Orchestra Wives

In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot involves small-town girl Ann Rutherford, who impulsively marries George Montgomery, a trumpeter in the Miller band. Rutherford soon finds that she isn't particularly suited for ...more

The best reason to watch Orchestra Wives today -- in fact, the only reason to do so -- is the music, especially "I've Got a Girl in Kalamazoo," performed to the hilt here by Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton (Betty's sister), and the Modernaires. 20th Century Fox, who had Glenn Miller and band under contract, knew what they were doing -- no reason to spend money on such niceties as script and good actors when the kids came only to listen to Miller and his crew. The bandleader had been supporting the ...more