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 |
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Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
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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