Academy Award Performance: And the Envelope, Please 34 seconds of the song "Thanks for the Memory" then fades into the next song ("The Continental," the oldest movie theme on this album). "Thanks for the Memory" is also the last track on the album and continues where it left off but fades immediately after the next verse. There were two singles to come from this album: "We May Never Love Like This Again" (from "The Towering Inferno", which was a minor hit for McGovern one year before) and "The Continental" (from the 1934 film "The Gay Divorcee", which was the very first song to ever win an Oscar).
Lillian Miles Lillian Miles Lillian Miles (August 1, 1907 – February 27, 1972) was an American actress in several films in the 1930s. Miles was born in 1907 in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Aside from singing and performing in the celebrated 'Continental' musical number in "The Gay Divorcee" (1934), starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Miles's film career was brief, unremarkable, and confined to low-budget 'B' pictures. However, she has something of a cult following nowadays for her performance in the infamous anti-dope exploitation movie "Reefer Madness," made in 1936. It is she who appears in the film's most remembered sequence, playing an increasingly