Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

bombersflyup With a Song in My Heart is a biographical musical, which didn't contain enough plot or drama for me.Of what it did contain beyond the musicals, I liked. It just never really went anywhere, it would of been nice to see Jane's experience with the troops outside of performing, just day to day. Both romances are just brushed over and contain little substance, we never see Jane having a good time with either of these guys. The troops reactions to her singing is too ridiculous for me, stupid grins on faces and singing along, other than the initial song at the club with the paratrooper, which I liked. Susan Hayward was good, I just wanted more than songs.

weezeralfalfa It was 1952:the year of "Singing in the Rain", of "The Belle of New York", with Fred Astaire and Vera Ellen, of "Son of Paleface", of Betty Hutton's music fest in "Somebody Loves Me", and of another songfest in "With a Song in My Heart", in which Susan Hayward does her visual take on notable singer Jane Froman, while Jane does the vocals behind the camera. If you prefer a film with a maximum of musical numbers and a minimum of dialogue, this film, along with "Somebody Loves Me" should fill the bill. That's not to say there wasn't a story to go with the music. There was plenty of time in this film for both. The dialogue mainly relates to Jane's first 2 husbands(there was a 3rd):Don Ross(David Wayne) and John Burn(the handsome Roy Calhoun), and to the physical disabilities after barely surviving a plane crash while flying to entertain the troops in Europe, during WWII. The film begins and ends with a NYC newsman's ball honoring Jane as the most courageous participant. She sings the title song. Between is a flashback covering her singing career. Susan was an Academy award nominee for her portrayal, which included much well done lip synching. Another Academy award nominee was the memorable Thelma Ritter, as Jane's faithful nurse after her accident. Besides her wisecracking, she was notable for her earthy wisdom and intolerance of pessimism by Jane about the progress of her leg healing. Jane could have played herself, being only a decade older than Susan. Presumably, the impediment of her damaged legs, plus a marked tendency to stutter since her father vanished when she was a little girl, discouraged casting herself in the title role. Susan was an excellent stand in.I counted 27 songs that were sung. Would have been nice if there was more dancing and complex sets. With just a couple of exceptions, they were sung in the order given in the 'Soundtracks' of this website section. The last 10 songs listed, plus the unlisted "My Indiana Home" constitute the finale medley. This essentially functions as a salute to the American spirit and to a sampling of states and cities. It begins and ends with "America the Beautiful"... Near the beginning of the film, David Wayne and Max Showalter do a comical vaudevillian act to "Hoe that Corn". Some of the songs Susan/Jane sing include "Get Happy", "Blue Moon", "Embraceable You", "Tea for Two" "It's a Good Day", "They're either too Young or too Old", and "I'll Walk Alone". In addition, David Wayne plays and sings "Montpurnesse" while in Jane's hospital room.The dialogue strongly hints, but doesn't confirm, that Jane's first marriage is essentially finished, and that John Burn: the copilot who rescued her from the plane crash, would be the successor. Apparently, she wasn't actually too passionate about her first husband, and came to see John Burns as her real soul mate. Historically, this would last only a few years, before she found her 3rd husband.Available free at YouTube, in glorious Technicolor.

bkoganbing Susan Hayward received her third Best Actress nomination for With A Song In My Heart, the musical biography of Jane Froman one of the best singers around in that era. In truth she should have shared that nomination with the voice of Jane for whom Hayward lip synchs the vocals. Together they're combination that can't be beat.The film is done with the technique of three of the people closest in her life reminiscing in thought Jane's story. Two of the three are her husbands, David Wayne and Rory Calhoun and the third is nurse Thelma Ritter who met her at the moment of her greatest crisis and kind of attached herself to Froman. Thelma Ritter got one of her nominations in the Best Supporting Actress category.Froman was a kid fresh from Missouri when at an audition at a radio station she meets David Wayne as Don Ross who is also a performer. But when he meets and marries Froman his career takes a distinct backseat to her's. That's the cause of a lot of friction which was building up until Pearl Harbor when everyone's problems get put on hold.While going to entertain troops via neutral Portugal, Froman's plane crashes in the Tagus River in Lisbon's harbor. Fifteen people out of thirty nine survive the crash including pilot Rory Calhoun who personally rescues her. With multiple injuries, it's a long road to recovery and those multiple injuries require multiple surgeries. That's where nurse Thelma Ritter comes in who uses every kind of psychological gambit to keep Froman going.The musical numbers are from a variety of sources and not all of them copyrighted by 20th Century Fox. I'm sure Darryl Zanuck laid out quite a bit of change for the music rights to perform here. Hayward runs the gamut of emotions playing Jane Froman at all stages of her career which did continue to roughly about 1960 when she retired. After the action of this film she married for a third time to an old friend from her small Missouri town and really went back to her roots. Who says you can't go home? The sale of the soundtrack album of this film revived Froman's career quite a bit. On a television show she hosted, she introduced the song I Believe which sold a lot of records from a variety of artist including Jane. I know we had the ten inch LP at my house and I believe I still have it. The scoring of the various musical sources for this film got With A Song In My Heart's only Oscar for Alfred Newman. The film was also nominated for Costume Design and Sound Recording.Getting his first real notice in the film was Robert Wagner in a small role as a shy paratrooper who Froman meets at a New York nightclub and later in hospital in post war Germany. No doubt that this man was going to have a career.With A Song In My Heart is a perfect musical film in every respect, staging, music, and acting. And it's a permanent memorial to the great careers of both Jane Froman and Susan Hayward.

rsternesq There is a very simple reason why they don't make movies like this now. As a matter of fact, there are at least two, equally valid, reasons. There are no heroes like Jane Froman and there are no actresses like Susan Hayward. I first saw this movie as a child and yesterday I watched it for perhaps the 20th time after reading a brand new biography of Jane Froman (Say It With Music). The story in the movie is close enough to the facts and the music, Jane Froman's music, was in fact the real thing. I bought two copies of the new DVD. One to play and to keep just in case because this one is a keeper. A truly wonderful movie. Uniquely wonderful.