Lux Radio 40/06/03 (266) Alexanders Ragtime Band (Alice Faye, Ray Milland)
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Lux Radio 40/06/03 (266) Alexanders Ragtime Band (Alice Faye, Ray Milland)
A musical that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in ragtime instead of in "serious" music.
The film generally traces the history of jazz music from the popularization of Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century to the acceptance of swing as an art form in the late 1930s using music composed by Berlin.
The story spans more than two decades from the 1911 release of its name-sake song to some point in time after the 1933 release of "Heat Wave", presumably 1938.
