The Glenn Miller Story is a 1954 American biographical film about the American band-leader, directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their first non-western collaboration. Universal-International's first public announcements, early in 1953, employed the soon-discarded title, "Moonlight Serenade."
While the family and friends of Glenn Miller were consulted in the scripting of the movie, the storyline does not follow actual timeline of events of the real Glenn Miller's life. For example, in the movie, Little Brown Jug was first performed after his death in 1944, when in real life it was first recorded in 1939.