Oh, You Beautiful Doll | |
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Directed by | John M. Stahl |
Written by |
Albert Lewis Arthur Lewis |
Produced by | George Jessel |
Starring |
Mark Stevens June Haver S.Z. Sakall |
Cinematography | Harry Jackson |
Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,950,000 (US rentals) [1] [2] |
Oh, You Beautiful Doll is a 1949 American musical film directed by John M. Stahl (his final film), starring the musical queen June Haver and Mark Stevens. Co-stars included S.Z. Sakall, Charlotte Greenwood, and Gale Robbins. [3]
The film is a fictionalized biography of Fred Fisher, a German-born American writer of Tin Pan Alley songs. Tin Pan Alley promoter ( Mark Stevens) turns serious composer Fred Breitenbach ( S.Z. Sakall) into songwriter Fred Fisher. Fred Fisher is his assumed name in real life and Breitenbach is his birth surname. In the film, many Fisher songs were given a symphonic arrangement that was performed at Aeolian Hall. Among the Fisher songs heard were:
Leading actors
Other cast
Uncredited cast