Harriet Hilliard singing "Get Thee Behind Me Satan" in the musical 'Follow The Fleet' in 1936. "Follow the Fleet" (RKO) is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. The film was directed by Mark Sandrich with script by Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor based on the 1922 play Shore Leaveby Hubert Osborne. Follow the Fleet was extremely successful at the box office, and during 1936, Astaire's recorded versions of "Let Yourself Go", "I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket", and "Let's Face the Music and Dance" reached their highest positions of 3rd, 2nd, 3rd respectively in the US Hit Parade. Harriet Hilliard and Tony Martin made their screen debuts in this film. "Harriet Hilliard" (Harriet Nelson) (July 18, 1909 - October 2, 1994) was an American singer and actress. Nelson is best known for her role on the long-running sitcom The Adven! tures of Ozzie and Harriet. She was born Peggy Lou Snyder in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1932, she was performing in vaudeville when she met the saxophone-playing bandleader Ozzie Nelson. Nelson hired her to sing with the band, under the name Harriet Hilliard. They married three years later. Hilliard had a respectable film career as a solo performer, apart from the band. RKO Radio Pictures signed her to a one-year contract in 1936, and she appeared in three feature films, the most famous being the Fred ...
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