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Tin Pan Alley is a american film of genre Drama directed by Walter Lang released in USA on 29 november 1940 with Alice Faye

Tin Pan Alley (1940)

Tin Pan Alley
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Released in USA 29 november 1940
Length 1h34
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Musical theatre,    Musical,    Romance
Rating63% 3.1923853.1923853.1923853.1923853.192385

Tin Pan Alley is a 1940 musical film starring Alice Faye and Betty Grable 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 his work on the film. This was his first of nine Oscars.

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