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Directed by | Walter Lang |
Written by | Lamar Trotti |
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Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
Edited by | J. Watson Webb Jr. |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $3.2 million[1][2] |
With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 American biographical musical drama film that tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal. She entertained the troops in World War II despite having to walk with crutches. The film stars Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter, Robert Wagner, Helen Westcott, and Una Merkel. Froman herself supplied Hayward's singing voice.
The film was written and produced by Lamar Trotti and directed by Walter Lang. The title song, "With a Song in My Heart" (Rodgers and Hart, 1929), became famous in the United Kingdom as the theme to the long-running BBC radio show Family Favourites.