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Bob Hope Tribute Collection - College Swing (1938) and Big Broadcast of 1938 DVD9 [DDR]
 
Bob Hope Tribute Collection - College Swing (1938)
College Swing, also known as Swing, Teacher, Swing in the U.K., is a 1938 comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, and Bob Hope. The movie features Edward Everett Horton, Ben Blue, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan and Jerry Colonna.
CAST:-
George Burns as George Jonas
Gracie Allen as Gracie Alden
Martha Raye as Mable
Bob Hope as Bud Brady
Edward Everett Horton as Hubert Dash
Florence George as Ginna Ashburn
Ben Blue as Ben Volt
Betty Grable as Betty
Jackie Coogan as Jackie
John Payne as Martin Bates
Cecil Cunningham as Dean Sleet
Robert Cummings as Radio Announcer
Skinnay Ennis as Skinnay
Jerry Colonna as Prof. Yascha Koloski (uncredited)
The Slate Brothers as themselves
Robert Mitchell and St. Brendan's Choristers as themselves
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Produced by Lewis E. Gensler
Lyrics: Frank Loesser
Music: Burton Lane, Hoagy Carmichael, Victor Young
Running time 86 minutes
Mary Livingstone, who became well known as the wife of Jack Benny, appears in a small uncredited part as an usherette.
Jackie Coogan and Betty Grable were married at the time they made this film together.
SONG NUMBERS:-
"The Old School Bell" - sung by Robert Mitchell and St. Brendan's Choristers
"Moments Like This" - by Burton Lane (music) and Frank Loesser (words), performed by Florence George
"I Fall in Love with You Every Day" - by Manning Sherwin (music) and Frank Loesser (words), performed by Florence George and John Payne
"College Swing" - by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Frank Loesser (words), sung by Betty Grable and Skinnay Ennis, danced by Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan
"How'ja Like to Love Me?" - by Burton Lane (music) and Frank Loesser (words), performed by Martha Raye and Bob Hope
"What Did Romeo Say To Juliet?" - by Burton Lane (music) and Frank Loesser (words), performed by John Payne and Florence George
"What a Rumba Does to Romance" - by Manning Sherwin (music) and Frank Loesser (lyrics), performed by Martha Raye with Ben Blue, danced by Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan, George Burns and Gracie Allen, The Slate Brothers, and unidentified extras
"You're a Natural" - by Manning Sherwin (music) and Frank Loesser (lyrics), performed by Gracie Allen
"Irish Washerwoman" - traditional Irish jig, danced by Gracie Allen
"Please" - performed by Jerry Colonna.
     
SYNOPSIS:- College Swing (1938)
It's 1738, and Gracie Alden (Gracie Allen) of the powerful Alden family fails to graduate from the college founded by her grandfather for the ninth year in a row, so he leaves it in his will to the first female of the family to graduate within 200 years. At the deadline, in 1938, another Gracie Alden, the last girl of the line, is having trouble with her studies, so she hires fast-talking Bud Brady (Bob Hope) to help her. Her efforts are opposed by woman-hating professor Hubert Dash (Edward Everett Horton) and his secretary George Jones (George Burns), who don't want to see their beloved college fall into the hands of an empty-headed nit-wit like Gracie.
When by hook and by crook Gracie manages to pass her exam and becomes the owner of the college, she does away with entrance exams, hires a bunch of incompetent but kooky teachers, and turns the place into a jumpin' jitterbugging joint complete with swing bands and remote radio broadcasts.
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Bob Hope Tribute Collection - Big Broadcast of 1938 - W.C.Fields, Martha Raye [DDR]
The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount Pictures film featuring W.C. Fields and Bob Hope. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film is the last in a series of Big Broadcast movies that were variety show anthologies. This film featured the debut of Hope's signature song, "Thanks for the Memory" by Ralph Rainger.
CAST:-
W. C. Fields as T. Frothingill Bellows
W. C. Fields as S. B. Bellows
Martha Raye as Martha Bellows
Dorothy Lamour as Dorothy Wyndham
Shirley Ross as Cleo Fielding
Lynne Overman as Scoop McPhail
Bob Hope as Buzz Fielding
Ben Blue as Mike
Leif Erickson as Bob Hayes
John Serry, Sr. as Himself
Russell Hicks as Captain Stafford
Billy Daniels, Leonid Kinskey, Bernard Punsly, Irving Bacon, James Craig
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Produced by Harlan Thompson
Written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Russel Crouse
Music by Boris Morros
SYNOPSIS:- Big Broadcast of 1938
In what is being billed as "The Race of the Ages," the new forty-million-dollar “radio powered” ocean liner S.S. Gigantic (“America’s Challenge for Crossing Record”) is about to race its rival, the slightly smaller S.S. Colossal across the Atlantic from New York’s Pier 97 to Cherbourg in two-and-a-half days. Gigantic owner T. Frothingill “T.F.” Bellows (W.C. Fields) intends to send his nearly identical younger brother S.B. (also Fields) to sail aboard the Colossal, hoping he will cause trouble and sabotage the rival ship, enabling the Gigantic and his own Bellows Line to win.
However S.B., who is held back due to a golf game, ends up flying over the ocean to meet the Colossal en route and mistakenly lands aboard the deck of the Gigantic instead, much to the consternation of Captain Stafford (Russell Hicks). Matters are made worse for the Gigantic when S.B.’s outrageously unlucky daughter Martha (Martha Raye) is brought onboard, being rescued after surviving the shipwreck of the yacht, Hesperus V.
Popular OBC radio emcee Buzz Fielding (Bob Hope), who has just been released from “alimony jail” and is broadcasting live from the Gigantic, is trying to juggle his three ex-wives Cleo (Shirley Ross), Grace (Grace Bradley), and Joan (Lorna Gray); his lukewarm girlfriend Dorothy Wyndham (Dorothy Lamour); and his inept microphone assistant Mike (Ben Blue). Buzz does his best throughout the voyage to announce the progress of the race and introduce a series of musical acts for the pleasure of the passengers and OBC’s radio audience.
Meanwhile Dorothy is romanced by First Officer (and inventor of the Gigantic’s enormous radio power plant) Robert Hayes (Leif Erickson), just as Buzz and Joan get sentimental about their broken marriage.
SONG NUMBERS:
"This Little Ripple Had Rhythm,” instrumental piece performed Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra, with integrated cartoon segments.
“Don’t Tell a Secret to a Rose” and the Spanish lyrics to “Zuni Zuni” (called “I Love You” in the film) sung by Tito Guízar, with Guízar playing Spanish guitar on “Zuni Zuni.”
“You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart” sung by Dorothy Lamour and Leif Erickson
“Brunnhilde’s Battle Cry” (from Richard Wagner’s Die Walkure, Act 2 Scene 1) performed by Metropolitan Opera soprano Madame Kirsten Flagstad with an orchestra conducted by Wilfrid Pelletier.
Comedy performance by Bob Hope, Ben Blue and Patricia Wilder; “Way Down South in Dixie,” sung a cappella by Patricia Wilder.
“You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart (reprise)” sung by Dorothy Lamour.
“Thanks for the Memory” sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross.
“Mama, That Moon is Here Again” song and slapstick dance performed by Martha Raye and dancers.
“The Waltz Lives On,” sung by Bob Hope, Shirley Ross and chorus. Includes a section from “Truckin’ (They’re Going Hollywood in Harlem)” sung by Martha Raye; and musical sections from “At a Georgia Camp Meeting” and “Charleston.”
     
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 4514 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 448kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 6
Audio Languages: English
RunTime: 177 mins
Subtitles: None
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 177 mins |
