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Radio City Revels is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Bob Burns, Jack Oakie and Ann Miller. The film's sets were designed by the art director Van Nest Polglase. Although set in New York City, specifically at Radio City, much of the film was shot in RKO's California studios.
Radio City Revels: Directed by Benjamin Stoloff. With Bob Burns, Jack Oakie, Kenny Baker, Ann Miller. A songwriter uses the songs one of his pupils writes while sleeping for his own contract.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Benjamin Stoloff
- 1938-02-11
Radio City Revels When the dance partners moved on instead to The Gay Divorcee (1944), this project went into turnaround, finally surfacing four years later, with musical numbers choreographed by Astaire and Rogers' frequent dance coach Hermes Pan.
- Ben Stoloff
- Bob Burns
Struggling Broadway songwriting team Harry (Jack Oakie) and Teddy (Milton Berle) transcribe Lester's songs while he snoozes on their couch, then pass them off to big-shot producer Paul Plummer ...
- Musical, Comedy
- Bob 'Bazooka' Burns
- Benjamin Stoloff
May 9, 2014 · Radio City Revels (1938) is not a great musical comedy, but it is an interesting one: originally conceived as a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical, it’s burdened by over length (at ninety minutes it could have used some trimming) and some mediocre songs that you probably won’t wind up humming any time soon.
Radio City Revels. Summaries. A songwriter uses the songs one of his pupils writes while sleeping for his own contract. Washed-up songwriter Harry Miller and his neighbor, dancer Billie Shaw, are insolvent despite efforts to find work in radio. But Harry is visited by his "student," hillbilly Lester Robin, who can only write songs in his dreams.
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy. Matt Brooks. Screenplay, Story.
