Show j FACTS GUIDE FILMING U IL-U G OF 1 TilE TIIE GI GLENN MILLER 1 STORY I The Glenn MU Miller Story Story Universal Universal- Internationals International's Technicolor production of of the great bandleaders bandleader's story life playing at the Egyptian Theatre Sunday and Monday is one of the most factual biographies ever filmed Of the top 27 speaking roles In the picture only three are arc fictional fictional-a a pawnshop pawnshop pawnshop pawn pawn- shop operator a girl singer and an Army officer Producer Aaron Rosenberg who gathered together almost all of the actual actual ac actual ac- ac personalities who shared in the 20 last years of Millers Miller's career says We used three fictional characters only because we couldn't run down the identification of people Actually they do represent real-life real persons I Those three were the pawn shop owner where Miller actually hocked his trombone before getting his first big chance with Ben Pollack's band in 1925 a a. girl si singer ger whose lackadaisical style spoiled spelled the public debut of or Millers Miller's celebrated Moonlight Serenade and the officer in the Army dispatchers dispatcher's office at Orly Field France who first revealed that Major Glenn Miller was missing on that ill fated military flight across the English Channel in December December December Decem Decem- ber 1944 IJames I IJames James Stewart the popular choice of I j jMiller Miller fans for the title role plays Glenn I j Miller with June Allyson starring co-starring as 1 his wife Helen Charles Drake portrays portrays' Don Haymes Millers Miller's manager and I IDon Henry Morgan acts the role of Chummy MacGregor Millers Miller's playing piano pal The real-life real Haynes assisted on the I I script and MacGregor acted as technical advisor Ben Pollack the bandleader I Gene Krupa Louis Armstrong Frances I Ii i Langford The Archie Savage Dancers i and The make appearances In the picture as themselves Real-life Real Glenn Miller effects used In InThe InThe inThe The Glenn Miller Story include an exact copy of Millers Miller's rimless eyeglasses I. I the maestros maestro's own trombone and the Miller Orchestra music stands I I o |