bespectacled Goodman, there's a comic undertone to the bandleader's somewhat geeky demeanor, and Allen (a musician himself) is beli
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Release date: 4 March 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780783278988 UPC: 025192263620
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Release date: 4 March 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780783278988 UPC: 025192263620
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