Tin Pan Alley (film)

Tin Pan Alley
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Walter Lang
Produced by	Kenneth Macgowan
Written by	Pamela Harris (story) Robert Ellis Helen Logan
Starring	Alice Faye Betty Grable Jack Oakie John Payne
Music by	Alfred Newman
Cinematography	Leon Shamroy
Edited by	Walter A. Thompson
Distributed by	20th-Century Fox
Release dates	November 29, 1940 (1940-11-29)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Tin Pan Alley is a 1940 musical film starring Alice Faye and Betty Grable as vaudeville singers/sisters and John Payne and Jack Oakie as songwriters in the years before World War I.

Alfred Newman received the 1940 Academy Award for his work on the film. This was his first of nine Oscars.

Cast

Alice Faye as Katie Blane
Betty Grable as Lily Blane
Jack Oakie as Harry Calhoun
John Payne as Francis 'Skeets' Harrigan
Allen Jenkins as Casey
Esther Ralston as Nora Bayes
Fayard Nicholas as Dance Specialty
Harold Nicholas as Dance Specialty
Ben Carter as Boy
John Loder as Captain Reginald 'Reggie' Carstair
Elisha Cook, Jr. as Joe Codd
Fred Keating as Harvey Raymond

Trivia

Before filming began, there was said to be a feud between Faye and Grable, although the two actresses had never met. On the first day of production, the actresses got along quickly and became lifelong friends. A similar incident was reported to have happened with Grable and Marilyn Monroe while filming How to Marry a Millionaire. Like the earlier incident, the two actresses got along and became friends.

Tyrone Power and Don Ameche were considered to play the leading roles in the film. Scheduling conflicts took them out of the running and the roles went to Payne and Oakie.

This film was featured in the M*A*S*H TV episode "Alcoholics Unanimous".

In the opening sequence many old time songs can be heard, but once the title card comes on, it is "The Darktown Strutters Ball" that you hear, interwoven with "you say the sweetest things (baby)".

External links

Tin Pan Alley at the Internet Movie Database
Tin Pan Alley at the TCM Movie Database
Tin Pan Alley at AllMovie

Films directed by Walter Lang

The Red Kimono (1925)
The Earth Woman (1926)
The Golden Web (1926)
Money to Burn (1926)
The Ladybird (1927)
The Satin Woman (1927)
Sally in Our Alley (1927)
By Whose Hand? (1927)
The College Hero (1927)
The Night Flyer (1928)
The Desert Bride (1928)
The Spirit of Youth (1929)
Hello Sister (1930)
Cock o' the Walk (1930)
The Big Fight (1930)
The Costello Case (1930)
Brothers (1930)
Command Performance (1931)
Hell Bound (1931)
Women Go on Forever (1931)
No More Orchids (1932)
The Warrior's Husband (1933)
Meet the Baron (1933)
Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
The Party's Over (1934)
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
Carnival (1935)
Hooray for Love (1935)
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
Top of the Town (1937)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
Second Honeymoon (1937)
The Baroness and the Butler (1938)
I'll Give a Million (1938)
The Little Princess (1939)
Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
The Blue Bird (1940)
Star Dust (1940)
The Great Profile (1940)
Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Moon Over Miami (1941)
Week-End in Havana (1941)
Song of the Islands (1942)
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
Coney Island (1943)
Greenwich Village (1944)
State Fair (1945)
Claudia and David (1946)
Sentimental Journey (1946)
Mother Wore Tights (1947)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
You're My Everything (1949)
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
The Jackpot (1950)
On the Riviera (1951)
With a Song in My Heart (1952)
Call Me Madam (1953)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
The King and I (1956)
Desk Set (1957)
But Not for Me (1959)
Can-Can (1960)
The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)

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