Tin Pan Alley

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. Plot Katie and Lily Blaine are a singing-sister act playing the vaudeville circuit. Songwriters Skeets Harrigan and Harry Calhoun see star potential in the sister act. 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