The Big Broadcast of 1938
Summary:
Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar, The Shep Fields Orchestra, and opera singer Kirsten Flagstad are hardly household names today), but a slightly stronger storyline than the others, as well as a top-notch comic cast. This time out, most of the action takes place as sea, as S.B. Bellows (W.C. Fi... Full Summary >>
Cast:
W.C. Fields - (S.B. Bellows/T. Frothingill Bellows)
Martha Raye - (Martha Bellows)
Dorothy Lamour - (Dorothy Wyndham)
Shirley Ross - (Cleo Fielding)
Lynne Overman - (Scoop McPhail)
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Review:
Released on DVD along with College Swing (1938), The Big Broadcast of 1938 is an expected hit and miss affair but with more misses than hits. Among the few highlights are W.C. Fields (no surprise there), who updates some of his oldest sketches and ad libs with accustomed abandon; Martha Raye all but knocking herself out in a jazzy produ... Continue >>
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