The Legendary Bing Crosby collects video footage and first-hand accounts of the life of America's smoothest crooners....
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2010
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This holiday release pairs footage of a warm, crackling fireplace, with beloved Christmas music performed by various...
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2009
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This release compiles a number of songs by the legendary Louis Armstrong. Taken over the course of four different decades,...
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2008
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This ambient release contains images of a yuletide fireplace that allows anyone with a TV to turn their own home into a...
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Featured Music
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2008
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"Deck the Halls," "Silent Night," "White Christmas" and "Joy to the World" are among the songs presented in this volume. ~...
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2005
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The documentary Bob Hope: The Road to Laughter contains numerous clips from the film and television work of the beloved...
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2003
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This program features a compilation of promotional film shorts produced during the 1930s as part of the Hollywood on Parade...
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2000
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Songwriter Harold Arlen is the subject of this documentary. Arlen wrote several songs for famous artists, but remained in the...
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1999
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A retrospective of the acclaimed NBC variety series The Andy Williams Show. The show ran from 1962-1971, winning three Emmy...
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1999
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Though crooner Bing Crosby is remembered for many talents, his role in the classic 1954 holiday film White Christmas and...
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1998
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1997
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1992
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1991
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Here's a look back at a bunch of the funniest scenes that appeared in the long-running Red Skelton Hour series. ~ Rovi...
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1991
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This documentary brings the 1940s into perspective through depictions of WWII, two atomic bombs, the music of Bing Crosby and...
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1988
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This eight part series follows the roles music has played in the development of mankind's culture and societies. ~ Rovi...
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1983
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This nostalgic video uses five short films to look back at Hollywood's efforts to bolster both overseas G.I.s and the folks...
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1980
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As co-hosted by Gene Kelly and Kathryn Crosby (the wife of Bing Crosby), this exclusive video compilation presents priceless...
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1979
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This represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the...
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1976
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In this installment in the All You Need Is Love documentary series, filmmakers examine the musical phenomenon of Tin Pan...
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1976
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This documentary about the history of popular music in America focuses on folk music, tracing its roots back to the American...
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1976
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It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off...
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Narrator
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1974
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This sequel to the rampaging-rodent chiller Willard stars Lee H. Montgomery as young Danny Garrison, a neglected kid who...
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Producer
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1972
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Producer
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1971
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1970
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An uncharacteristic Bing Crosby plays Dr. Cook, a small town physician with a little something to hide. Outwardly gentle and...
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1970
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The late velvet voiced crooner Bing Crosby headlined the 1967 television special, Bing Crosby: A Little Bit of Irish, which...
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1967
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Outbound from a small town recently besieged by Indians, a stagecoach carries several diverse characters. They include rummy...
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Doc Josiah Boone
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1966
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Filmed in Cinerama, this documentary is a combination of two features with added narration by Bing Crosby....
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1966
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The Rat Pack packed it in after this sprightly musical comedy that owes more than it should to Damon Runyon's stories and...
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Allen A. Dale
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1964
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This short-lived 1964 series ran on ABC, and marked crooner Bing Crosby's second foray into network television after a 1954...
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Bing Collins
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1964
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This was the last trip in the "road" comedies that Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and a bevy of female stars that featured...
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Harry Turner
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1962
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1962
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Bing Crosby plays a widowed millionaire who decides that it's "high time" he got himself a college education. Enrolling as a...
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Harvey Howard
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1960
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1960
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Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by...
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Guest
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1960
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Let's Make Love is a breezy comedy about an off Broadway musical production. Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand) is the richest...
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1960
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Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he...
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1959
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This musical comedy takes an off-beat religious turn as it tells the tale of a show-biz priest (Bing Crosby) who runs a...
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Father Conroy
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1959
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Produced for the Armed Forces overseas, this is a holiday spectacular created for Christmas. Fifty of the top stars of...
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1958
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Bing Crosby scores in a rare unsympathetic role in the MGM domestic drama Man on Fire. Crosby plays well-to-do businessman...
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Earl Carleton
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1957
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A star-studded television special that introduced the Edsel to the American people. The Edsel was a new Ford model of the...
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1957
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Originally aired in black-and-white on ABC, this filmed color version of Happy Holidays with Bing & Frank is a 1957 Christmas...
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1957
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For its first broadcast of the 1956-57 season, the monthly CBS variety anthology Ford-Star Jubilee offered a full-color...
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1956
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Originally telecast in 1956 as a presentation of the CBS anthology Ford Star Jubilee, "High Tor" was a musical adaptation of...
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1956
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C.K. Dexter-Haven
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1956
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A music performance video, an old TV special of performances of Porter's music. ~ Rovi...
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1956
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Anything Goes is a Technicolor-and-Vistavision remake of the 1936 film of the same name, which in turn was based on...
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Bill Benson
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1956
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White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A...
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Bob Wallace
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1954
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Bing Crosby does the Academy Award-bid bit in the atypical role of a self-pitying alcoholic, but it was his co-star, a...
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Frank Elgin
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1954
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George Cochran
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1953
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1953
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Bing Crosby heads this heart-tugging post war drama of a grieving widower who is duped into forming an unbreakable bond with...
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Bill Wainwright
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1953
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Jordan Blake
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1952
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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Pete Garvey
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1951
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Bing Crosby stars as Paul Merrick, an irresponsible songwriter in Mr. Music. Merrick's improvidence and prodigality has made...
