Tin Pan Alley
Starring: Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie
Director: Walter Lang
Writer: Robert Ellis
Producer: Kenneth Macgowan
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.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment.
- 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 quickly got along and became lifelong friends.
- Tyrone Power and Don Ameche were considered for the leading roles, but scheduling conflicts took them out of the running.
Previous Showings
8 Runs • 4 Festivals
5,759 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (December 15, 1940)
Original Run: December 15, 1940 (Sunday - Wednesday)
All runs on record (8):
- December 15, 1940 (Sunday - Wednesday)Alice Faye, Betty Grable
- December 15 - 16, 1990 · 619 ticketsw/ Broadway Melody of 1940
- October 10 - 12, 1992 · 1,767 ticketsw/ Alexander's Ragtime Band
- August 7 - 8, 1997 · 621 ticketsw/ Three Little Words
- August 13 - 14, 1998 · 731 ticketsDear Old Hollywoodw/ Alexander's Ragtime Band
- May 5, 2001 · 363 ticketsMORE HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS 1940-1950w/ Broadway Melody of 1940
- July 12 - 15, 2008 · 1,101 ticketsSummer 2008 Bette Davis, James Stewart, silent films and more!w/ Waterloo Bridge
- September 11 - 13, 2026 · 557 ticketsClassic Musicals from 20th Century-Foxw/ Alexander's Ragtime Band