Sun Valley Serenade

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

SKY HIGH ROMANCE BETWEEN SONJA AND JOHN TO THE IRRESISTIBLE RHYTHMS OF GLENN MILLER and HIS ORCHESTRA!

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.

Date of release
1941-08-29
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (31)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Comedy, Music, Romance
Director
H. Bruce Humberstone

Casting

Interesting facts

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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 music by the Glenn Miller Orchestra and 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.

Filming

Sun Valley Serenade was filmed in March 1941, by Darryl Zanuck. Zanuck had come up with the idea for the film while on holiday there. Popular myth to the contrary, nearly all of the filming was done on the 20th-Century Fox sound stages in Hollywood. Only a few actors travelled to Sun Valley for exterior location shots.

The film became a Hollywood hit and served as a recruiting effort for the elite ski corps of the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Camp Hale in Colorado. Sun Valley's ski school director, Otto Lang, of St. Anton, oversaw the skiing scenes. The musical numbers were recorded in multidirectional mono, placing microphones around different parts of the orchestra. Those were all mixed down to mono at the time the film was released.

Clarice Freeman Schnoebelen, a skater who toured with Sonja Henie and appeared in the films, told her family a story about the filming of Sun Valley Serenade. Her name at the time was Clarice Evans or Corliss Evans. She said that the black dye added to the ice in the famous "black ice" scene, which created the mirror effect of the ice, stained the women's skates, and no offer was made to clean the skates or replace them.

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