Sun Valley Serenade

Adopted happiness (OT: Sun Valley Serenade ) is an American Revue film from 1941 with Sonja Henie and John Payne in the lead roles. The famous bandleader Glenn Miller made ​​his debut as an actor.

Action

The well-known singer Vivian Dawn in Idaho occurs in the exclusive winter resort Sun Valley. She is active in New York Phil Carey and his Dartmouth Troubadors for their next appearance and falls easily into the attractive pianist of the band, Ted Scott. Immediately before setting out to Sun Valley bursts in the news that a young Norwegian refugee child awaits the promised support from the band. The offer was actually meant only as a publicity stunt, but now Ted sets out to take the supposed child in reception. To his surprise, Karen Benson stands before him, a grown-up and very pretty young woman. Karen accompanied the band and after some complications, see Ted and Karen their luck and Karen is the star of an extravagant revue to the Dartmouth Troubadors play the music.

Background

The Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie decided after the end of their unprecedented winning streak with three Olympic victories, ten World Cup titles and six European Championship titles in mid 1936 for a career in film.

20th Century Fox developed for Stephenie has its special shape of the revue film with spectacular show deposits in the form of ice shows. This required a special camera designed to accommodate the extremely fast movements of the skaters without distortion. In addition, it was necessary to prepare the ice for the revue scenes especially. To a top layer was applied by milchfarbenem ice to facilitate recording. Also always had a very thin film of water to ensure there could only be so prevents ice cubes flung around during braking maneuvers and quick turns and recording spoiled. Successes such as Thin Ice and Second Fiddle Henie made ​​one of the most popular stars at the box office of the time.

The film was the middle of 1939, initially under the working title Passport to Life and with Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell as a follow-up project for their success in Daytime Wife planned before the whole story was completely rewritten for the talents of Sonja Henie, and finally under the title of Sun Valley Serenade the end of August in 1941 in the cinemas. The instrumental song Chattanooga Choo Choo, the Glenn Miller plays in the film, already sold shortly after the publication of over a million times.

Sonja Henie designated Adopted luck later as their favorite movie.

Music

As the story progresses the following pieces of music are put forward:

  • It Happened in Sun Valley
  • Moonlight Serenade
  • I Know Why ( And So Do You)
  • In the Mood
  • The Farmer in the Dell
  • Chatanooga Choo Choo
  • The Kiss Polka

Awards

At the Academy Awards in 1942, the film received nominations in the categories:

  • Best Cinematography ( Black - White ) - Edward Cronjager
  • Best Original Score ( Music Film ) - Emil Newman
  • Best Song - Chattanooga Choo Choo
1941 in film H. Bruce Humberstone Screenplay Film score James B. Clark (director) John Payne (actor) Sun Valley (Idaho) Thin Ice (1937 film) 14th Academy Awards
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