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Although Peggy had appeared in 1940s musical shorts and had a cameo performance in a 1950 Bing Crosby film, her first starring role in a feature film came with the Warner Bros. 1952 musical remake of its landmark early talkie The Jazz Singer. In it she performed two of her recent hits on Decca Records (Rodgers and Hart’s “Lover,” Cole Porter’s “Just One of Those Things”), introduced a new song (Sammy Fain and Jerry Seelen’s “I Hear the Music Now”), and even got to debut this song with her own words and music. A sequel of sorts to her hit “It’s a Good Day” from 1946, Peggy recorded “This Is a Very Special Day” for Decca on December 16, 1952. That same month her Jazz Singer co-star, Danny Thomas, recorded his own version for RCA Victor Records.