The Big Broadcast of 1938
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The Big Broadcast of 1938 was a Paramount Pictures production directed by Mitchell Leisen and the last in a series of Big Broadcast movies that were variety show anthologies. This film featured the debut of Bob Hope's signature song, Thanks for the Memory, which his character sings as a duet with Shirley Ross.
The film had many other stars of the era, a wide variety of acts ranging from the comedy of W. C. Fields to a powerful performance of Ride of the Valkyries by Metropolitan Opera singer Kirsten Flagstad in full Brunhilde armor and horned helmet.
[edit] Cast
- W.C. Fields... T. Frothingill Bellows
- Martha Raye... Martha Bellows
- Dorothy Lamour... Dorothy Wyndham
- Shirley Ross... Cleo Fielding
- Lynne Overman... Scoop McPhail
- Bob Hope... Buzz Fielding
- Ben Blue... Mike
- Leif Erickson... Bob Hayes
- Kirsten Flagstad... Herself
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