Wake Up and Live

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8/23/1937
91
NR

It's the HOTCHA-TOPSA of HOWLARITY! (

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

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      • Geronimo1967

        Legend has it that wireless gossiper Walter Winchell and band leader Ben Bernie really did have a running feud. This film somewhat puts that myth to rest, but is does so in quite a quickly paced and amusing fashion. It all centres around "Eddie Kane" (Jack Haley) whom "Alice" (Alice Faye) tricks into singing for Bernie's band. 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? Winchell, especially, is on good form here with some solid one-liners (though it is very easy to see why he was a radio star; he has virtually no facial expression at all) and the musical numbers are entertaini...

        April 4, 2022

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