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Radio Days is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. It is a nostalgic look at the golden age of radio during the late 1930s and 1940s, focusing on a working-class family living in Rockaway Beach, New York.
Jan 30, 1987 · Radio Days: Directed by Woody Allen. With Mike Starr, Paul Herman, Don Pardo, Martin Rosenblatt. A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
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(The one legend Allen leaves out is the scandal of the kiddie-show host who growled "That oughta hold the little bastards" into an open mike.) "Radio Days" cuts back and forth between the adolescent hero's working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn and the glamorous radio world of Manhattan.
stories and in the overarching plot is the presence of the radio--it brought music, news, stories, escape, and comfort, made stars of everyday people, and was often the glue in families and relationships.
Dec 5, 2007 · Radio Days (1987) is Woody Allen's paean to the golden age of radio, a kaleidoscopic and autobiographical look at the radio programs that were an essential part of his childhood. Seth Green plays Allen's alter ego, an adolescent growing up surrounded by his extended family in Brooklyn during World War II.
A middle-aged man looks back on his childhood in Rockaway, N.Y., in a series of vignettes focused on the golden days of radio. Joe (Woody Allen), who narrates, is portrayed as a teenager in the...
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Apr 13, 2020 · Set in Rockaway at the outset of World War II, RADIO DAYS invites the audience to partake in the hilarious yet moving adventures of a family, whose...
Several generations of a family packed into a pre-War Rockaway house always have the radio on. The fearless Masked Avenger, breakfast-show socialites (and philanderers) Roger and Irene, and Sally the Cigarette Girl, are almost important as, say, whether the Pacific is a better ocean than the Atlantic, or even what your dad actually does for a ...
In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars. The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV.
