page_title: Tin Pan Alley (film)
section_title: Casting
hierarchical_section_title: Tin Pan Alley (film) / Casting
caption_attribution_description: English: Elizabeth Ruth "Betty" Grable from the film Tin Pan Alley.
context_page_description: Tin Pan Alley is a 1940 musical film directed by Walter Lang and starring Alice Faye and Betty Grable as vaudeville singers/sisters and John Payne and Jack Oakie as songwriters in the years before World War I.
  Alfred Newman received the 1940 Academy Award for Best Musical Score for his work on the film, the first of his nine Oscars. The film was also nominated for American Film Institute's 2006 list of the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals.
context_section_description: Before filming began, there was said to be a feud between Faye and Grable, although the two actresses had never met. On the first day of production, the actresses quickly got along and became lifelong friends.
  Tyrone Power and Don Ameche were considered for the leading roles, but scheduling conflicts took them out of the running.
caption: Betty Grable in the film.
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