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Wake Up and Live: Directed by Sidney Lanfield. With Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye, Patsy Kelly. Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Wake Up and Live is a 1937 Fox musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, starring Jack Haley and Alice Faye plus Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie as themselves.
Sure enough, she becomes pregnant, is ostracized by her small-town family, moves to New York City to live with her "modern" Aunt Julia (a wonderful Billie Burke), gets a job, and anxiously awaits Boles' return from the war.
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May 17, 2022 · Ben Bernie (himself) is about to take the stage with his band at a trendy New York City club when Walter Winchell (himself), a wise-cracking gossip reporter, make some choice quips at Ben's expense in front of the audience.
Wake up and Live 1937 1 of 6. Jack Haley and Grace Bradley are a pair of vaudevillians who travel to New York hoping to cash in on the fact that Haley's sister Patsy Kelly is Walter...
Built around the publicity "feud" between newspaper-radio-gossip spreader Walter Winchell and band leader Ben Bernie, a radio star, Alice Huntley (Alice Faye), who does an advice-and-inspiration program, helps a mike-shy singer, Eddie Kane (Jack Haley) to success by tricking him into singing with Bernie's orchestra.
Winchell sees a chance to show up his rival as the would-be singer won't pick up a live microphone so is monikered "The Phantom". Can she get him to fulfil his true potential and, of course, can he get the gal?
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Wake Up and Live is a 1937 American musical movie directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Walter Wichell, Alice Faye, Ben Bernie, Patsy Kelly, Ned Sparks, Joan Davis. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox and was based on the novel of the same name by Dorothea Brande.
