Question: Give Us This Night (1936) was attempting to build on the popularity of what American soprano nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale?"

full_context: Document 1: Ava Gardner: Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress and singer.
Document 2: Judy Garland: Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian. She was renowned for her contralto vocals and attained international stardom that continued throughout a career spanning more than 40 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on concert stages.
Document 3: His Glorious Night: His Glorious Night is a 1929 Pre-Code American romance film directed by Lionel Barrymore and starring John Gilbert in his first released talkie. It has gained notoriety as the film that reputedly ended the career of John Gilbert by revealing that he had a voice unsuitable for sound.
Document 4: Herta Glaz: Herta Glaz (also spelled Hertha; September 16, 1910 in Vienna – January 28, 2006 in Hamden, Connecticut) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director of Austrian birth. She became a United States citizen in 1943. She was a fixture at the Metropolitan Opera between 1942-1956 where she sang in more than 300 performances. She was also highly active with the San Francisco Opera between 1944-1951. Some of the roles she portrayed on stage were Marcellina in "Le Nozze di Figaro", Annina, Siegrune in "Die Walküre", Flosshilde in "Götterdämmerung" and Magdalene in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg".
Document 5: Doris Day filmography: The filmography of American actress Doris Day consists of 39 feature films released between 1948 and 1968. She began her career as a band singer and eventually won the female lead in a Warner Bros. film "Romance on the High Seas" (1948) replacing Betty Hutton. She went on to star in several minor musicals for Warners, including "Tea for Two" (1950), "Lullaby of Broadway" (1951), "April in Paris" (1952), "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (1953), and a hit musical, "Calamity Jane", which gave her an Academy Award-winning song, "Secret Love" (1953). She ended her contract with Warners after filming "Young at Heart" (1954) with Frank Sinatra.
Document 6: Greta Garbo: Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; ] ; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), was a Swedish-born American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.
Document 7: Give Us This Night: Give Us This Night (1936) is one of five movies produced by Paramount Pictures featuring Gladys Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on the popularity of Grace Moore, another opera singer, who had also expanded her talents into movies.
Document 8: Decima Moore: Lilian Decima, Lady Moore-Guggisberg, CBE (11 December 1871 – 18 February 1964), better known by her stage name Decima Moore, was an English singer and actress, known for her performances in soprano roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and in musical comedies. She was the youngest of ten siblings (hence, the name "Decima"). Her sister, actress Eva Moore, was the mother of actress Jill Esmond, the first wife of Laurence Olivier.
Document 9: Jeanette MacDonald: Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier ("The Love Parade", "Love Me Tonight", "The Merry Widow" and "One Hour With You") and Nelson Eddy ("Naughty Marietta", "Rose-Marie", and "Maytime"). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars ("The Love Parade", "One Hour with You", "Naughty Marietta" and "San Francisco"), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of the most influential sopranos of the 20th century, introducing opera to movie-going audiences and inspiring a generation of singers.
Document 10: Grace Moore: Grace Moore (December 5, 1898January 26, 1947) was an American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film. She was nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "One Night of Love".
Document 11: Norma Shearer: Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress and Hollywood star from 1925 through 1942. Her early films cast her as a spunky ingenue, but in the pre-Code film era, she played sexually liberated women. She excelled in drama, comedy, and period roles. She gave well-received performances in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare. She was the first person to be nominated five times for an Academy Award for acting, winning Best Actress for her performance in the 1930 film "The Divorcee".
Document 12: Jenny Lind: Johanna Maria Lind (6 October 18202 November 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and undertook an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.
Document 13: A Lady's Morals: A Lady's Morals is a 1930 American Pre-Code film offering a highly fictionalized account of singer Jenny Lind. The movie features opera diva Grace Moore as Lind, Reginald Denny as a lover, and Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum; Beery would play Barnum again four years later in "The Mighty Barnum". The film contains some fine opera arias by Moore and was directed by Sidney Franklin.
Document 14: Kathryn Grayson: Kathryn Grayson (February 9, 1922 – February 17, 2010) was an American actress and coloratura soprano. From the age of twelve, Grayson trained as an opera singer. She was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by the early 1940s, soon establishing a career principally through her work in musicals. After several supporting roles, she was a lead performer in such films as "Thousands Cheer" (1943), "Anchors Aweigh" (1945) with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, and "Show Boat" (1951) and "Kiss Me Kate" (1953), both with Howard Keel.
Document 15: Grace Bumbry: Grace Melzia Bumbry (born January 4, 1937), an American opera singer, is considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, as well as a major soprano for many years. She was a member of a pioneering generation of singers who followed Marian Anderson (including Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett and Reri Grist) in the world of classical music and paved the way for future African-American opera and classical singers. Bumbry's voice was rich and sizable, possessing a wide range, and was capable of producing a very distinctive plangent tone.
ground_truth: Grace Moore