Gift of Gab (film)

Gift of Gab is a 1934 film about a radio announcer who irritates everyone else at the station.
 * Directed by Karl Freund. Written by Lou Breslow, Philip G. Epstein, Rian James, and Jerry Wald.

The Low Down on the High-Ups of Radioland! A Knockout Cast, IN THE YEAR'S SNAPPIEST SHOW! (taglines)

Phillip "Gift of Gab" Gabney

 * Why, your troubles are over. When I handle your liver, I'll bring home the bacon.


 * You wanna get anywhere in this world, Pat, you gotta play every card in the deck... and I'm playin' 'em all.


 * I'll make Trivers Livers live. I'll put Trivers Livers on the plate of everybody within earshot.

Dialogue

 * Phillip Gabney: What would you call that?
 * Telephone Girl: That's the sound effects man.
 * Phillip Gabney: He doesn't look sound to me.
 * Telephone Girl: They all get that way.


 * Phillip Gabney: Aw, listen, honey.
 * Barbara Kelton: I've listened to you for months. You make my ears ache.

Taglines

 * The Low Down on the High-Ups of Radioland! A Knockout Cast, IN THE YEAR'S SNAPPIEST SHOW!

Cast

 * Edmund Lowe — Phillip "Gift of Gab" Gabney
 * Gloria Stuart — Barbara Kelton
 * Ruth Etting — Ruth
 * Phil Baker — Absent-minded doctor
 * Boris Karloff — himself
 * Bela Lugosi — himself
 * Ethel Waters — Ethel
 * Alice White — Margot
 * Alexander Woollcott — himself
 * Victor Moore — Colonel Trivers
 * Hugh O'Connell — Patsy
 * Helen Vinson — Nurse