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Paul Merrick
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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Dan Brooks
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1950
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Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied...
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1949
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Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a two-part Walt Disney cartoon feature based on a pair of well known stories. The first half of the...
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Narrator ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
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1949
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Father Patrick Peyton, whose motto "The family that prays together stays together" was proffered weekly on his popular Family...
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1949
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Though the Mark Twain original has been refashioned into a Bing Crosby vehicle, this 1949 musical adaptation of A Connecticut...
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Hank Martin
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1949
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Bejabbers! Sure an' some heathen has gone and stolen the Blarney Stone. Yes, Top O' the Morning is set in Ireland, or at...
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Joe Mulqueen
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1949
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Originally released as half of the 1949 feature The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Bing Crosby narrates this Disney...
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1949
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Set in pre-World War I Austria, this relatively sweet and cheerful film marks writer/director Billy Wilder's first and last...
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Virgil Smith
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1948
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Road to Hollywood may have starred Bing Crosby, but it was by no means one of his popular "Road" pictures with Bob Hope. In...
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially...
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Songwriter, Dr. Jim Pearson
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1947
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Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the...
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Scat Sweeney
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1947
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1947
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The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold...
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Duke Johnson
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1946
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Jed Potter (Fred Astaire) is a popular radio personality who was once a famous dancer. He also used to be friends with Johnny...
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Johnny Adams
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1946
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Father Chuck O'Malley
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1945
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Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite...
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Himself
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1945
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In this musical, a messenger boy does a remarkable imitation of Bing Crosby and finds himself surrounded by luscious little...
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1945
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1945
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This peppy wartime musical stars Bing Crosby as radio crooner Johnny Cabot, the heartthrob of millions. To escape his...
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Johnny Cabot
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1944
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It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he...
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Father Chuck O'Malley
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1944
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1944
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1943
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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Daniel Decatur Emmett
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1943
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are shipwrecked on the African...
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Jeff Peters
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1942
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Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his...
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Jim Hardy
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1942
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1942
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Rather shaky as history, Birth of the Blues delivers the goods in terms of entertainment, thanks to the unbeatable star...
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Jeff Lambert
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1941
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Chuck Reardon
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1941
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In this musical drama, a construction worker becomes the guardian of a 12-year old girl after one of his buddies is killed....
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Buzz Blackwell
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1940
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Bob Summer
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1940
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Josh Mallon
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1940
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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Denny Martin
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1939
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The Star Maker is the story (with variations) of vaudeville enterpreneur Gus Edwards, here played by Bing Crosby. Determining...
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Larry Earl
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1939
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Directed by Frank Tuttle, Paris Honeymoon stars Bing Crosby as Lucky Lawton, a wealthy Texan whose plans for a Parisian...
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"Lucky" Lawton
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1938
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Chronic gambler Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) is a source of great consternation for his loving mother (Elizabeth Patterson), who...
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Joe Beebe
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1938
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Bing Crosby plays the melodic medico of the title. To help cover for his ailing policeman pal (Andy Devine), Crosby takes the...
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Dr. Remsen
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1938
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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Lefty Boylan
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1937
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This happy-go-lucky musical comedy is set in beautiful Hawaii and follows a public relations man who works for a pineapple...
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Tony Martin
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1937
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Jeff Larrabee
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1936
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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Bill Benson
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1936
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In his only visit to Columbia Pictures, Paramount's resident crooner Bing Crosby stars in a sentimental musical drama. In...
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Larry
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1936
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After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936....
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1935
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Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright...
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Gilbert Gordon
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1935
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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Tom Grayson
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1935
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We're Not Dressing is a bouncy musical-comedy variation of J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton -- complete with a happier...
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Stephen Jones
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1934
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J. Paul Jones
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1934
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1934
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Paul Lanton
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1934
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Reportedly at the request of Marion Davies herself, Bing Crosby was borrowed from Paramount for the MGM Davies vehicle...
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Bill Williams
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1933
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This is a musical comedy which starred Bing Crosby and included the song "Auf Wiedesehn". ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1933
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There can never be Too Much Harmony in a Bing Crosby picture, not even in a bucolic backstage musical like this. Crosby plays...
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Eddie Bronson
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1933
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1933
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1933
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Directed by Wesley Ruggles, the musical sendup of College Humor centers around the blooming love between a college professor...
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Prof. Frederick Danvers
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1933
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This early musical is a bit slim on story but features a number of vintage performances by a stellar cast, including some of...
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Bing Crosby
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1932
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1931
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Bing Crosby stars as himself in this Mack Sennett-directed two reeler. The film opens with Crosby singing the title song in...
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1931
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In this elaborate big-budget musical, a handsome businessman follows a beautiful woman aboard a luxury liner and begins to...
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1931
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Intended as Universal Pictures' entry in the "all-star musical" cycle of the early talkie era, King of Jazz is certainly the...
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1930
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This music compilation of great songs from World War II includes performers like the Andrew Sisters, Big Crosby, Kate Smith,...
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A television special featuring many of Bing's friends in guest starring roles. ~ Rovi...
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The 1940s was a monumental decade for the United States. Amid World War II, economic recovery, and the start of the Cold...
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This musical release from beloved TV entertainer Andy Williams offers a unique collection of musical performances from The...
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