Music for Millions

A pregnant musician awaits her husband's return from World War II in Music for Millions (1944) starring June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien and Jimmy Durante.

Horsing around in rehearsal, the mostly-female wartime orchestra, Margaret O’Brien watches big sister June Allyson on bass, Marsha Hunt on harp, then manager Jimmy Durante with a modified version (Iturbi instead of Stokowski) of one of his standards, the conductor himself arriving, in Music For Millions, 1944.

Big sister and orchestra string-bass player Babs (June Allyson) with kid sister “Mike” (Margaret O’Brien), who interrupted the performance, finding her after arriving unexpectedly on the train, with Jose Iturbi the annoyed conductor and Jimmy Durante his harried manager, in MGM’s Music For Millions, 1944.

Playing the heartstrings from the start, director Henry Koster and producer Joe Pasternak in their first picture at MGM, introduce Margaret O’Brien as young “Mike,” not met at the train by her sister (June Allyson), Eddie Dunn the cop, Connie Gilchrist for Traveler’s Aid, in Music For Millions, 1944.