''A Great New Star'' is a 1952 musical sponsored film starring Dinah Shore, with her singing "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet" (at the time, she starred in a twice-weekly 15-minute musical interlude for Chevrolet on

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). It starts off with her singing "It's a Most Unusual Day", and then shows an ephemeral film being made. The ending has her singing the Chevrolet jingle with shots of

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cars and

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. It was made by the Jam Handy Organization.

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''A Great New Star''
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1952 films Sponsored films Chevrolet 1952 musical films Jam Handy Organization films Promotional films 1950s English-language films American musical films American short films 1950s American films {{Musical-film-stub