Costumes: Edith Head. Cartoon sequence by Leon Schlesinger. Special effects: Gordon Jennings. Assistant director: Edward Anderson. Sound recording: Gene Merritt, Don Johnson, and Charles Althouse.
Producer: Harlan Thompson. Executive producer: Adolph Zukor. Musical direction by Boris Morros. Musical adviser: Arthur Franklin. Musical numbers and dances staged by LeRoy Prinz. Songs by Ralph Rainger (music) and Leo Robin (lyrics): "Thanks for the Memory" (Bob Hope, Shirley Ross), "You Took the Words Right out of My Heart" (Dorothy Lamour, Leif Erickson), "This Little Ripple Had Rhythm" (Shep Fields and his Orchestra). "Don't Tell a Secret to a Rose", "Mama, That Moon Is Here Again" (Martha Raye), "The Waltz Lives On". Brunnhilde's Battle Cry from "Die Walkure" by Wagner (Kirsten Flagstad). "Zumi Zumi" music and lyrics by Tito Guizar, sung in Spanish by Tito Guizar. Additional music composed by John Leipold and George Parrish.
Copyright 18 February 1938 by Paramount Pictures, Inc. New York opening at the Paramount, 9 March 1938. U.S. release: 13 February 1938. Australian release: 12 May 1938. 10 reels. 90 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A race between two ocean liners provides an excuse for a number of variety acts.
NOTES: Academy Award for Best Song: "Thanks for the Memory". The last of The Big Broadcast films. The others: The Big Broadcast (1932), The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935), and The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936).
COMMENT: This is the film with W. C. Fields' famous pool-room scene. It also has a breathtaking production number climax, "The Waltz Lives On", and the Academy Award-winning song, "Thanks for the Memory".
The rest of the show, unfortunately, doesn't quite come up to this high standard, aside from a delightful animated sequence with Shep Fields.
Still, the sets are superb and as far as spending money goes, Paramount put paid to their Big Broadcast series with style.
OTHER VIEWS: Hope's material is a bit feeble, but he delivers his verbose lines at a crackerjack pace and joins Shirley Ross for the delightfully wistful little ballad, "Thanks for the Memory". Director Mitchell Leisen seems somewhat out of his element with this sort of mish-mash, though sets and costumes display his usual feeling for style.
Producer: Harlan Thompson. Executive producer: Adolph Zukor. Musical direction by Boris Morros. Musical adviser: Arthur Franklin. Musical numbers and dances staged by LeRoy Prinz. Songs by Ralph Rainger (music) and Leo Robin (lyrics): "Thanks for the Memory" (Bob Hope, Shirley Ross), "You Took the Words Right out of My Heart" (Dorothy Lamour, Leif Erickson), "This Little Ripple Had Rhythm" (Shep Fields and his Orchestra). "Don't Tell a Secret to a Rose", "Mama, That Moon Is Here Again" (Martha Raye), "The Waltz Lives On". Brunnhilde's Battle Cry from "Die Walkure" by Wagner (Kirsten Flagstad). "Zumi Zumi" music and lyrics by Tito Guizar, sung in Spanish by Tito Guizar. Additional music composed by John Leipold and George Parrish.
Copyright 18 February 1938 by Paramount Pictures, Inc. New York opening at the Paramount, 9 March 1938. U.S. release: 13 February 1938. Australian release: 12 May 1938. 10 reels. 90 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A race between two ocean liners provides an excuse for a number of variety acts.
NOTES: Academy Award for Best Song: "Thanks for the Memory". The last of The Big Broadcast films. The others: The Big Broadcast (1932), The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935), and The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936).
COMMENT: This is the film with W. C. Fields' famous pool-room scene. It also has a breathtaking production number climax, "The Waltz Lives On", and the Academy Award-winning song, "Thanks for the Memory".
The rest of the show, unfortunately, doesn't quite come up to this high standard, aside from a delightful animated sequence with Shep Fields.
Still, the sets are superb and as far as spending money goes, Paramount put paid to their Big Broadcast series with style.
OTHER VIEWS: Hope's material is a bit feeble, but he delivers his verbose lines at a crackerjack pace and joins Shirley Ross for the delightfully wistful little ballad, "Thanks for the Memory". Director Mitchell Leisen seems somewhat out of his element with this sort of mish-mash, though sets and costumes display his usual feeling for style.