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Birth name: Alton Glenn Miller
Name change: Glenn Miller
Birth date: March 1, 1904
Birth place: Clarinda, Iowa
Death date: December 15, 1944
Memorial tribute: Arlington
National Cemetery
High school: Fort Morgan High
School, Colorado
College: University of Colorado
Occupation: Trombonist,
arranger and bandleader
Parents: Lewis Elmer and Mattie
Lou Cavender Miller
Siblings: Brothers Dean and
Herb, Sister Irene
Married: in
1928 to Helen Burger
Children: son Stevie and daughter
Jonnie, both adopted
Author: Damon Runyon
Book: Bible
Actor: Spencer Tracy
Actress: Olivia de Havilland
Hobbies: Trout Fishing, playing
baseball and listening to good music
Quote: "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!" -
Duke Ellington
Miller's birthplace, Clarinda, Iowa, holds the annual Glenn Miller Festival from June 9 -13, inviting visitors and bands from around the world to celebrate Glenn Miller's
music.
Glenn Miller's mother once worried about the large amount of time Glenn spent playing the trombone, saying, "It
got to where Pop and I used to wonder if he'd ever amount
to anything."
Glenn Miller and his wife, Helen, adopted two children,
a son, Stevie, and a daughter, Jonnie.
Glenn Miller tried to join the Navy in 1942, at the age
of 38, but was rejected. Afterward, he enlisted in the
Army Air Force.
While picking the 45 members of his Army Air Force Band,
Miller rejected Henry Mancini, a 19-year-old piano player.
Ten years later, Mancini wrote the title theme and arranged
the music for the film The Glenn Miller Story.
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