Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Directed by	Alfred E. Green
Produced by	Mervyn LeRoy
Written by	William Wister Haines Elaine Ryan Clarence Budington Kelland (story The Great Crooner)
Starring	Kenny Baker Frank McHugh Alice Brady
Music by	Adolph Deutsch (uncredited)
Cinematography	Arthur Edeson
Edited by	Thomas Richards
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	August 21, 1937 (1937-08-21)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air is a 1937 American musical comedy film that was nominated at the 10th Academy Awards in the category of Best Song. The song was called Remember Me, and the nominees were composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin.^[1]

Plot summary

A small town electrician becomes a hit singer in New York. When he was asked to sing for a local radio program. Where he gets involved with a gold digger, a thief, an opera singer and the woman he loves. After suffering from bronchitis he uses another voice to still be on the air but then everyone calls him a fake.

Cast

Kenny Baker as Claude L. Dodd
Frank McHugh as 'Sniffer' Sears
Alice Brady as Mme. Sonia Moro
Gertrude Michael as Jessica Stafford
Jane Wyman as Marjorie Day
John Eldredge as Jim Lidin
Henry O'Neill as D.M. Gateway
Harry Davenport as Doc Jeremiah George Quinn
Ferris Taylor as Hiram P. Doremus
Linda Perry as Information Desk Girl

References

↑ "The 10th Academy Awards (1938) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved April 2, 2014.

External links

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air at the Internet Movie Database
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air at the TCM Movie Database
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air at AllMovie

Films directed by Alfred E. Green

Silk Husbands and Calico Wives (1920)
Through the Back Door (1921)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
The Bachelor Daddy (1922)
Our Leading Citizen (1922)
The Ghost Breaker (1922)
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922)
Back Home and Broke (1922)
The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923)
Woman-Proof (1923)
Pied Piper Malone (1924)
In Hollywood With Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
Inez from Hollywood (1924)
Sally (1925)
The Man Who Found Himself (1925)
The Girl from Montmartre (1926)
Irene (1926)
Ella Cinders (1926)
Disraeli (1929)
The Green Goddess (1930)
The Man From Blankley's (1930)
Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
Old English (1930)
Men of the Sky (1931)
The Road to Singapore (1931)
Smart Money (1931)
Union Depot (1932)
It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)
The Rich Are Always With Us (1932)
The Dark Horse (1932)
Silver Dollar (1932)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
Baby Face (1933)
I Loved a Woman (1933)
Dark Hazard (1934)
Housewife (1934)
A Lost Lady (1934)
Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
Sweet Music (1935)
The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935)
The Goose and the Gander (1935)
Dangerous (1935)
Colleen (1936)
They Met in a Taxi (1936)
The Golden Arrow (1936)
Two in a Crowd (1936)
More Than a Secretary (1936)
The League of Frightened Men (1937)
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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)
Let's Get Married (1937)
Ride a Crooked Mile (1938)
The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
King of the Turf (1939)
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Shooting High (1940)
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A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
The Jolson Story (1946)
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
Copacabana (1947)
Four Faces West (1948)
Cover Up (1949)
Sierra (1949)
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