The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
October 5, 1936Release Date
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
October 5, 1936Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Jack Benny
Jack Carson
George Burns
Mr. Platt
Gracie Allen
Mrs. Platt
Bob Burns
Bob Black
Martha Raye
Patsy
Shirley Ross
Gwen Holmes
Ray Milland
Bob Miller
Frank Forest
Frank Rossman
Benny Fields
Benny Fields
Stan Kavanaugh
Kavvy
Barry Trivers
Writer
Sam Hearn
Schlepperman
Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
Mitchell Leisen
Director
Virginia Weidler
Flowergirl
Walter DeLeon
Writer
David Holt
Trainbearer
Francis Martin
Writer
Gene Krupa
Band Drummer
Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski
Erwin S. Gelsey
Writer
Billy Bletcher
Property Man
Arthur Kober
Writer
Frank Jenks
Trombone Player
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The 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). It was in this film that Leopold Stokowski made his movie debut conducting two of his Bach transcriptions. Uncredited roles include Jack Mulhall.
German animator Oskar Fischinger was hired to create an animation sequence in Technicolor. However, when Paramount changed the production to black-and-white, 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.