Friday, November 6, 2015

The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)


THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1937  (1936)  
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    D: Mitchell Leisen
    Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, 
    Shirley Ross, Ray Milland, Martha Raye,
    Bob Burns, Frank Forest, Sam Hearn
Gracie's the owner of a company that manufactures golf balls. Benny's the producer of a radio variety show looking for a sponsor. Shirley Ross plays a girl from the sticks whose vocal skills are a perceived threat to the show's headliner, a crooner managed by agent Ray Milland. The movie's inconsequential, but it's not hard to watch. George (of course) plays Gracie's straight man, but in a movie like this, anybody who's not Gracie is playing Gracie's straight man.