Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.
Steve Allen
Benny Goodman
Donna Reed
Alice Hammond
Berta Gersten
Mama Goodman
Barry Truex
Benny Goodman (age 16)
Herbert Anderson
John Hammond Jr.
Robert F. Simon
Papa Dave Goodman
Hy Averback
Willard Alexander - Benny's manager
Sammy Davis Sr.
Fletcher Henderson
Dick Winslow
Gil Rodin
Shepard Menken
Harry Goodman
Jack Kruschen
'Murph' Podolsky - riverboat band Mgr.
Wilton Graff
John Hammond Sr.
Sissi
Sissi: The Young Empress
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
Erin Brockovich
Killing Zoe
The Blues Brothers
Respect
Beyond the Sea
'Round Midnight
Coda
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Elvis
A Complete Unknown
Yoshiko & Yuriko
Champions
First They Killed My Father
Miss Pym's Day Out
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere