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Alô, América!

Título original: The Great American Broadcast
  • 1941
  • 1 h 30 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
6,6/10
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Cesar Romero, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, and The Ink Spots in Alô, América! (1941)
ComédiaEsporteMusicalRomance

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaAfter WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring ever... Ler tudoAfter WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.

  • Direção
    • Archie Mayo
  • Roteiristas
    • Don Ettlinger
    • Edwin Blum
    • Robert Ellis
  • Artistas
    • Alice Faye
    • Jack Oakie
    • John Payne
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,6/10
    297
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Archie Mayo
    • Roteiristas
      • Don Ettlinger
      • Edwin Blum
      • Robert Ellis
    • Artistas
      • Alice Faye
      • Jack Oakie
      • John Payne
    • 14Avaliações de usuários
    • 2Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
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    Alice Faye
    Alice Faye
    • Vicki Adams
    Jack Oakie
    Jack Oakie
    • Chuck Hadley
    John Payne
    John Payne
    • Rix Martin
    Cesar Romero
    Cesar Romero
    • Bruce Chadwick
    James Newill
    James Newill
    • Singer
    Charles Fuqua
    • Song Specialty
    The Ink Spots
    • The Four Ink Spots
    • (as The Four Ink Spots)
    Hoppy Jones
    • Song Specialty
    Bill Kenny
    • Ink Spots Member
    Deek Watson
    • Song Specialty
    The Nicholas Brothers
    The Nicholas Brothers
    • Dancers
    • (as Nicholas Brothers)
    Fayard Nicholas
    Fayard Nicholas
    • Railroad Station Dance Specialty
    • (as The Nicholas Brothers)
    Harold Nicholas
    Harold Nicholas
    • Railroad Station Dance Specialty
    • (as The Nicholas Brothers)
    The Wiere Brothers
    The Wiere Brothers
    • Dancers
    • (as Wiere Brothers)
    Mary Beth Hughes
    Mary Beth Hughes
    • Secretary
    Harry Wiere
    • Chapman's Cheerful Chappies
    • (as The Wiere Brothers)
    • …
    Eula Morgan
    • Madame Rinaldi
    Herbert Wiere
    • Chapman's Cheerful Chappies
    • (as The Wiere Brothers)
    • …
    • Direção
      • Archie Mayo
    • Roteiristas
      • Don Ettlinger
      • Edwin Blum
      • Robert Ellis
    • Elenco e equipe completos
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    6blanche-2

    A Fox musical starring the usual suspects

    Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, and Cesar Romero are part of "The Great American Broadcast," a 1941 20th Century Fox musical about the beginning of radio broadcasting. It's complete fiction, of course, but peppered with some wonderful singing by Faye and the Ink Spots, magnificent dancing by the Nicholas Brothers, and some good comedy bits by the Wiere Brothers.

    Payne and Oakie play partners in a radio venture, financed by Romero. They're both in love with the pretty Faye. You've seen this plot a million times.

    This is worth seeing for the cast. Romero is very elegant as the money man, Chuck, Payne is handsome and sings well, and Oakie is extremely likable. Besides the specialty numbers, there is footage of the Dempsey-Willard fight in 1919.

    The older folks will especially love this one.
    6ilprofessore-1

    Modest but thoroughly enjoyable

    Even back in the early 1940s when MGM was dazzling the world with their spectacular Technicolor musicals, Twentieth Century Fox under Daryl Zanuck's direction was still turning out modest B&W musicals like this one about the early days of radio. No breath-taking dance numbers but lots of pretty if ultimately forgettable songs by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren, enjoyable specialty numbers by the Ink Spots and the incomparable Nicholas Brothers (as railroad porters!); and even a parody radio commercial sung with German accents by those madcap expatriates from the Berlin cabarets, the Wiere Brothers (the poor man's Ritz Bros.) The fast-moving plot is expertly directed by the usually lethargic Archie Mayo with lots of gags and even a bit of pathos from Jack Oakie, and enough romance between handsome John Payne and adorable Alice Faye to keep the girls in the audience happy. Fans of big studio high-style glamor cinematography will enjoy the gorgeous close-ups of Alice Faye lit by J.P. Marley and Leon Shamroy. Mike Frankovitch, who was one day to become president of Columbia Pictures, can be seen briefly as a radio announcer.
    8bkoganbing

    Great Musical, but not the history of the origin of radio

    The Great American Broadcast marks the first of four films that Alice Faye teamed with John Payne at 20th Century Fox. It has long been a contention of mine that Payne was signed by Darryl Zanuck because he looked a whole lot like Tyrone Power and could sing and thus carry his end of musical films with Alice, Betty Grable, June Haver, etc. Funny thing is when he left Fox, Payne abruptly stopped doing musicals and concentrated on all kinds of other films. He never sang a note on screen after 1946.

