Wake Up and Live (1937)
August 23, 1937Release Date
Wake Up and Live (1937)
August 23, 1937Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell
Ben Bernie
Ben Bernie and His Orchestra
Alice Faye
Alice Huntley
Patsy Kelly
Patsy Kane
Ned Sparks
Steve Cluskey
Jack Haley
Edward 'Eddie' Kane
Walter Catlett
Gus Avery
Grace Bradley
Jean Roberts
Joan Davis
Comic Spanish Dancer
Leah Ray
Cafe Singer
Miles Mander
James Stratton
Douglas Fowley
Herman
Etienne Girardot
Waldo Peebles
Barnett Parker
Foster
Paul Hurst
McCabe
Warren Hymer
Poker-Playing Thug
William Demarest
Radio Center Tour Guide
Harry Tyler
Flat Tire Motorist
Charles Williams
Charlie Alberts, Agent
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Elevator Operator
George Chandler
Janitor
Wanda Perry
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Sidney Lanfield
Director
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
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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.
The film tells the story of a man attempting to overcome his fear of singing into microphones in a manner loosely based upon the principles of the 1936 best-selling self-help book Wake Up and Live! by Dorothea Brande. It also traded on the comedic rivalry Winchell and Bernie had played up throughout the 1930s in newspaper columns and on their radio shows, though they were in fact good friends.
Later in 1937, Wake Up and Live was followed by Love and Hisses - not a direct sequel as such, but another film featuring Winchell and Bernie playing themselves.
In 1944, Wake Up and Live was adapted for radio as an episode of Lux Radio Theatre. The Lux production starred Frank Sinatra, Bob Crosby, Marilyn Maxwell and James Dunn.