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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.
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1956 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did phenomenally well commercially.
The Benny Goodman Story: Benny Goodman: Steve Allen: The Best Things in Life Are Free: Buddy DeSylva: Gordon MacRae: Ray Henderson: Dan Dailey: Lew Brown: Ernest Borgnine: Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer: Daniel Boone: Bruce Bennett: The Eddy Duchin Story: Eddy Duchin: Tyrone Power: The Conqueror: Genghis Khan: John Wayne: Heneral Paua: Heneral Paua ...
A list of American films released in 1955. The United Artists film Marty won the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1955. A–B. Title Director Cast Genre Notes
This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures in 1950–1959, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is the main motion picture production and distribution arm of Universal Studios , a subsidiary of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast .
In 1959, the movie biography The Gene Krupa Story was released; Sal Mineo portrayed Krupa, and the film included cameos by Anita O'Day and Red Nichols. [ 6 ] During the 1950s and 1960s, Krupa often played at the Metropole near Times Square in Manhattan and by 1956 his recordings were showcased on national radio networks by Ben Selvin within the ...
In The Benny Goodman Story (1955) she asks for an autograph [1] and in Istanbul she appears as a flight attendant near the film's end. [ 2 ] During her yearlong reign as Miss Universe, she traveled in the United States and met G. David Schine , a hotel-business heir who was a central figure in the Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954.