The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936) | |
| Director(s) | Mitchell Leisen |
| Producer(s) | |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Musical |
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The Big Broadcast of 1937 Overview:
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Mitchell Leisen .
SYNOPSIS
Comedy featuring Burns and Allen as a husband-and-wife radio team. The station they work at is failing, and they need to put on a big show that will put them on top of the ratings and save the day (and the radio station). Part of a series with the same title that featured the big radio stars of the day.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
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Musical Monday: The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
on Apr 28, 2025 From Comet Over HollywoodIt?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1... Read full article
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Shortly after arriving in the US from Germany, Oskar Fischinger was contracted by Paramount Pictures to create an animated sequence (in Technicolor or Gasparcolor; sources differ) for this movie. The movie was scored to a jazz piece, "Radio Dynamics", by studio musician Ralph Rainger. Unfortunately, Paramount switched the production to black-and-white, and Fischinger's animation became a sequence within the film, showing consumer products emanating from a radio broadcasting tower, rather than pure abstract imagery. Fischinger later released his color version as Allegretto.
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