American Masters Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley (Season 13, Episode 7)
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TV Episode | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Masters

Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley (Season 13, Episode 7)

TV-14

TV Episode | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History

With its concentration of theaters and publishing houses, New York became the center of the music world and at the center of New York was a small area called Tin Pan Alley where musicians would play their songs for publishers.

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Updated Aug 18, 1999

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Aug 18, 1999 (United States)

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Won 27 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 31 wins & 81 nominations

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45 cast members

Name	Known for
Fred Astaire Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Towering Inferno (1974)
Irving Berlin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
William Bolcom Self Self See fewer	Great Performances (1971)
Oscar Brand Self Self See fewer	The Fox (1967)
Betty Buckley Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Split (IX) (2016)
Rosemary Clooney Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	White Christmas (1954)
Cy Coleman Self Self See fewer	Reminiscence (2021)
Perry Como Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1948)
Irene Dunne Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Awful Truth (1937)
Michael Feinstein Self Self See fewer	Untitled George Gershwin Project
Dorothy Fields Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Swing Time (1936)
Ella Fitzgerald Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Sphere (1998)
Philip Furia Self Self See fewer	Broadway: The American Musical (2004)
George Gershwin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Manhattan (1979)
Benny Goodman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Allied (2016)
Albert Hague Self Self See fewer	Space Jam (1996)
Oscar Hammerstein II Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	State Fair (1945)
Lorenz Hart Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Rita Hayworth Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Gilda (1946)
Edward Heyman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Hellboy (2004)
The Hi-Los Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
Jerome Kern Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Judy Kreston Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
David Lahm Self Self See fewer	Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1969)
Vee Lawnhurst Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Jimmy McHugh Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	North by Northwest (1959)
Nora Michaels Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
The Mills Brothers Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	Don't Look Up (2021)
Peter Mintun Self Self See fewer	Michael Feinstein's American Songbook (2010)
Max Morath Self Self See fewer	This Is Ragtime: The Birth of American Music
Joan Morris Self Self See fewer	Great Performances (1971)
Richard Renaldo Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Richard Rodgers Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Ginger Rogers Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Kitty Foyle (1940)
Randolph Scott Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Roberta (1935)
Nathaniel Shilkret Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Green Book (2018)
Frank Sinatra Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	From Here to Eternity (1953)
Gary Stevens Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Dana Suesse Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Russell Warner Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Mabel Wayne Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Katharine Weber Self Self See fewer	Sleeping (2008)
Robert White Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Deborah Winer Self (as Deborah Grace Winer) Self (as Deborah Grace Winer) See fewer	Taking Back Our Town (2001)
Artis Wodehouse Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)