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The Benny Goodman story ; A Universal International Picture ; written and directed by Valentine Davies ; produced by Aaron Rosenberg.
LIBRA DVD 002 907
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DVD Judaica 479
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986.
- Goodman, Benny.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Biographical films.
- Video recordings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sheldon, Harvey (donor) (Storage copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English; subtitles in Spanish and French.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The music of Benny Goodman comes to life in this musical biography of the famed King of Swing. Featuring all the outstanding songs and instrumentals made famous by the immortal clarinetist, the story follows the innovative musician from his childhood in Chicago to his historic concert at Carnegie Hall in 1938.
- Participant:
- Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Ben Pollack, Teddy Wilson, Edward "Kid" Ory.
- Credits:
- Music by Benny Goodman.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the 1955 motion picture.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Local Notes:
- Storage presented to the Penn Libraries by Harvey Sheldon.
- ISBN:
- 0783278985
- OCLC:
- 51908325
- Publisher Number:
- 025192263620
- 22636 Universal
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