As a small boy living in York, England with my mum and dad (about 1943, I heard a noise, running to mum she held me (it was the radio, I had never heard a radio before), it ws Bing Crosby singing ' Don't Fence Me IN,) I would have been 3 yo.
My grandma kept a diary from 1931-33 and kept track of the movies she saw, and this was one of them. And here I am 90 years later watching it in the comfort of my home. I hope I can find more of the movies she listed so I can see them, too.
Early 1930s music at its best. I just saw the restored King of Jazz (1930), and now this. Wonderful and clever intro scenes. Bing had the same popularity as Presley and Sinatra did in their day. And pre-code to the max: Cab pretends to snort a "line" while he conducts!
Put all these legendary radio stars together performing some great musical vignettes, throw in some genuinely surreal moments, and what you get is a hugely entertaining movie. Leave it to a studio like Paramount during that wonderful pre-Code era to cut loose with something like this -- a live-action production that has all the spirit of their Betty Boop cartoons.
Wow-we this movie has the greatest acts ever, The Boswell Sister were making hits long before the Andrew Sisters, and the Mills Brothers are fabulous then there is Cab Calloway , Bing, Burns and Allen and I love Leila Hymas, SHE IS GEORGOUS!
You're welcome my previous account was taken down because of some random indians who accused me for stealing their videos and uploading them as my content even though all the videos belonged to me.
Love Old Time Radio and this Film 🎥! There's a weekly OTR show of the same name on my local NPR (WAMU DC/Ocean City, Maryland), which has been on for almost 40 years. They always promote this film as a way to look back at how the behind the scenes of OTR was done in the 1930s & beyond! A young Bing Crosby & George Burns 🔥. Wow this should be a study of the times!
What's not to like in 'The Big Broadcast'? I Love that early Jazz. I love Der Bingle. Cab Calloway is De, Key-at's Meow. Man could that cat move or what! For me the best number was from the shoeshine guy, slapping a fantastic rhythm with the shoeshine rag. Wow!. Double Wow!! Some great rhythm in this film to, some synchronized with the images. It's hard to believe now but Kate smith was a very great singing star in the days of radio. QUESTION....there is a movie where Cab Calloway and his orchestra are projected, giant size, on the side of a New York skyscraper, via a movie projector. Everyone is trying to stop it, I can't recall why but It's a comedic situation. Anybody out there know the movies name?
51:16 -- The brilliant guitarist Eddie Lang (Salvatore Massaro) was dead within a year. The piano is heard playing in this scene, but no one is seen playing it!
Wasn't Paramount in financial trouble when they made this film? It's still a good comedy, got a great cast. Trivia: on being interviewed by Skitch Henderson(?), Leo Robin reminisced the song "Please," when introduced, was pleasing everybody. Thank you, AMC.
@@cynthiapickett8577 Thank you. I read about Paramount's difficulty years ago. I thought I'd lost the memory of it. More trivia from a Sam Marx book: at a Paramount salesmen's convention, a bigshot speaker said MGM could loan them Clark Gable. Someone spoke up, "But will they give us Thalberg?" That line got a laugh.
That's how I found the film. However I'm planning re-uploading a better version with restored sound quality. I will try to find the rest of the credits. Thank you for mentioning it.
Thanks. Early 1930s music is uniquely enjoyable--just after electric recordings made it sound good and just before the coming of big swing bands spoiled it.
Hi there! Thank you for all the hard work you did to find and upload this film. I'm trying to find the best hi-res copy available to use in a documentary and I was curious if you came across a dvd or any other non-online format of this film? Thanks for any help you can offer!
As a small boy living in York, England with my mum and dad (about 1943, I heard a noise, running to mum she held me (it was the radio, I had never heard a radio before), it ws Bing Crosby singing ' Don't Fence Me IN,) I would have been 3 yo.
My grandma kept a diary from 1931-33 and kept track of the movies she saw, and this was one of them. And here I am 90 years later watching it in the comfort of my home. I hope I can find more of the movies she listed so I can see them, too.
