Perhaps not so surprisingly, John Payne maintained that his favorite movie of all time was one of his own --
Miracle on 34th Street -- simply because it reflected his own strong and spiritual belief system. It was Payne, in fact, who pressured his studio (20th Century-Fox) to film it while putting up his own money...See full bio »
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Episode dated 7 October 1959
(1959)
(performer: "Every Little Movement" - uncredited, "Runnin' Wild" - uncredited, "The Continental" - uncredited, "I Can't Begin to Tell You" - uncredited, "You Say the Sweetest Things Baby" - uncredited, "K-K-K-Katy" - uncredited, "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" - uncredited, "It Happened in Sun Valley" - uncredited)
1946Movieland Magic
(short)
(performer: "The Good Old American Way" - uncredited)
1945The Dolly Sisters
(performer: "I Can't Begin to Tell You" - uncredited, "Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl" - uncredited, "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", "Arrah Go on, I'm Gonna Go Back to Oregon" - uncredited)
1940Tin Pan Alley
(performer: "You Say The Sweetest Things Baby" 1940, "America, I Love You" 1915 / "You Say The Sweetest Things Baby" 1940)
1940Star Dust
(performer: "Secrets in the Moonlight")
1939The Royal Rodeo
(short)
(performer: "Sons of the Plains Are We" - uncredited, "That's the Way to Be a Buckaroo" - uncredited, "The Good Old American Way" - uncredited)
1939Kid Nightingale
(performer: "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" 1930 - uncredited, "Hark, Hark, the Meadowlark" 1939 - uncredited, "Who Told You I Cared?" 1939 - uncredited, "Mother Machree" 1910 - uncredited, "Listen to the Mockingbird" 1855 - uncredited)
1938Garden of the Moon
(performer: "Garden of the Moon" 1938 - uncredited, "Love Is Where You Find It" 1938 - uncredited, "The Lady on the Two Cent Stamp" 1938 - uncredited, "Confidentially" 1938 - uncredited, "The Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish" 1938 - uncredited)
1938College Swing
(performer: "I Fall In Love With You Every Day", "What Did Romeo Say To Juliet?")
1937Love on Toast
(performer: "I'd Love to Play a Love Scene" - uncredited)
Back in 1937 while I was under contract to Paramount, I sang on a five-minute radio program with another contract player from Paramount. A girl who's done rather well since -- Betty Grable. Betty and I didn't do so well then, though. We couldn't find a sponsor and finally gave up the program. I sang low tenor -- or, should I say, high baritone.
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Trivia:
Direct descendant of John Howard Payne (1791-1852), composer of the classic song "Home, Sweet Home" ("Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.").
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