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Edwin Blum (writer)
Robert Ellis (writer)
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Release Date:
9 May 1941 (USA) more
Plot:
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on... more | add synopsis
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A Fox musical starring the usual suspects more (9 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Alice Faye | ... | Vicki Adams |
| John Payne | ... | Rix Martin |
| Jack Oakie | ... | Chuck Hadley |
 | Cesar Romero | ... | Bruce Chadwick |
| James Newill | ... | Great American Broadcast Lead Singer |
| Charles Fuqua | ... | Himself / Song Specialty (as The Ink Spots) |
| Hoppy Jones | ... | Himself / Song Specialty (as The Ink Spots) |
| Bill Kenny | ... | Himself / Song Specialty (as The Ink Spots) |
| Deek Watson | ... | Himself / Song Specialty (as The Ink Spots) |
| Fayard Nicholas | ... | Railroad Station Dance Specialty (as The Nicholas Brothers) |
| Harold Nicholas | ... | Railroad Station Dance Specialty (as The Nicholas Brothers) |
| Harry Wiere | ... | Chapman's Cheerful Chappies / The Stradivarians (as The Wiere Brothers) |
| Herbert Wiere | ... | Chapman's Cheerful Chappies / The Stradivarians (as The Wiere Brothers) |
| Sylvester Wiere | ... | Chapman's Cheerful Chappies / The Stradivarians (as The Wiere Brothers) |
| Mary Beth Hughes | ... | Chuck's Secretary |
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90 min
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Original 1919 Jess Willard-Jack Dempsey fight film footage used. more
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Anachronisms: Although the story takes place in 1919, and the years immediately following, all of Alice Faye's clothes and hairstyles are strictly in the 1941 mode, as are also those of Mary Beth Hughes and the other female members of the cast; the musical arrangements of Faye's featured songs are also in the contemporary 1941 style. more
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Featured in Take It or Leave It (1944) more
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Sabre and Spurs more
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Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, and Cesar Romero are part of "The Great American Broadcast," a 1941 20th Century Fox musical about the beginning of radio broadcasting. It's complete fiction, of course, but peppered with some wonderful singing by Faye and the Ink Spots, magnificent dancing by the Nicholas Brothers, and some good comedy bits by the Wiere Brothers.
Payne and Oakie play partners in a radio venture, financed by Romero. They're both in love with the pretty Faye. You've seen this plot a million times.
This is worth seeing for the cast. Romero is very elegant as the money man, Chuck, Payne is handsome and sings well, and Oakie is extremely likable. Besides the specialty numbers, there is footage of the Dempsey-Willard fight in 1919.
The older folks will especially love this one.