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Academy Award Music (Scoring) 1939 · Winner
Academy Award Outstanding Production 1939 · Nominated
Academy Award Art Direction 1939 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Original Story) 1939 · Nominated
Academy Award Music (Song) 1939 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 1939 · Nominated
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) - Awards, nominations, and wins. Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box ...
Box office. $3.6 million (worldwide rentals) [4] Alexander's Ragtime Band is a 1938 American musical film released by 20th Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in ragtime instead of "serious" music. The film ...
- Henry King
- Irving Berlin, Richard Sherman
Songwriter (s) Irving Berlin. " Alexander's Ragtime Band " is a Tin Pan Alley song by American composer Irving Berlin released in 1911; it is often inaccurately cited as his first global hit. [a] [5] Despite its title, the song is a march as opposed to a rag and contains little syncopation. [6] The song is a narrative sequel to Berlin's earlier ...
- English
- May 23, 1911, (phonograph recording)
- "Ocean Roll" by Eddie Morton
- March 18, 1911, (sheet music registration)
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Alexander's Ragtime Band: Directed by Henry King. With Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman. This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.
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- Drama, Music, Musical
- Henry King
- 1938-08-16
Musical This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music. 11th Academy Awards (1939) - Movies from 1938
While Alexander's Ragtime Band was shot over three months in early 1938 and released that summer, it had been in preparation for two years and wound up costing Fox about $2 million, an extravagant sum. Nonetheless, it was a giant hit with audiences and critics alike, racking up six Oscar® nominations including Best Picture, winning the award ...
In 1910s San Francisco, concert violinist Roger Grant (Tyrone Power), also known as Alexander, abandons classical music to join a ragtime band with pianist Charlie Dwyer (Don Ameche) and singer ...
- (6)
- Musical
