1950s American Films

"Louis Armstrong: Glenn, come here, Daddy. Beat out one like you did with Ben Pollack."

"Hey, Glenn! Come on back. Mr. Pollack wants to talk to you. He says your arrangement is a pip!"

"Still got that crazy idea in your head, that sound?"

"James Stewart as Glenn Miller"

"George Tobias as Si Shribman"

"Charles Drake as Don Haynes"

"Barton MacLane as Gen. Henry H. Arnold, USAAF"

"Harry Morgan as Chummy MacGregor"

"When someone really wants something, way inside, and they want it hard enough, they usually get it."

"Did you know that people sleep between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning?"

"Sig Ruman as W Kranz"

"It was a time that changed the world. And one man put it to music."

"Irving Bacon as Mr. Miller"

"Their love made such wonderful music!"

"Marion Ross as Polly Haynes"

"James Bell as Mr. Burger"

"Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Miller"

"June Allyson as Helen Burger Miller"

"Sal Mineo - Ángel Obregón II"

"Rod Taylor - Sir David Karfrey, Lacy's husband"

"Noreen Nash - Lona Lane"

"Paul Fix - Dr. Horace Lynnton, Leslie's father"

"Elsa Cárdenas - Juana Villalobos Benedict, Jordan III's wife"

"Judith Evelyn - Mrs. Nancy Lynnton, Leslie's mother"

"Fran Bennett - Judy Benedict, Leslie and Bick's older daughter"

"Dennis Hopper - Jordan "Jordy" Benedict III, Leslie and Bick's son"

"Earl Holliman - Robert "Bob" Dace, Judy's husband"

"Carolyn Craig - Lacy Lynnton, Leslie's sister"

"Robert Nichols - Mort "Pinky" Snyth, Vashti's husband"

"Jane Withers - Vashti Hake Snyth, the Benedicts' neighbor"

"Chill Wills - Uncle Bawley, Bick's uncle"

"Rock Hudson - Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr."

"Elizabeth Taylor - Leslie Lynnton Benedict"

"James Dean - Jett Rink"

"Mercedes McCambridge - Luz Benedict, Bick's sister"

"See everything in the World worth seeing! Do everything in the World worth doing!"

"Bick Benedict was big, but he was biggest the one day when he crawled."

"Jett Rink was made to get to the top -- so he could have the fun of falling all the way down."

"Carroll Baker - Luz Benedict II, Leslie and Bick's younger daughter"

"Peter Lorre - a steward on the SS Carnatic"

"Gilbert Roland - Achmed Abdullah"

"Uncle Bawley: Bick, you shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill."

"Charles Boyer - Monsieur Gasse, balloonist"

"Charles Coburn - a Hong Kong steamship company clerk"

"Cesar Romero - Abdullah's henchman"

"The legendary epic that's as big as Texas."

"Edward R. Murrow - the prologue narrator"

"Robert Newton - Inspector Fix"

"Noël Coward - Roland Hesketh-Baggott, London employment agency manager"

"Cantinflas - Passepartout"