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Bing Crosby was the leading figure of the crooner sound as well as its most iconic, defining artist. By the 1940s, he was an entertainment superstar who mastered all of the major media formats of the day, movies, radio, and recorded music. Other popular singers of the day included Cab Calloway and Eddie Cantor.
The movie-jukebox idea developed several imitations and variations of the technical design; the most successful of these imitators were the Techniprocess company (managed by Rudy Vallee) and the Featurettes company, which used original novelty songs and usually unknown talent (17-year-old Gwen Verdon appears in a couple of the Featurettes as "Gwen Verdun").
Music in My Heart was one of five pictures Hayworth appeared in that year, none of which caught on with the public. [5]: 52 Reviewing the 2004 DVD release, Turner Classic Movies called Music in My Heart "a fun, charming, and unpretentious little musical which illustrates very well what an ordinary Hollywood entertainment of 1940 was like ...
Barbie as the Island Princess (animated direct-to-video) Christmas Is Here Again (animated direct-to-video) Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (animated direct-to-video) Colma: The Musical; Crazy; Enchanted; Hairspray; High School Musical 2 (television film) The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (animated direct-to-video) Les chansons d ...
Tin Pan Alley is a 1940 musical film directed by Walter Lang and starring Alice Faye and Betty Grable (their only film together [2]) as vaudeville singers/sisters and John Payne and Jack Oakie as songwriters in the years before World War I.
The following songs appeared in The Billboard's 'Best Selling Retail Records' chart during 1940. Each week fifteen points were awarded to the number one record, then nine points for number two, eight points for number three, and so on.
April 5, 1940 And One Was Beautiful: April 12, 1940 Dr. Kildare's Strange Case: 4th entry in the Dr. Kildare film series April 19, 1940 Two Girls on Broadway: April 26, 1940 Forty Little Mothers: May 3, 1940 20 Mule Team: May 10, 1940 Edison, the Man: May 17, 1940 Waterloo Bridge: June 5, 1940 Florian: June 7, 1940 Susan and God: June 7, 1940 ...