    Putting it mildly this is not the history of the origin of commercial broadcast radio. Still it's a pleasant 90 minutes or so of musical entertainment with Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, the Ink Spots, the Wiere Brothers, and the tap dancing Nicholas Brothers. I won't even quibble about how one enjoyed the Nicholas Brothers tap dance on radio.

    In 1919 flier John Payne, radio electrician Jack Oakie, saloon singer Alice Faye, and millionaire Cesar Romero essentially all team up to launch commercial radio. If you're wondering what Payne's specialty and what he brought to the table, he was the promoter of the bunch, a role he would repeat in Tin Pan Alley and Hello Frisco Hello also with Faye and Oakie. Alice has all three of these guys panting for her, but her heart belongs to Payne even though he's a bit of fathead and doesn't appreciate what he has.

    Harry Warren and Mack Gordon wrote the songs for The Great American Broadcast, the best of which is I Take To You which should have done a whole lot better in record sales. Oakie has a very funny bit trying to fake an operatic tenor during an early broadcast.

    The event which launches the quartet in the broadcasting business was the famous Jess Willard-Jack Dempsey heavyweight championship fight and director Archie Mayo did a very good job integrating newsreel footage of the fight with the cast. In the opening montage you'll also see a whole lot of radio personalities who were big in 1940.

    As Alice Faye is one of my real favorites I'm prejudiced, but The Great American Broadcast holds up very well after over 70 years even if it isn't the history of radio.
    7fcullen

    Among the best of its type

    Archie Mayo and the writers took a stock project (a show biz musical) and made it special. The plot line about the beginnings of radio doesn't get lost in the welter of specialty numbers nor does the love story intrude too much in the fun. We even get a sense of what it was like when radio was expanding from a hobbyist's pursuit to a a mass market entertainment industry. The cast is nearly top notch all around but the Wiere Brothers are a marvel, providing the best turn in the film despite competition from the Nicholas Brothers, the Ink Spots and the always professional and often underrated John Payne, Alice Faye and Jack Oakie. Payne was usually justified in sleepwalking through the roles Fox saddled him with, but in this outing he shows what he can do with a congenial plot, director and co-stars. The primary reason for watching this film is to see the Wiere Brothers at their antic best. They were a deft and whimsical European comedy trio--comedians, instrumentalists, dancers and jugglers--with a long lineage in Continental circus, ballet and opera, and their style may be baffling to tastes weened on hit-them-over-the-head roughhouse comedy. Nothing wrong with roughhouse, but the Wieres offer something gently different.
    9fifties

    Origin of the Internet ?

    While it is almost impossible to bypass the beauty of Alice Faye, I wish to mention that the plot of this cute fluff pic contains an interesting idea: hook up radio stations in a coast-to-coast network via the telephone. One hears so many arguments (political and otherwise) about "Who Invented the Internet?" It's easy to forget our honorable ancestors in the early days of Radio (when that name drew enough awe to have SciFi and even strange Westerns use it as a buzzword). The idea of telephone hookups apparently gave audiences a thrill.

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    • Curiosidades
      Original 1919 Jess Willard-Jack Dempsey fight film footage used.
    • Erros de gravação
      Although the story takes place in 1919, and the years immediately following, all of Alice Faye's clothes and hairstyles are strictly in the 1941 mode, as are also those of Mary Beth Hughes and the other female members of the cast; the musical arrangements of Faye's featured songs are also in the contemporary 1941 style.
    • Conexões
      Featured in Calouros de Sorte (1944)
    • Trilhas sonoras
      The Great American Broadcast
      Music by Harry Warren

      Lyrics by Mack Gordon

      Sung by a chorus during the opening credits

      Performed by James Newill and a chorus

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 9 de maio de 1941 (Estados Unidos da América)
    • País de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
    • Também conhecido como
      • The Great American Broadcast
    • Locações de filme
      • 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, Califórnia, EUA(Studio)
    • Empresa de produção
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Tempo de duração
      • 1 h 30 min(90 min)
    • Cor
      • Black and White
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      • 1.37 : 1

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