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Sun Valley Serenade
Sun Valley Serenade movie poster
Directed by	H. Bruce Humberstone
Produced by	Milton Sperling
Written by	Robert Ellis (screenplay) Helen Logan (screenplay) Art Arthur (story) Robert Harari (story)
Starring	Sonja Henie, John Payne Milton Berle Glenn Miller Lynn Bari
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox
Release date(s)	August 21, 1941
Running time	86 min
Language	English
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Sun Valley Serenade (1941) is a musical film starring Sonja Henie, Lynn Bari, John Payne, and Milton Berle. It features The Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge.

Synopsis

Ted Scott (Payne) is a band pianist whose publicity manager decides that, for good press, the band should adopt a foreign refugee. The band goes to Ellis Island to meet the girl and soon discovers that the refugee isn't a 10-year-old child, but a young woman, Karen Benson (Henie). The surprise comes right before the band is to travel to Sun Valley, Idaho for a Christmas gig. While on the ski slopes Ted soon falls for Karen's inventive schemes to win the heart of her new sponsor, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Vivian Dawn (Bari), a soloist with the band. Vivian promptly quits the band out of jealousy, and Karen stages an elaborate ice show as a substitute.

Of particular note is the "Chattanooga Choo Choo" song and dance scene by Dorothy Dandridge and The Nicholas Brothers. This scene begins in the practice studio with the Glenn Miller Orchestra practicing "Chattanooga Choo Choo". The scene includes two choruses of the song sung by Tex Beneke in a musical exchange with the The Modernaires. In a scene transition that incorporates no introduction or integration with the practice studio or other actors, Dandridge and The Nicholas Brothers begin singing and dancing in a railway station set.

Sun Valley Serenade is the first of the only two movies featuring The Glenn Miller Orchestra (the other is 1942's Orchestra Wives). Besides "Chattanooga Choo Choo", other Glenn Miller tunes in the film are "Moonlight Serenade", "It Happened in Sun Valley", "I Know Why (and So Do You)", and "In the Mood".

Cast listing

Screenings

The film is shown every weekend at the Sun Valley Opera House in Sun Valley Idaho where the movie was filmed, and on a dedicated TV channel in the Sun Valley Lodge 24 hours a day.^[1]

Award nominations

Academy Awards

• Nominated: Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Edward Cronjager (1942)
• Nominated: Best Music, Original Song for "Chattanooga Choo Choo" Harry Warren (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics) (1942)
• Nominated: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, Emil Newman (1942)

References

External links

• Sun Valley Serenade at the Internet Movie Database
• Sun Valley Serenade at Allmovie
• Sun Valley Serenade at Rotten Tomatoes

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