The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

June Allyson: Helen Burger

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  Helen Burger : Honestly!

• Glenn Miller : Bought you a present for your birthday.

  Helen Burger : My birthday? That isn't until next November.

  Glenn Miller : This is for your last birthday...

• Glenn Miller : You think I'm kinda rudderless, don't you? Wandering over the country with the band.

  Helen Burger : Yes, I guess I do.

  Glenn Miller : But I'm not, though. I know exactly where I'm going. I know exactly what I want to do.

  Helen Burger : You do?

  Glenn Miller : I'm not gonna be a sideman all my life, a trombone player. I'm - I'm gonna have a band all of my own. I'm gonna play my own kind of music.

• Helen Burger : When someone really wants something, way inside, and they want it hard enough, they usually get it.

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

• Helen Burger : Glenn isn't my type. I guess I'm just too practical or unromantic or something. I want a man like Ed who's got a factory or a store or something solid. I certainly don't want a wandering nomad like Glenn Miller.

• Glenn Miller : A band oughta have a sound all of its own, oughta have a personality.

  Helen Burger : Sort of like a person.

  Glenn Miller : Uh-huh.

  Helen Burger : Well, how do you get this different sound?

  Glenn Miller : You see, the arrangements, the way you score each one of the individual instruments. Some bands have that sound already, like Pollack, but it's not the right sound, not for me.

  Helen Burger : What is?

  Glenn Miller : I don't know. I don't know. I haven't found it yet. But someday I'm gonna find it.

• Glenn Miller : [on the phone]  Now, be sure to call me from Denver so I can meet the train. My number is Pennsylvania 6-5000.

  Helen Burger : Pennsylvania 6-5000?

  Glenn Miller : Pennsylvania 6-5-0-0-0.

• Young Singer : [singing in a floor show]  I stand at your gate, And I sing you a song in the moonlight, A love song, my darling, A moonlight serenade.

  Glenn Miller : [sitting at a table in the audience]  What have they done to my tune?

  Helen Burger : It wasn't very good.

  Glenn Miller : The song is supposed to be a ballad, not a hootchy-kootchy dance!

• Louis Armstrong : [singing on stage]  Yes, Basin Street, Is the street, Where the fo's really meet...

  Helen Burger : [sitting at a table in Connie's Inn, Harlem]  Who's he?

  Glenn Miller : Who? Louis Armstrong!

  Louis Armstrong : [singing]  Yeah, yeah, yeah, really, yeah! Yeah, this is a treat, A-swingin' on Basin Street, yeah...

• Helen Burger : What happened to that dream of yours? What about that sound?

• Helen Burger : Glenn and the boys are gonna do a movie in the fall.

  Mrs. Miller : Why, Glenn Miller, are you gonna be a movie star?

  Glenn Miller : Oh, yes, Mother. I'm gonna play Tarzan and swing from the trees playing my trombone.

• Helen Burger : Two years and not a word, and then a present like this.

  Glenn Miller : Well, you know, with some people, ya don't have to write. You just know.

• Helen Burger : You know, I'm the kind of wife that steals money out of your pockets and puts it in the bank.

  Glenn Miller : Would you really do that?

  Helen Burger : Sure. I've already started.