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The Big Broadcast of 1937 is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen released in USA on 5 october 1936 with Jack Benny
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
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Add to a movie listThe 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). Uncredited roles include Jack Mulhall. The version shown in British cinemas also included clips featuring Richard Tauber and the Vienna Boys Choir, not in the original American version.
German animator Oskar Fischinger was hired to create an animation sequence in Technicolor. However, when Paramount changed the production to black-and-white only, 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.
It has yet to receive a DVD or VHS issue.
Actors
Jack Benny
(Jack Carson)
George Burns
(Mr. Platt)
Gracie Allen
(Mrs. Platt)
Bob Burns
(Bob Black)
Bob Burns
(Bob Black)
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