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.

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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

External links

• Gift of Gab quotes at the Internet Movie Database