| Mr. Dodd Takes the Air | |
| Director: | Alfred E. Green |
| Producer: | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Starring: | Kenny Baker Frank McHugh Alice Brady |
| Music: | Leo F. Forbstein Adolph Deutsch (uncredited) |
| Cinematography: | Arthur Edeson |
| Editing: | Thomas Richards |
| Studio: | Warner Bros. |
| Distributor: | Warner Bros. |
| Runtime: | 87 minutes |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | United States |
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green. Composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin were nominated at the 10th Academy Awards in the category of Best Song for "Remember Me".[1]
A small town electrician becomes a hit singer in New York after being asked to sing for a local radio program. There he gets involved with a gold digger, a thief, an opera singer and a woman he falls in love with. After suffering from bronchitis, he sings in another voice to stay on the air, but then is called a fake.
This was the starring debut for Kenny Baker, a popular radio singer at the time.[2]
Although nominated for the at the 10th Academy Awards in the category of Best Original Song,[3] the film was retrospectively judged a "minor musical comedy".[4]