Love Is on the Air
Love Is on the Air | |
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Directed by | Nick Grinde |
Written by | Roy Chanslor |
Screenplay by | Morton Grant George Bricker Pat C. Flick |
Based on | Love Is on the Air (short story) |
Produced by | Bryan Foy Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner |
Starring | Ronald Reagan June Travis Eddie Acuff Ben Welden |
Cinematography | James Van Trees |
Edited by | Doug Gould |
Music by | Howard Jackson |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 59 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Love is on the Air is a 1937 American
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It was ironic that, in his first movie, Reagan starred as a radio announcer, as he had just moved from Des Moines Iowa where for almost 5 years after graduating college, as a sports radio announcer he broadcast games for the Chicago Cubs, Big Ten football games and title fights from a play-by-play telegraph wire.
Plot
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Reckless radio commentator Andy McCaine gets into trouble when he attacks a corrupt city government, and his boss forces him to host an innocuous kiddie program.
Cast
- Ronald Reagan as Andy McCaine
- June Travis as Jo Hopkins
- Eddie Acuff as 'Dunk' Glover
- Ben Welden as 'Nicey' Ferguson
- Robert Barrat as J.D. Harrington
- Addison Richards as E.E. Nichols
- Raymond Hatton as Weston
- Tommy Bupp as Mouse
- Dickie Jonesas Bill - Mouse's Friend
- Willard Parker as Les Quimby
- William Hopper as Eddie Gould
- Spec O'Donnell as Pinky
- Herbert Rawlinson as Mr. George Copelin
- Lynne Roberts (credited as Mary Hart) as Mrs. George Copelin
- Jack Mower as Police Captain Lang