Walter DeLeon Francis Martin Ralph Spence Jack Mintz
Produced by
Benjamin Glazer
Starring
Jack Oakie Bing Crosby George Burns Gracie Allen Ethel Merman The Nicholas Brothers Lyda Roberti Wendy Barrie Mary Boland Charlie Ruggles Akim Tamiroff
Cinematography
Leo Tover
Edited by
Ellsworth Hoagland
Music by
John Leipold
Production company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date
September 20, 1935 (1935-09-20)
Running time
97 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
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.[1] The musical comedy starred Jack Oakie, Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, The Nicholas Brothers, Lyda Roberti, Wendy Barrie, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, Akim Tamiroff, Amos 'n' Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll), Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel.
Glenn Miller appears as part of the Ray Noble Orchestra. Their performance was filmed at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York. 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.[2] The screen appearance of the Ray Noble orchestra was edited down to a very brief scene on the "televisor". 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".[3] Although the film has not been released on DVD or VHS, it is available on various video sharing websites.
^Hark, Ina Rae. American Cinema of the 1930s: Themes and Variations. Rutgers University Press, 2007, p. 10.
^Simon, George Thomas. Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. Da Capo paperback reprint, 2000. On page 72, Simon noted that Glenn Miller was paid extra by Ray Noble for his appearance in the movie The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935) with the Ray Noble Orchestra.
^IMDb entry for the film.
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