Wow that sounds really exciting!
It is to some of us KLEO@@kleovouloschristofi
John Lennon was quoted as saying that Bing’s song Please was partial inspiration for Please Please Me.
Early 1930s music at its best. I just saw the restored King of Jazz (1930), and now this. Wonderful and clever intro scenes. Bing had the same popularity as Presley and Sinatra did in their day. And pre-code to the max: Cab pretends to snort a "line" while he conducts!
Cab Callaway doing mini the moocher in the blues brothers movie was pure gold, because 90% of the audience didn't know they were watching a legend
Almost going on an entire century now, everyone's already dead but the art remains as a piece of thier souls true immortality has been achieved
I totally agree with you!
This is spectacular❤!! Young Cab Calloway,Bing, Burns & Allen WOW!😊❤
What a great movie of the golden age of Hollywood 1932
This film was on PBS a few times in the 1980s. All of Bing's paramount films are hard to find. Thank so much for this!
My pleasure!
It's mostly Bing's 1930s films that are rare.
Universal needs to release this on DVD
like the rest of the movies in that series.
It would be great if they release a colorized HD version of this movie.
@@kleovouloschristofiNo. Colorization ruins the integrity of the original.
I keep coming back to watch this masterpiece!!
Nice to see a clear, clean print of the Mills Brothers.
Faaantastic. Cab great. Live radio was wonderful back then
Put all these legendary radio stars together performing some great musical vignettes, throw in some genuinely surreal moments, and what you get is a hugely entertaining movie. Leave it to a studio like Paramount during that wonderful pre-Code era to cut loose with something like this -- a live-action production that has all the spirit of their Betty Boop cartoons.
Wow-we this movie has the greatest acts ever, The Boswell Sister were making hits long before the Andrew Sisters, and the Mills Brothers are fabulous then there is Cab Calloway , Bing, Burns and Allen and I love Leila Hymas, SHE IS GEORGOUS!
The Boswell Sisters were from my home town of New Orleans.😊
Thanks for uploading this. Hard to find full versions of the kind of thing these days, so nice job.
You're welcome!! Thank you very much.
Some of the very best entertainers of the period...and beyond. This film is a treasure! Thank you so much.
This is astounding.
私が中学生1980年代の頃、ビング・クロスビーの大ファンでした
この映画の海賊盤soundtrackを買って音だけでその世界を想像して楽しんでました😊
à 8:35, le "scat" de Bing Crosby sur la chanson Dinah est une master class. Quelle précision, j'adore.
Thank you for uploading this!!
You're welcome my previous account was taken down because of some random indians who accused me for stealing their videos and uploading them as my content even though all the videos belonged to me.
Love Old Time Radio and this Film 🎥! There's a weekly OTR show of the same name on my local NPR (WAMU DC/Ocean City, Maryland), which has been on for almost 40 years. They always promote this film as a way to look back at how the behind the scenes of OTR was done in the 1930s & beyond! A young Bing Crosby & George Burns 🔥. Wow this should be a study of the times!
What's not to like in 'The Big Broadcast'? I Love that early Jazz. I love Der Bingle. Cab Calloway is De, Key-at's Meow. Man could that cat move or what! For me the best number was from the shoeshine guy, slapping a fantastic rhythm with the shoeshine rag. Wow!. Double Wow!! Some great rhythm in this film to, some synchronized with the images. It's hard to believe now but Kate smith was a very great singing star in the days of radio. QUESTION....there is a movie where Cab Calloway and his orchestra are projected, giant size, on the side of a New York skyscraper, via a movie projector. Everyone is trying to stop it, I can't recall why but It's a comedic situation. Anybody out there know the movies name?
YEP!
Kia ora, wow, great to hear diverse music at that time - plus loved Grace & George Burns wit, was so funny! Classic gems! Nga mihi T x
Been looking for this for a while, thanks a lot!
You're welcome!!
@@kleovouloschristofi By any chance do you happen to have "The Petty Girl" ( 1950) ?
@@cnault3244 Unfortunately I don't but I'll try to find it for you.
