Music for Millions

Music for Millions
Music for Millions
Directed by Henry Koster
Produced by Joe Pasternak
Written by Myles Connolly
Jimmy Durante
June Allyson
Starring Margaret O'Brien
Music by Michel Michelet
Cinematography Robert Surtees
Editing by Douglass Biggs
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) December 18, 1944
Running time 115 min.
Country United States
Language English

Music for Millions is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster.[1] It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1946.[2]

Contents

Plot

"Mike" (Margaret O'Brien), age 6, arrives in New York to stay with her sister Barbara Ainsworth (June Allyson), who lived together with a group of girls, her co-players in a symphony orchestra. As the orchestra prepares to go on a tour of army camps, a telegram is received informing them of the death of Barbara's soldier husband. The girls decide to keep it from her until after her baby is born.[3]

Cast

Soundtrack

  • Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (The New World): 4th movement
  • Hallelujah Chorus
    • from The Messiah
    • Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
  • Umbriago[4]
    • Written by Jimmy Durante and Irving Caesar

References

  1. ^ Variety film review; December 13, 1944, page 8.
  2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037104/awards
  3. ^ Harrison's Reports film review; December 16, 1944, page 203.
  4. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxZVucmud8A

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