The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

Directors

Norman Taurog

Cast

Jack Oakie, Henry Wadsworth, George Burns, Gracie Allen

The story

Radio station W.H.Y. owner Spud Miller, also functions as the station's only announcer while his comic partner Smiley Goodwin serves as the house singer, Lochinvar, The Great Lover, "the idol of millions of women." Both Spud and Smiley play the role of Lochinvar. Facing the prospect of bankruptcy, Spud welcomes the suggestions of George Burns and Gracie Allen, who attempt to sell an invention, The Radio Eye, invented by Gracie Allen's uncle, a television device which can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.

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