Wake Up and Live

Wake Up and Live
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Directed by	Sidney Lanfield
Written by	Story: Curtis Kenyon Screenplay: Harry Tugend Jack Yellen
Based on	Wake Up and Live by Dorothea Brande
Produced by	Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring	Walter Winchell Ben Bernie Alice Faye
Cinematography	Edward Cronjager
Music by	Mack Gordon Louis Silvers
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	August 23, 1937 (1937-08-23)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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

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Cast

Walter Winchell - as Himself
Ben Bernie - as Himself
Alice Faye - Alice Huntley
Patsy Kelly - Patsy Kane
Ned Sparks - Steve Cluskey
Grace Bradley - Jean Roberts
Jack Haley - Eddie Kane
Walter Catlett - Gus Avery
Joan Davis - Spanish Dancer
Paul Hurst - McCabe
Etienne Girardot - Waldo Peebles
Condos Brothers
Brewster Twins
Elyse Knox - Nurse

Soundtrack

Music by Harry Revel, lyrics by Mack Gordon

"There's a Lull in My Life", which has become a jazz standard, was written for Alice Faye by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel. It was released as a single and became her only major hit record.^[1] The film also features the songs:
"Never in a Million Years"
"Wake Up and Live"
"I'm Bubbling Over"
"Oh, But I'm Happy"
"Bernie's Love Song"
"I Love You Much Too Much, Muchacha"
"Red Seal Malt"
"It's Swell of You"

References

^ Green, Stanley (1999). Hollywood Musicals Year by Year. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-634-00765-1.

External links

Wake Up and Live at IMDb
film clip on YouTube

Films directed by Sidney Lanfield

Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
Three Girls Lost (1931)
Hush Money (1931)
Dance Team (1932)
Society Girl (1932)
Hat Check Girl (1932)
Broadway Bad (1933)
Moulin Rouge (1934)
The Last Gentleman (1934)
Hold 'Em Yale (1935)
Red Salute (1935)
King of Burlesque (1936)
Half Angel (1936)
One in a Million (1936)
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Wake Up and Live (1937)
Love and Hisses (1937)
Thin Ice (1937)
Always Goodbye (1938)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Second Fiddle (1939)
Swanee River (1939)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
The Lady Has Plans (1942)
My Favorite Blonde (1942)
The Meanest Man in the World (1943)
Let's Face It (1943)
Standing Room Only (1944)
Bring on the Girls (1945)
The Well Groomed Bride (1946)
The Trouble with Women (1947)
Where There's Life (1947)
Station West (1948)
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Follow the Sun (1951)
Skirts Ahoy! (1952)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

Old San Francisco (1927)
The First Auto (1927)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Tenderloin (1928)
The Show of Shows (1929)
Three Faces East (1930)
The Doorway to Hell (1931)
Little Caesar (1931)
Illicit (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
The Man Who Played God (1932)
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
Doctor X (1932)
Life Begins (1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Three on a Match (1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
42nd Street (1933)
The Working Man (1933)
Ex-Lady (1933)
The Bowery (1933)
Blood Money (1933)
Moulin Rouge (1934)
Looking for Trouble (1934)
Born to Be Bad (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
Les Misérables (1935)
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
Call of the Wild (1935)
Metropolitan (1935)
Thanks a Million (1935)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
Professional Soldier (1935)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
It Had to Happen (1936)
A Message to Garcia (1936)
Under Two Flags (1936)
The Road to Glory (1936)
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Pigskin Parade (1936)
Seventh Heaven (1937)
Slave Ship (1937)
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Wake Up and Live (1937)
Thin Ice (1937)
Lancer Spy (1937)
In Old Chicago (1938)
Happy Landing (1938)
International Settlement (1938)
Kentucky Moonshine
Always Goodbye (1938)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
My Lucky Star (1938)
Submarine Patrol (1938)
Jesse James (1939)
Tail Spin (1939)
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
The Rains Came (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Swanee River (1939)
The Little Princess (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Little Old New York (1940)
The Man I Married (1940)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
The Great Profile (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Hudson's Bay (1941)
Tobacco Road (1941)
The Great American Broadcast (1941)
Blood and Sand (1941)
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1942)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
Sex Hygiene (Short) (1942)
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
This Above All (1942)
Thunder Birds (1942)
The Purple Heart (1944)
Wilson (1944)
Winged Victory (1944)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Pinky (1949)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
No Way Out (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
People Will Talk (1951)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
The Egyptian (1954)
The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Island in the Sun (1957)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Crack in the Mirror (1960)
Sanctuary (1961)
The Big Gamble (1961)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Chapman Report (1962)
The Visit (1964)

Writer

as Mark Canfield	The Desired Woman (1927) (story) Maybe It's Love (1930) Baby Face (1933) (story) Crack in the Mirror (1960)
as Melville Crossman	Tenderloin (story) (1928) State Street Sadie (story) (1928) Thanks a Million (story) (1935) A Yank in the R.A.F. (story) (1941) Thunder Birds (original story) (1942) China Girl (story) (1942) The Purple Heart (story) (1944)
as Gregory Rogers	Find Your Man (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) The Lighthouse by the Sea (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) Three Weeks in Paris (story, screenplay as Darryl Zanuck) (1925) The Midnight Taxi (story) (1928)
as self	A Broadway Butterfly (1925) Red Hot Tires (1925) Hogan's Alley (1925) The Caveman (scenario) (1926) The Little Irish Girl (adaptation) (1926) The Social Highwayman (1926) Footloose Widows (1926) Across the Pacific (adaptation) (1926) The Better 'Ole (screenplay) (1926) Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin story) (1927) Old San Francisco (1927) The First Auto (story) (1927) Good Time Charley (story) (1927) Noah's Ark (story) (1928) My Man (story) (1928) Hardboiled Rose (story) (1929) Madonna of Avenue A (story) (1929) Say It with Songs (story) (1929) The Life of the Party (1930) Little Caesar (story – uncredited) (1931) The Dark Horse (story) (1932) Lady Killer (story – uncredited) (1933) Folies Bergère de Paris (contributing writer – uncredited) (1935) G Men (story) (1935) This Is My Affair (story – uncredited) (1937) Alexander's Ragtime Band (contributing writer – uncredited) (1938) The Great Profile (story – uncredited) (1940) Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)

People

Virginia Fox (wife)
Richard D. Zanuck (son)
Dean Zanuck (grandson)

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