(By permission of 20th Century Fox Film Co., Ltd.)
Screen play by Kathryn Scola and Lamer Trotti. Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Radio score by Jack Beaver. Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum. Produced by Douglas Moodie
Those taking part include: Peter Madden, Inga Andersen, Robert Beattie, Diana Ward, Sidney Keith, Macdonald Parke, Alan Keith
BBC Revue Chorus and Augmented Revue Orchestra
This is the first of a new series by Douglas Moodie of revivals of radio versions of big musical pictures, none of them to be recorded versions of the original broadcast, but all to be produced afresh, 'live'.
The film Alexander's Ragtime Band, which had its premiere in London in 1938, was named after Irving Berlin's most famous song, and traced the romantic story of the composer's life. It was a tribute by Hollywood to this King of Tin-Pan Alley, whose seven or eight hundred popular songs have made him a millionaire.