Naive groupie Ann Rutherford falls for the rather dense trumpet player George Montgomery a member of the Glenn Miller Band which in this film is for some reason is called the Gene Morrison Band. Instead of just sleeping with the guy and getting him out of her system she ends up marrying him instead. This brings her into conflict with the other wives of the band who turn out to be a bunch of back stabbing women. And so it goes with the plot of this film.
Ann Rutherford played Scarlett O'Hara's sister in Gone With The Wind and was in the popular Andy Hardy series as Mickey Rooney's girlfriend. George Montgomery the trumpet player was never a big star but had a long career in B-movies. The rest of the cast is interesting, glamour girl Carole Landis, Cesar Romero probably best remembered as The Joker in the Batman TV series, Jackie Gleason and especially the very talented Nicholas Brothers who dance up a storm in the final number.
Frankly, if it wasn't for the interesting cast and the great Glenn Miller music this film would probably be something of an ordeal to sit through. The private lives of a touring big band musicians aren't that interesting or I should say as presented in this story not interesting at all.
Still the music is great.
Written by Karl Tunberg and Darrell Ware, the running time 98 minutes.
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