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1. The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music

A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 1,521

2. The Big Broadcast (1932)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A radio-singer, Bing Crosby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention to his ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Bing Crosby, Leila Hyams, George Burns

Votes: 289

3. Housewife (1934)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, John Halliday

Votes: 1,138

4. Danger on the Air (1938)

Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Caesar Kluck, soft-drink magnate, is found dead in the office of a big radio-broadcasting company. Benjamin Franklin Butts, a sound engineer, discovers that Kluck met his death from ... See full summary »

Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Nan Grey, Donald Woods, Jed Prouty, Berton Churchill

Votes: 227

5. Wake Up and Live (1937)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

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

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye, Patsy Kelly

Votes: 161

6. Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

Unscrupulous agent Rush makes singing waiter Clayton a big radio star while Peggy, who has lost her own radio show, helps Clayton.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, Ginger Rogers, The Mills Brothers

Votes: 453

7. Melody in Spring (1934)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Charlie Ruggles plays a souvenir-buff in quest of a real Swiss cowbell.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Lanny Ross, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Ann Sothern

Votes: 44

8. Walking on Air (1936)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A stubborn young woman hires a struggling singer to play her obnoxious suitor in a scheme to overturn her father's objections to the man she really wants to marry.

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Jessie Ralph, Henry Stephenson

Votes: 281

9. Swing Your Partner (I) (1943)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Set in a cheese factory and a radio station, Caroline Bird (Esther Dale), cheese factory owner and radio program sponsor, sets out to solve a mysterious crime by disguising herself and her ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Myrtle Wiseman, Scotty Wiseman, Barbara Jo Allen, Dale Evans

Votes: 16

10. It Can't Last Forever (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get ... See full summary »

Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Betty Furness, Robert Armstrong, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 67

11. Behind the Mike (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: William Gargan, Judith Barrett, Don Wilson, Sterling Holloway

12. Juke Box Jenny (1942)

Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Roger Wadsworth is a salesman for a company that supplies juke-boxes with classical music recordings, as Mrs. Horton, chief stockholder of the company hates swing music. Because of that, ... See full summary »

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Ken Murray, Harriet Nelson, Iris Adrian, Donald Douglas

Votes: 31

13. The Canary Comes Across (1938)

Approved | 21 min | Short, Music

A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receives attention, especially from Ann, the warden's daughter who leads the prison glee club.

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Erik Rhodes, Virginia Grey, Maurice Black, Oscar O'Shea

Votes: 81