Thank you for uploading this movie. I used to see it on Channel 5 , KTLA , Los Angeles in the late 1960s , early 1970s.
You're welcome!! It took me 3 months research to find it.
@@kleovouloschristofi 👍
Probably the last time I saw it!
always great to listen to Kate Smith, and the Boswell Sisters, they could all sing
0:13 **Svengoolie opening sequence**
Geroge says working with Gracie it's you and the walls
51:16 -- The brilliant guitarist Eddie Lang (Salvatore Massaro) was dead within a year. The piano is heard playing in this scene, but no one is seen playing it!
So Bing's character belts his girlfriend and gives her a blackeye. Charming.
That struck me too, no pun intended.
It was a different era. What’s acceptable changes over time.
@@Me97202 That's always the excuse, isn't it?
Who knows maybe he did it to defend himself? After all let's not forget that she threw a vase at him.
@@kleovouloschristofi A man can restrain a woman without belting her in the face.
Hilarious opening 🤣😂😅😆!
HE'S EVERYONE'S TYPE 😭
What a COOL Grandma❤
Really want to see the full 'Too much Harmony' too
I'll try to find it.
Surprised by Cab Callaway's cocaine references. Yeow!
Wasn't Paramount in financial trouble when they made this film? It's still a good comedy, got a great cast. Trivia: on being interviewed by Skitch Henderson(?), Leo Robin reminisced the song "Please," when introduced, was pleasing everybody. Thank you, AMC.
Paramount almost went bankrupt at the time this movie 🎥🍿 was released; Mae West's first couple of films saved the studio in 1933.
@@cynthiapickett8577 Thank you. I read about Paramount's difficulty years ago. I thought I'd lost the memory of it. More trivia from a Sam Marx book: at a Paramount salesmen's convention, a bigshot speaker said MGM could loan them Clark Gable. Someone spoke up, "But will they give us Thalberg?" That line got a laugh.
Christofi, you cut off the second screen of credits. It's nice to have it all, including the exit music.
That's how I found the film. However I'm planning re-uploading a better version with restored sound quality. I will try to find the rest of the credits. Thank you for mentioning it.
Thanks. Early 1930s music is uniquely enjoyable--just after electric recordings made it sound good and just before the coming of big swing bands spoiled it.
The Boswell Sisters were great!! I wonder why they didn't go far (like the Andrews' Sisters). 🤔
23:00 - This looks a lot like the set Ernst Lubitsch used in his film Design for Living a couple years after this.
30:18 Lol Bings like “well that happened” 😐
He was getting on a bit when he chased Grace Kelly decades later.
The Big broadcast
Remember on I LOVE LUCY when Ricky sang the "MARRRRTHA" SONG and Lucy's crazy self would hit him cuz she thought it was part of the "Act'?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Kate smith is the mountain. Banned for plantation singing
29:00 welcome to hell, here's your accordion.
Nothing 😛😜 quite like pre-Code movies!
Gracie was a sweety.
Yeah she was so cute!!
Like NBC Radio
Do you have “Too Much Harmony” (1933)?
Unfortunately I don't but I have some other interesting films which I'm going to upload soon.
Hi there! Thank you for all the hard work you did to find and upload this film. I'm trying to find the best hi-res copy available to use in a documentary and I was curious if you came across a dvd or any other non-online format of this film? Thanks for any help you can offer!
Unfortunately that's the best quality I was able to find. If I do find a dvd or a HD version of the film I'll let you know.
@@kleovouloschristofi Amazing, thanks for getting back to me :)
God 66 downloaded
I have trouble understanding Gracie.
Παρακαλώ ενεργοποιήστε ελληνικά ή αγγλικά captions, εάν είναι δυνατόν εκ των υστέρων... Ευχαριστώ!
Μακάρι να μπορούσα δυστυχώς δεν ξέρω. Θα ψάξω να δω πώς μπορώ να το κάνω.
The good one is "The Big Broadcast of 1938". This one's sort of ok.
"Sort of", do not be weak!