The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)

Directed by

Mitchell Leisen, Norman Taurog

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A radio station puts on a big broadcast with musical performances and comedy sketches. A group of entertainers and celebrities appear in this variety show style film.

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What happens

The Big Broadcast of 1937 is a 1936 Paramount Pictures production directed by Mitchell Leisen, and is the third in the series of Big Broadcast movies. The musical comedy stars Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, Ray Milland, Benny Fields, Frank Forest and the orchestra of Benny Goodman (featuring Gene Krupa). It was in this film that Leopold Stokowski made his movie debut conducting two of his Bach transcriptions. Uncredited roles include Jack Mulhall. German animator Oskar Fischinger was hired to create an animation sequence in Technicolor. However, when Paramount changed the production to black-and-white, Fischinger's original abstract animation design was changed to a hybrid animation and live-action sequence showing consumer products emanating from a broadcasting tower, to the song "Radio Dynamics" by Ralph Rainger. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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