Wake Up and Live

1937Movie⏱️ 1h 31mApproved

ComedyMusicRomance

⭐ 6.8

IMDB Rating

173 votes

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Director

Sidney Lanfield

Writers

Harry Tugend, Jack Yellen, Curtis Kenyon

Stars

Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye

Release Date

August 23, 1937

Language

English

Country

United States

🏆 2

Wins

💬 12

Reviews

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🎭 Top Cast

Walter Winchell

as Walter Winchell

Ben Bernie

as Ben Bernie

Alice Faye

as Alice Huntley

Patsy Kelly

as Patsy Kane

Ned Sparks

as Steve Cluskey

Jack Haley

as Eddie Kane

Walter Catlett

as Gus Avery

Grace Bradley

as Jean Roberts

Joan Davis

as Spanish Dancer

Leah Ray

as Cafe Singer

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Color

Black and White

Filming Location

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production

Twentieth Century Fox

🏷️ Keywords

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🎯 Categories

SatireComedyMusicRomance

⭐ Featured Review

After so many years of knowing about this movie, I finally got to watch Wake Up and Live

by tavm • 2019-02-11

7/10

"Three decades after first seeing a poster of this movie in the encyclopedic book about movie comedians-"The Funsters"-in the bio of Patsy Kelly, and a few years ago after I found out this particular film was on YouTube, I finally got to watch Wake Up and Live. The main reason I just watched this was because since this is Black History Month and one of the players in this picture was Eddie Anderson, who by the time this was released had just been cast on radio in "The Jack Benny Program" as Rochester, well, since I usually go chronological in reviewing African-Americans in f..."