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Wake Up and Live is a 1937 Fox musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The movie stars Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie and Alice Faye and was based upon the self-help bestseller by Dorothea Brande. The film was followed by Love and Hisses (1937).

Plot[]

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

Cast[]

  • Walter Winchell - as Himself
  • Ben Bernie - Himself - Ben Bernie
  • Alice Faye - Alice Huntley
  • Patsy Kelly - Patsy Kane
  • Ned Sparks - 'Steve Cluskey
  • Jack Haley - Eddie Kane
  • Joan Davis - Spanish Dancer
  • Elyse Knox - Nurse
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