Wake Up and Live (1937)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Music, Romance
Release: 1937-08-23
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writers: Harry Tugend , Jack Yellen , Curtis Kenyon , Dorothea Brande
Language: English
Stars: Walter Winchell , Ben Bernie , Alice Faye , Patsy Kelly , Ned Sparks , Jack Haley , Walter Catlett , Grace Bradley , Joan Davis , Leah Ray
Runtime: 91 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Il fantasma cantante (Italy) , O Despertar de Um Sonho (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Invisível Trovador (Brazil) , Vaagn op til Daad (Denmark) , Despierta y vive (Argentina) , Kummituslaulaja (Finland) , Wake Up and Live , Pletyka (Hungary) , Lev livet levande (Sweden) , Spøgelse-sangeren (Denmark) , De onzichtbare troubadour (Belgium) , Fantôme Radiophonique (France, French Republic) , Wake Up and Live (United States of America) , Fantôme radiophonique (Belgium)
Plot: Built around the publicity "feud" between newspaper-radio-gossip spreader Walter Winchell and band leader Ben Bernie, a radio star, Alice Huntley (Alice Faye), who does an advice-and-inspiration program, helps a mike-shy singer, Eddie Kane (Jack Haley) to success by tricking him into singing with Bernie's orchestra. Winchell uses it to expose Bernie as the trickster. But Kane becomes a great hit with the radio public, and falls in love with Alice. And Bernie and Winchell shake hands to show there's no business like show business and fabricated feuds.
IMDB:tt0029744