Sun Valley Serenade

Sun Valley Serenade
Theatrical release poster
Directed byH. Bruce Humberstone
Screenplay byRobert Ellis
Helen Logan
Story byArt Arthur
Robert Harari
Produced byMilton Sperling
StarringSonja Henie
John Payne
Milton Berle
Glenn Miller
Lynn Bari
CinematographyEdward Cronjager
Edited byJames B. Clark
Music byDavid Buttolph
Cyril J. Mockridge
Emil Newman
Production
company
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox
Release date
  • August 21, 1941 (1941-08-21)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ Solomon, Aubrey (2002). Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 219. ISBN 978-08-1084-244-1.