Love Is on the Air

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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 onLove 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 byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • October 2, 1937 (1937-10-02)
Running time
59 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Love is on the Air is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Nick Grinde, and starring Ronald Reagan (in his film debut), June Travis, Eddie Acuff, Robert Barrat, Raymond Hatton and Willard Parker. It was the first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture Hi, Nellie! . (The later ones were You Can't Escape Forever (1942), with George Brent, and The House Across the Street (1949), with Wayne Morris.) [1] 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.

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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.

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