Sun Valley Serenade | |
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Directed by | H. Bruce Humberstone |
Screenplay by | Robert Ellis Helen Logan |
Story by | Art Arthur Robert Harari |
Produced by | Milton Sperling |
Starring | Sonja Henie John Payne Milton Berle Glenn Miller Lynn Bari |
Cinematography | Edward Cronjager |
Edited by | James B. Clark |
Music by | David Buttolph Cyril J. Mockridge Emil Newman |
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Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.25 million (rentals)[1] |
Sun Valley Serenade is a 1941 American musical film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle, and Lynn Bari. It features the Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by the Nicholas Brothers. It also features Dorothy Dandridge, performing "Chattanooga Choo Choo", which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996, and was awarded the first Gold Record for sales of 1.2 million. Studio 20th Century Fox re-released the film in 1946 and in 1954 to tie-in with the biopic The Glenn Miller Story.