Music in My Heart

Music in My Heart
Columbia, 1940, B/W, 69 minutes, ***
Released January, 1940

Tony Martin and Rita Hayworth meet in a taxi wreck. They are both singers, though Martin is about to be deported, and Rita is engaged to be married. But they hook up and do some musical gigs together and, of course, fall in love.

Produced by: Irving Starr
Directed by: Joseph Santley
Original Story and Screen Play by: James Edward Grant
(based on his story "Passport to Happiness")
Musical Director: M. W. Stoloff
Musical Numbers by: Robert Wright and Chet Forrest: "No Other Love," "Punchinello," "Oh What a Lovely Dream," "Music in My Heart," "It's a Blue World"
"No Taboleior da Bahiana" ("No Tabuleiro Da Bahiana") by Barroso
Vocal Arrangements: Charles Henderson
Art Direction: Lionel Banks
Gowns by: Kalloch
Sound: George Cooper
Director of Photography: John Stumar
Film Editor: Otto Meyer

Awards: Academy Award nomination Best Song ("It's a Blue World")

Cast: Tony Martin [Robert Gregory], Rita Hayworth [Patricia O'Malley], Edith Fellows [Mary O'Malley], Alan Mowbray [Charles Gardner], Eric Blore [Griggs, the Butler], George Tobias [Sascha], Joseph Crehan [Mark C. Gilman], George Humbert [Luigi], Joey Ray [Miller], Don Brodie [Taxi Driver], Julieta Novis [Leading Lady], Eddie Kane [Blake], Phil Tead [Marshall], Marten Lamont [Barrett], Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra [Themselves]

Musical Program: [0:03] No Other Love (sung by Tony Martin, Julieta Novis and Chorus in an excerpt of the stage play "The Gay Guardsman"); [0:17] Punchinello (sung by Tony Martin and The Brian Sisters; reprised by Tony Martin and Edith Fellows and danced by Rita Hayworth); [0:36] A Bird in a Gilded Cage (excerpt sung by Tony Martin and Edith Fellows); [0:39] Oh What a Lovely Dream (sung by Tony Martin); [0:45] Punchinello (sung by Tony Martin and Edith Fellows, danced by Rita Hayworth); [0:58] No Taboleior da Bahiana (Samba played by Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra); [1:01] It's a Blue World (sung by Tony Martin with Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra); [1:07] Music in My Heart (sung by Tony Martin with Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra)