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UCLA Festival of Preservation
THE BIG BROADCAST
United States | 1932 | Frank Tuttle
Bing Crosby croons, Cab Calloway performs “Kickin’ the Gong Around,” and Burns and Allen crack wise in this Pre-Code revue movie about an all-star show intended to save a floundering radio station. This was Crosby’s first starring movie role, and the film proved so popular that three more Big Broadcast films (of 1936, 1937, 1938) followed. With Kate Smith, the Mills Brothers, et al. Newly restored 35mm print! 80 min. Preceded at 5:00 by Victor Saville’s 7-min. Me and the Boys (UK, 1929, 35mm), a “soundie” in which you can spot a 20-year-old Benny Goodman playing the clarinet.
Special admission $10; members, CIA & CSU I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners. 35mm preservation prints courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funding for The Big Broadcast provided by the Packard Humanities Institute and Universal Pictures. Preservation funding for Me and the Boys provided by Dudley Heer, Frank Buxton and Cynthia Sears, Hugh Hefner, and Mark Cantor.
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