W. C. Fields
T. Frothingill Bellows / S.B. Bellows
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The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938
- 1938 · Musical comedy · 1h 31m
The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount Pictures musical comedy film starring W. C. Fields and featuring Bob Hope. [3] Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film is the last in a series of Big Broadcast movies that were variety show anthologies. This film featured the debut of Hope's signature song, "Thanks for the Memory" by Ralph Rainger .
- over $1 million
- Boris Morros, (musical direction)
The Big Broadcast of 1938: Directed by Mitchell Leisen, James P. Hogan. With W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross. The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Mitchell Leisen, James P. Hogan
- 1938-03-09
The Big Broadcast of 1938. The S.S. Gigantic competes with the S.S. Colossal in a luxury liner race from New York to France. S.B. Bellows (W.C. Fields), the bumbling brother of the owner of the ...
- (3)
- Mitch Leisen
- Musical, Comedy
- W.C. Fields
McEvoy did not receive final writing credit. The film marked the feaure-film debut of Bob Hope (1903-2003) and the last of Paramount's Big Broadcast series. According to an article in New York Times, this was Fields's first role following a long illness. The sequence in which Kirsten Flagstad appears was filmed at the Eastern Service Studios at ...
- Mitchell Leisen, Edgar Anderson
- W. C. Fields
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In the 1938 edition of "The Big Broadcast" series, the plot involves a transatlantic race from New York City to Cherbourg, France between a new steamship, the S.S. Gigantic, and the S.S. Colossal. Radio M.C., Buzz Fielding (Bob Hope) is in jail because he cant pay alimony to his three former wives. Dorothy Wyndham (Dorothy Lamour), a potential ...
With the rejuvenated W.C. Fields at his inimitable best in a streamlined production which combines spectacle, melody and dance, Big Broadcast of 1938 is pictorially original and alluring.
