Saugatuck Red Barn Theatre Movie Night: The Glenn Miller Story

Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Start Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Red Barn Theatre

Category: Saugatuck & Douglas Events

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The Red Barn Theater’s film attraction for November 22 is ‘The Glenn Miller Story,’ a 1954 biopic about the sensationally popular band leader that paired James Stewart and June Allyson for the second time, continuing their string of box office hits that began with ‘The Stratton Story’ in 1949 and ended with 1955’s ‘Strategic Air Command.’

Director Anthony Mann carefully balances the (more or less) true aspects of Miller’s romance with his wife, Helen, and the musician’s struggles from obscurity in the 1920s to the top of the dance band world just as World War II was breaking out. The score, much of it developed by Henry Mancini, who actually played in the Arm Air Force’s Glenn Miller Band in the late 1940s, features most of Miller’s greatest hits, and several stars of the era play themselves: Frances Langford, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa and others.

Everyone will recognize such hits as ‘Little Brown Jug,’ ‘String of Pearls,’ ‘Moonlight Serenade,’ and ten or twelve others with the authentic Miller sound helping to propel the story.

Miller’s death in a plane crash in 1944 halted the output of a creative popular musician, but the band has continued in various guises ever since, fronted by such stars as Ray Eberle and Ray McKinley.

Join host John Hardy at 7 p.m. in front of The Big Screen at The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Suggested donation is $5. Free popcorn from CNJ Popcorn Co. and $1 concessions. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net

Location Details

Red Barn Theatre
63RD & Blue Star Hwy.
Saugatuck Mi 49453

Location Phone: 269-857-5300