| Tin Pan Alley | |
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| Directed by | Walter Lang |
| Screenplay by | Robert Ellis Helen Logan |
| Story by | Pamela Harris |
| Produced by | Kenneth Macgowan |
| Starring | Alice Faye Betty Grable Jack Oakie John Payne |
| Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
| Edited by | Walter A. Thompson |
| Music by | Alfred Newman |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.645 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)[1] |
Tin Pan Alley is a 1940 musical film directed by Walter Lang and starring Alice Faye and Betty Grable (their only film together[2]) 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 Best Musical Score for his work on the film, the second of his nine Oscars. The film was also nominated for American Film Institute's 2006 list of the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals.[3]
- ^ "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990.
- ^ Green, Stanley (1999) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2nd ed.), pub. Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN 0-634-00765-3 page 100
- ^ "AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-13.