Wake Up and Live
Wake Up and Live is a 1937 Fox musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, starring Jack Haley and Alice Faye plus Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie as themselves.
Plot
Eddie Kane (Jack Haley) comes to town to make it as a singer in a vaudeville duet act with Jean Roberts (Grace Bradley). Unfortunately, he fails an audition at a radio station because he turns out to suffer from "mic fright." Jean goes off to perform on her own, and Eddie obtains work as an usher at the same radio station instead. While at work, Eddie overhears a motivational radio show called Wake Up and Live hosted by Alice Huntley (Alice Faye). He decides to befriend the host and apply the Wake Up and Live techniques to conquer his fear of microphones.
Cast
- Alice Faye
- Barnett Parker
- Ben Bernie
- Bert Moorhouse
- Charles Williams
- Cyril Ring
- Douglas Fowley
- Elyse Knox
- Etienne Girardot
- Frank Darien
- Franklyn Farnum
- Fred Kelsey
- George Chandler
- George Givot
- Hank Mann
- Harold Miller
- Jack Haley
- Jay Eaton
- Joan Davis
- Lynn Bari
- Miles Mander
- Ned Sparks
- Patsy Kelly
- Paul Hurst
- Robert Lowery
- Walter Winchell
- Warren Hymer
- William Demarest
More details
| author | Harry Tugend |
|---|---|
| director | Sidney Lanfield |
| keywords | falling in love grace bradley mic microphone radio announcer radio show radio station set up wake up |
| musicBy | Mack Gordon |
| producer | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | musical |