The early fifties was the time period that the Singer distributor in America, Bill Vaughan, sought to boost publicity by posing celebrities with the cars. In this instance he even got a product placement in the only movie in which Mamie Van Doren and Richard Long (below) ever appeared together.
The only other American made movie that I can think of that had a Singer Roadster in it - however briefly - was the original 1955 The Fast and the Furious, which featured a short scene with a privately owned Singer 4AD 1500, shown here being sandwiched in by a 1952 Kaiser Manhattan in front, and a 1952-3 Nash Healey in the rear:
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