The Great American Broadcast

May 9, 1941

1h 30m

★ 5.4

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

Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yugoslavian who keeps blowing things up unintended. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver.

6.1

Uptown Saturday Night

Jul 26, 1974

Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

6.9

Let's Do It Again

Oct 11, 1975

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.

7.7

A Raisin in the Sun

May 28, 1961

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

5.6

For Pete's Sake

Jun 26, 1974

Henrietta Robbins borrows money from a loan shark to finance her husband's investment in the stock market. However, when their stock plummets, she scrambles to find a way to pay the money back.

7.4

Welcome Mr. Marshall!

Apr 4, 1953

A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.

7.1

Radio Days

Jan 30, 1987

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

6.3

Heavy Traffic

Aug 8, 1973

An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.

6.4

Carry On Nurse

Jan 30, 1959

In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who's a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell wants his bunion removed straight away, so after a couple of pints, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!

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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.

6.1

First Name: Carmen

Dec 1, 1983

The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the robbery she falls in love with a security guard. The film intercuts between Carmen's escape with the guard, her uncle's attempt to make a comeback film, and a string quartet attempting to perform Beethoven.

7.0

The Palm Beach Story

Aug 28, 1942

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

6.5

Nacho Libre

Jun 16, 2006

Ignacio, a disrespected cook at a Mexican monastery, can barely afford to feed the orphans who live there. Inspired by a local wrestling hero, he decides to moonlight as the not-so-famous Luchador "Nacho Libre" to earn money for the monastery -- not to mention the admiration of beautiful nun Sister Encarnación.

6.5

Private Parts

Mar 7, 1997

The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to his view from the top. Possessing a desire to be an on-air personality since childhood, Stern meanders through the radio world, always with his supportive wife, Alison, by his side. Landing a gig in Washington, D.C., Stern meets Robin Quivers, who will become his long-time partner in crime. When the two move to New York, they face the wrath of NBC executives.

7.7

When We Were Kings

Oct 25, 1996

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.

5.0

Love Station

Dec 8, 2011

Single coworkers at a radio station are brought together by mutual friends, but their starry-eyed notions about love may scuttle their romance.

4.9

Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons

Sep 28, 2018

Four promiscuous businessmen must scheme to save the poor people of a village after a corrupt politician challenges them.