{"id":11584,"date":"2016-11-28T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11584"},"modified":"2016-11-27T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T20:16:39","slug":"orchestra-wives-1942-archie-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11584","title":{"rendered":"Orchestra Wives (1942, Archie Mayo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trumpeter Bill (cowboy actor\/boxer George Montgomery) is in Glenn Miller&#8217;s band, a womanizer who falls for high schooler Connie (Ann Rutherford, one of Scarlett&#8217;s sisters in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/82\">Gone With The Wind<\/a><\/em>).  They get married overnight and she joins the other orchestra wives on tour.  It&#8217;s unbelievable that in the 1940&#8217;s it was economical for bands of this size to afford playing park venues and touring with their families, but maybe it&#8217;s all magic Hollywood economics.  Anyway, Connie&#8217;s presence ignites some of the simmering resentment among the other wives and players and the band disintegrates, then she schemes with Glenn to reunite them just in time for a randomly placed, but very welcome, Nicholas Brothers singing and dancing finale.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/orchestrawives.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trumpeter Bill (cowboy actor\/boxer George Montgomery) is in Glenn Miller&#8217;s band, a womanizer who falls for high schooler Connie (Ann Rutherford, one of Scarlett&#8217;s sisters in Gone With The Wind). They get married overnight and she joins the other orchestra wives on tour. It&#8217;s unbelievable that in the 1940&#8217;s it was economical for bands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,1092,80,2168],"class_list":["post-11584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-archie-mayo","tag-musical","tag-nicholas-brothers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11603,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584\/revisions\/11603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}