During the Universal newsreel segment, the copyright is MCMXL, which is 1940. It should be MCML, 1950.
Glad someone noticed the year MCMXL (1940) on the Universal Newsreel - in that same newsreel, Connie Mack was being lauded in a parade for 50 years managing: that would have been 1936.
The Lovesick Blues/Grand Ole Opry scene is set in 1949 when he made his debut. At the 1:00 mark in the video on Youtube of this scene, the guitar player is supposed to be Billy Byrd. However, the guitar he is playing wasn't built until 1951, by Garland Bigsby.
(At 00:24) As Audrey Williams approaches the microphone in the radio studio, you can clearly hear Hank say "She is slowly approaching the microscope" not "microphone." However, this is a deliberate joke by Hank, not an error.
It's also a reference to Audrey, and her conspicuous lack of singing talent, being metaphorically "put under a microscope." In other words, she's about to clearly demonstrate to everyone listening just how badly she sings.
It's also a reference to Audrey, and her conspicuous lack of singing talent, being metaphorically "put under a microscope." In other words, she's about to clearly demonstrate to everyone listening just how badly she sings.
At the Christmas party shown after Hank's first Grand Ole Opry performance. Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby" plays in the background. The song was released in October of 1953, around nine months after Hank Williams died.
Sections of the balcony at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee were removed in 1993 after a major renovation to the facility. Prior to 1993, the balcony extended to the sides of the main stage. The early 1950s scenes at the Ryman in this film show the post-1993 layout of the facility.
Hank reads a pulp-magazine story to Lycrecia in 1947, but the issue he is holding was published in November 1952.