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The Big Broadcast of 1936 is a american film of genre Musical directed by Norman Taurog released in USA on 20 september 1935 with Bing Crosby

The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

The Big Broadcast of 1936
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Released in USA 20 september 1935
Length 1h37
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Musical
Rating57% 2.856062.856062.856062.856062.85606

The Big Broadcast of 1936 is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Norman Taurog, and is the second in the series of Big Broadcast movies.

The musical comedy starred Jack Oakie, Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, The Nicholas Brothers, Lyda Roberti, Wendy Barrie, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Akim Tamiroff, Amos 'n' Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll), Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel. The film featured an early appearance by Dorothy Dandridge (as one of the Dandridge Sisters). Glenn Miller appears as part of the Ray Noble Orchestra. In Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (1974), George Thomas Simon noted that Glenn Miller was paid extra by Ray Noble "for working on The Big Broadcast of 1936, so that Glenn's total weekly pay" was $356. Uncredited roles include Jack Mulhall.

The screenplay was by Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin, Ralph Spence, and Julius J. Epstein, who was uncredited.

The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Dance Direction by LeRoy Prinz for "It's the Animal in Me".

Although the film has not been released on DVD or VHS, it is available on various video sharing websites.

Synopsis

Radio station W.H.Y. owner Spud Miller (Jack Oakie), also functions as the station's only announcer while his comic partner Smiley Goodwin (Henry Wadsworth) serves as the house singer, Lochinvar, The Great Lover, "the idol of millions of women." Both Spud and Smiley play the role of Lochinvar. Facing the prospect of bankruptcy, Spud welcomes the suggestions of George Burns and Gracie Allen, who attempt to sell an invention, The Radio Eye, invented by Gracie Allen's uncle, a television device which can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere. Burns and Allen ask Miller for an advance of $5,000 for the invention. Spud decides to enter an international broadcast competition with a prize of $250,000.

Actors

Bing Crosby

(Bing)Jack Oakie

(Spud Miller)George Burns

(George)Gracie Allen

(Gracie)Ethel Merman

(Ethel Merman)
And :
Lyda Roberti
C. Henry Gordon
Wendy Barrie
Mary Boland
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