Tin Pan Alley (1940)
1h 34m
Running Time
November 29, 1940Release Date
Tin Pan Alley (1940)
1h 34m
Running Time
November 29, 1940Release Date
Plot.
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Alice Faye
Katie Blane
Betty Grable
Lily Blane
Jack Oakie
Harry Calhoun
John Payne
Skeets Harrigan
Allen Jenkins
Casey
Esther Ralston
Nora Bayes
Walter Lang
Director
Harold Nicholas
Dancer
Robert Ellis
Writer
Helen Logan
Writer
Fayard Nicholas
Dancer
Pamela Harris
Writer
Ben Carter
Boy
Leon Shamroy
Cinematographer
John Loder
Reggie Carstairs
Walter Thompson
Editor
Elisha Cook Jr.
Joe Codd
Fred Keating
Harvey Raymond
Billy Gilbert
Sheik
Lillian Porter
Telephone Operator
Princess Vanessa Ammon
Specialty
Betty Brian
Singer
Doris Brian
Singer
Gwen Brian
Singer
Roberts Brothers
Specialty
Tyler Brooke
Bert Melville
Hal K. Dawson
Hotel Clerk
William B. Davidson
Hotel Manager
Lionel Pape
Lord Stanley
Billy Bevan
Stage Doorman
Dewey Robinson
Dumb Guy
Robert Emmett Keane
Manager
John Sheehan
Announcer
George Watts
Mike Buckner
Ted Billings
Recruit Poster Peddler in Montage (uncredited)
Bobby Callahan
Newsboy (uncredited)
Maurice Costello
(uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Man in Audience (uncredited)
James Flavin
Army Sergeant (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Nightclub Guest (uncredited)
Kit Guard
Ringsider (uncredited)
Eddie Hall
Man Reading Headline (uncredited)
John Indrisano
Kid Skeets' Cornerman (uncredited)
Larry McGrath
Referee (uncredited)
Pat McKee
Two Punch Hogan (uncredited)
Bud Mercer
Dancer (uncredited)
Jim Mercer
Dancer (uncredited)
Louis Mercier
(uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 29, 1940
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Content RatingNR
Genres
Wiki.
Tin Pan Alley is a 1940 musical film directed by Walter Lang and starring Alice Faye and Betty Grable (their only film together) 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.