The Big Broadcast of 1938


The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount Pictures film featuring W.C. Fields and Bob Hope. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film is the last in a series of Big Broadcast movies that were variety show anthologies. This film featured the debut of Hopes signature song, Thanks for the Memory by Ralph Rainger.

However S.B., who is held back due to a golf game, ends up flying over the ocean to meet the Colossal en route and mistakenly lands aboard the deck of the Gigantic instead, much to the consternation of Captain Stafford Russell Hicks. Matters are made worse for the Gigantic when S.B.s outrageously unlucky daughter Martha Martha Raye is brought onboard, being rescued after surviving the shipwreck of the yacht, Hesperus V.Popular OBC radio emcee Buzz Fielding Bob Hope, who has just been released from alimony jail and is broadcasting live from the Gigantic, is trying to juggle his three exwives Cleo Shirley Ross, Grace Grace Bradley, and Joan Lorna Gray his lukewarm girlfriend Dorothy Wyndham Dorothy Lamour and his inept microphone assistant Mike Ben Blue. Buzz does his best throughout the voyage to announce the progress of the race and introduce a series of musical acts for the pleasure of the passengers and OBCs radio audience. ........

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