The Big Broadcast

This early Bing Crosby romantic comedy in which he does sing, in fact, he wins a singing radio contest, is an early 1932 musical talkie that's really quite inconsequential with a young Bing Crosby who judging from this lethargic performance, one would and could never presume that he'd become such a superstar in the 1940's winning an Oscar in 1944 and then going on to further nominations for The Bells of Saint Mary and in 1954 for The Country Firl... -... The Big Broadcast from 1932 is a rather short feature, not well written and not well performed but one can tolerate it somewhat because of the bit of comedy work from George Burns who would make a few more films in the 30's and then NOT get another role until his Oscar winning performance in The Sunshine Boys which he got only because Jack Benny who was to have been in the movie suddenly passed away before shooting. The Big Broadcast, overall, is a very lacklustre shorter feature, a film in which hardly any real effort is ever employed to turn it into something a little more decent, something at least somewhat approaching the very early musicals before 1932 like The Broadway Melody.