The Great American Broadcast

May 9, 1941

1h 30m

★ 5.0

THE GAYEST MUSICAL OF THEM ALL! 7 NEW SONG HITS!

Overview

After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Romance

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

The Great American Broadcast Trailers

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Cast

Vicki Adams

Alice Faye

Chuck Hadley

Jack Oakie

Rix Martin

John Payne

Bruce Chadwick

Cesar Romero

Singer

James Newill

Song Specialty

Charles Fuqua

Song Specialty

Hoppy Jones

Minor Role

Poppy Wilde

Railroad Station Dancer

Fayard Nicholas

Railroad Station Dancer

Harold Nicholas

It’s This American Life’s wildest, most ambitious live show ever! Nearly 50 actors, singers, dancers, musicians and comedians joined Ira Glass onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House on June 7th, 2014 to try some things they'd never tried before. The result? Journalism turned into opera, into plays, into a Broadway musical. Comedy from Mike Birbiglia, and SNL’s Sasheer Zamata. Songs from Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. Dance from Monica Bill Barnes & Company.

4.2

Girl in the Cadillac

Oct 24, 1995

A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.

2.0

Adventures in Spying

Dec 6, 1992

Two teens spot a notorious criminal who is supposed to be dead.

7.0

Smokey and the Bandit

May 27, 1977

A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.

6.9

Barfly

Sep 2, 1987

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.

4.2

Anthem

Jul 21, 1993

A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.

0.0

Sweet Potato Pie

Jul 4, 2004

Determined to lose their virginities, three friends set off on a lust-fuelled road trip full of hilariously desperate bids to get laid.

7.1

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Dec 14, 1988

Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.

6.6

U Turn

Oct 3, 1997

When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both.

7.1

Suspicion

Nov 14, 1941

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

3.6

My Woman

Oct 4, 1933

A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.

5.9

The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest

Jun 28, 2002

Andy, a successful marketing guy quits his job, gets a new job at a research facility, makes a powerful enemy who makes him volunteer for a nearly impossible project: The $99 PC. The only available guys at the lab, three sociopaths, together they compile a revolutionary PC for $99, then they become the victims of a venture capitalist and Andy's old foe, can he find a way to overcome the problems?

5.6

Sour Grapes

Apr 17, 1998

The bond between cousins is tested when one wins a fortune with the other's money at Atlantic City.

7.5

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Apr 9, 1936

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

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0.0

Hot Money

Nov 16, 1935

A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.

5.7

Hi, Good Lookin'!

Mar 22, 1944

An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.

5.2

People Are Funny

Jan 11, 1946

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

0.0

Truth Unspoken

Jun 11, 2013

Romantic misunderstandings abound with tempestuous couple Jay and Tracy, as Jay plans on proposing marriage, only to discover that Tracy has been cheating. Soon Tracy learns, however, that Jay has secrets of his own.

5.3

Haunted Honeymoon

Jul 25, 1986

Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech problems and, seeking out an unconventional cure, he returns to his boyhood home, a mansion in the countryside, bringing Vickie along. Larry reunites with numerous family members, but discovers that there are sinister things afoot within the walls of the creepy estate.