The Big Broadcast
The Big Broadcast is a 1932 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, and Leila Hyams.
Based on the play" Wild Waves" by William Ford Manley, the film is about a radio- singer who becomes a popular hit with audiences, but takes a casual approach to his career.
A casual affair leads to his dismissal, but his career is saved by the station manager who buys the station and gives him his job back.
The film co-stars George Burns and Gracie Allen in supporting roles.
" The Big Broadcast" was produced by Paramount Pictures and was the first in a series of four" Big Broadcast" movies.
Louis Halmy
Lou Halmy( June 23, 1911 – March 14, 2005) was a jazz musician and music arranger with Shep Fields and he appeared in" The Big Broadcast of 1938".
He was born in Budapest, Hungary.
He is credited on the sheet music as the arranger of Tequila.
The Big Broadcast of 1936
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.
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 Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel.
The film featured an early appearance by Dorothy Dandridge( as one of the Dandridge Sisters).
Uncredited roles include Jack Mulhall.
Glenn Miller appears as part of the Ray Noble Orchestra.
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.
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".
Although the film has not been released on DVD or VHS, it is available on various video sharing websites.
Shirley Ross
Shirley Ross( born Bernice Maude Gaunt, January 7, 1913 – March 9, 1975) was an American actress and singer, notable for her duet with Bob Hope," Thanks for the Memory" from" The Big Broadcast of 1938".
She appeared in 25 feature films between 1933 and 1945, including singing earlier and wholly different lyrics for the Rodgers and Hart song in" Manhattan Melodrama"( 1934) that later became" Blue Moon."
Leo Robin
Leo Robin( April 6, 1900 – December 29, 1984) was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter.
He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar- winning song" Thanks for the Memory", sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross in the film" The Big Broadcast of 1938".
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen (October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American director, art director, and costume designer.
Ed Walker (radio personality)
Ed Walker( April 23, 1932 – October 26, 2015) was a Washington, D.C., radio personality.
He hosted a weekly four- hour Sunday night program," The Big Broadcast", on WAMU- FM, featuring vintage radio programs from the 1930s to 1950s, such as" Gunsmoke The Jack Benny Show The Lone RangerFibber McGee and Molly", and" Superman".
Walker began hosting" The Big Broadcast" in 1990 when his friend John Hickman discontinued hosting due to illness; the show, which started in 1964 as" Recollections", was the longest running program on WAMU.
The show ranked first in its timeslot, and its audience was" remarkably young for a public radio crowd."
The Big Broadcast of 1937
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 only, 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.
It has yet to receive a DVD or VHS issue.
The Big Broadcast of 1938
The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount Pictures musical comedy film featuring W. C. Fields and Bob Hope.
Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film is the last in a series of "Big Broadcast" movies that were variety show anthologies.
This film featured the debut of Hope's signature song, "Thanks for the Memory" by Ralph Rainger.

Question: Which country the director of film The Big Broadcast Of 1938 is from?
Answer: American