The 1952 Singin’ in the Rain was Golden Globes-nominated as best musical or comedy, but With a Song in My Heart won. It was a popular choice for the voters, who also gave Susan Hayward the best actress in a comedy or musical and anointed her World Film Favorite. With a Song in My Heart is the story of singer Jane Froman’s valiant comeback after a military plane crash, which left her in a wheelchair. The film was Twentieth Century Fox’s major musical of the year and followed a long line of successful Fox musicals that starred their top money earners Betty Grable, Alice Faye, June Haver, and Mitzi Gaynor. Studio head Darryl F. Zanuck assembled his contract talent to make this film, including director Henry King, screenwriter Lamar Trotti, music director Alfred Newman and cinematographer Leon Shamroy plus two contract actors, Hayward and Thelma Ritter. Thanks to Froman, whose vocals were used in the film, the film holds up as a terrific entertainment, featuring great songs of that era: the work of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (their title song and “Blue Moon”) Harold Arlen, Jule Styne, George and Ira Gershwin, Sammy Fain, and Vincent Youmans. Although Singin’ in the Rain has been voted the best musical of all time, and even the fourth greatest movie ever made (1982 British Film Institute poll), its initial reception was not quite as auspicious. Even the Academy recognized only Jean Hagen as best supporting actress and Lennie Hayton for best score that year, and the film itself was not nominated.