With A Song In My Heart (1952)

Beginning as a staff singer at a Cincinnati radio station, Jane Froman (Susan Hayward in an Oscar nominated performance) quickly rises to prominence in radio. Unhappily married to her agent (David Wayne), she volunteers for a USO tour during WWII. But tragedy strikes when the plane she's on crashes in a river near Lisbon, Portugal where her left leg is nearly severed. Based on the life of singer Jane Froman and directed by Walter Lang (THE KING AND I). Yet another glossy Hollywood movie biography milking all the sentiment it can out of a tragic situation. Hayward's singing voice is dubbed by the real Jane Froman but her voice sounds so unnatural coming out of Hayward's throat. It's a connect the dots movie biography without a moment of spontaneity in the whole movie. Audiences lapped it up making it a big hit and the soundtrack album a huge best seller. With "here comes another wisecrack" Thelma Ritter, Rory Calhoun, Una Merkel, Leif Erickson, Helen Westcott and Robert Wagner in his breakthrough role as a shell shocked G.I. After Wagner received thousands of fan letters a week, Fox started giving him leading roles.