Tin Pan Alley
1940
94 Min
Synopsis
Director Walter Lang’s ebullient musical (an Oscar winner for Best Score) stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable as singing sisters Katie and Lily Blane, vaudeville performers who team up with the songwriting duo Skeets Harrigan (John Payne) and Harry Calhoun (Jack Oakie). Filled with lavish production numbers, the film includes the hit songs “K-K-Katy” and “Honeysuckle Rose,” as well as an unforgettable staging of “The Sheik of Araby.”
Director
Walter Lang
Veteran film director Walter Lang’s well-known movies included “The King and I” and “Call Me Madam.” Lang graduated from the University of Tennessee, served in France with the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and began his career as a Hollywood film director in 1927. He directed more than 50 movies during his career, most of them while associated with 20th Century Fox from the early 1930s to the early 1960s. Some of his other films include “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” “Cheaper By the Dozen,” “State Fair,” “Moon Over Miami,” “Tin Pan Alley,” “The Great Profile” and “Star Dust.” Lang, who worked with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, was nominated for an Oscar for “The King and I”.—Los Angeles Times
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