18 June 1959 Drama, Music 117 mins
Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time to raise a family. Then tragedy strikes when their daughter contracts polio.
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Danny Kaye as Red Nichols
Barbara Bel Geddes as Wila Stutsman
Louis Armstrong as Louis Armstrong
Harry Guardino as Tony Valani
Bob Crosby as Wil Paradise
Bobby Troup as Artie Schutt
Susan Gordon as Young Dorothy Nichols
Tuesday Weld as Teenaged Dorothy Nichols
Ray Anthony as Jimmy Dorsey
Shelly Manne as Dave Tough
Ray Daley as Glenn Miller
Valerie Allen as Tommye Eden
Cindy Carol as Girl at Birthday Party
Robert Banas as Dancer at College Prom
Toby Michaels as Girl at Birthday Party
Charles Herbert as Patient
Melville Shavelson Director
John P. Fulton Special Effects
Nellie Manley Hair Supervisor
Red Nichols Musician
Leith Stevens Conductor
Farciot Edouart Visual Effects
W. Wallace Kelley Second Unit Director of Photography
Sylvia Fine Songs
Hal C. Kern Production Assistant
Melville Shavelson Screenplay
Charles Grenzbach Sound Recordist
Wally Westmore Makeup Supervisor
Daniel L. Fapp Director of Photography
Leith Stevens Original Music Composer
Richard Caffey Assistant Director
John Wilkinson Sound Recordist
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Germany 29 January 1960
United Kingdom 18 June 1959
Netherlands 25 July 2008
United States 18 June 1959
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Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice.
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My father had seen this film in a New York cinemawhile he was waiting for his shipin the late ' One of the most tender moving films I have ever watched.
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16 September 1959
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01 January 1959
This film records the struggle for life within the Arctic Circle. It reveals flowers of startling beauty, whose entire life cycles last less than thirty days, and strange animals like the shaggy musk-ox, the shy lemming, and migrant water birds that survive in a land of vast deserts and almost perpetual cold.
20 May 1959
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17 May 1959
Bandit Denver Dooley travels to a lawless western town where he notices a sign, "No Bandits Allowed. Signed, Marshall Woody Woodpecker".
01 September 1959
This is a film comprised primarily from footage shot by the exploring team of Mr. and Mrs. William Phillips, nee Bill and Eve Phillips, a minor league version of the better-known Martin and Osa Johnson.
01 January 1959
A fairy tale story about how the enchanted mill was freed from ghosts and how the shepherd Franta knew fear when he had to confess his love to Verunka.
03 October 1959
An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.
01 January 1959
Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house.
03 June 1959
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18 November 1959
In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.
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