With a Song in My Heart (1952)
Directed by Walter Lang
Genres - Drama, Music, War, Musical |
Sub-Genres - Biopic [feature], Musical Drama |
Release Date - Apr 4, 1952 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 116 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
With a Song in My Heart is the story of popular 1930s songstress Jane Froman, here portrayed by Susan Hayward. We first see Ms. Froman as a humble staff singer at a Cincinnati radio stations, but it doesn't take her long to rise to the uppermost rungs of network radio fame. Jane gratefully marries her agent (David Wayne), but soon both realize they're not truly in love. While touring with the USO during World War II, Jane is in a plane crash, which severely injures her. She nonetheless valiantly makes a professional comeback, and begins a relationship with the pilot (Rory Calhoun) who rescued her. Jane Froman herself provided the vocals for With a Song in My Heart, with Susan Hayward doing a topnotch miming job. Watch for Robert Wagner in his starmaking cameo as a shell-shocked GI.
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performer, rise-to-fame, singer, marriage-of-convenience, radio, paralysis, pilot, plane-crash, courage, surgery, comeback
