Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Directed byJohn M. Stahl
Written byAlbert Lewis
Arthur Lewis
Produced byGeorge Jessel
StarringMark Stevens
June Haver
S.Z. Sakall
CinematographyHarry Jackson
Edited byLouis R. Loeffler
Production
company
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • November 11, 1949 (1949-11-11) (New York City)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,950,000 (US rentals)[1][2]
1949 photograph of the Marquee of the Chicago Theatre advertising showings of the film

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]

Plot

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:

Cast

Leading actors

Other cast

  • Sam Ash – quartet
  • Warren Jackson – quartet
  • Donald Kerr – quartet
  • Al Klein – quartet
  • Frank Kreig – head waiter
  • Nestor Paiva – Lucca

Uncredited cast

  • Myrtle Anderson – cook
  • Curt Bois – Zaltz
  • Edward Clark – Cooper - desk clerk
  • Tom Coleman – Policeman
  • John Davidson – Davis - Steiner's secretary
  • Sam Finn – minor role
  • Joseph Forte – waiter
  • Robert Gist – musician
  • James Griffith – Joe - reporter
  • Sam Harris – composer
  • Eddie Kane – Charles Hubert
  • Kenner G. Kemp – audience spectator
  • Carl M. Leviness – composer (uncredited)
  • Sidney Marion – minor role (uncredited)
  • Marion Martin – big blonde
  • Frank Mills – man in jail
  • Eula Morgan – Madame Zoubel
  • John Mylong – toastmaster
  • William J. O'Brien – waiter
  • Torchy Rand – Sophie - waitress
  • Dick Rich – burly man in saloon
  • Maurice Samuels – Italian
  • Harry Seymour – Volk, nightclub M.C.
  • Lester Sharpe – music store proprietor
  • Ray Teal – policeman
  • Phil Tully – desk sergeant
  • Ray Walker – box office attendant
  • Billy Wayne – reporter
  • Robert Williams – police lieutenant
  • Victor Sen Yung – houseboy
  • Al Jolson; himself

References

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