Bing Crosby & Paul Robeson sing "Ballad for Americans"

Bing Crosby & Paul Robeson sing "Ballad for Americans"

Juli 04, 2021
Bing Crosby, Independence Day, Paul Robeson

  For Independence Day, Bing Crosby and Paul Robeson both give us the "Ballad for Americans" from 1940.  Happy Fourth of July!

World Without Blow Dryers - Answers

World Without Blow Dryers - Answers

Desember 15, 2011
Alexis Smith, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Jessica Grayson, More Than a Secretary, Rita Hayworth, Ruth Donnelly, Teresa Wright, The Little Foxes, trivia

The answers to our screen caps in Monday’s post “In a World Without Blow Dryers” - 1. - That’s Cary Grant toweling Rita Hayworth’s tresses ...

Alexis Smith

Alexis Smith

Oktober 13, 2011
Alexis Smith, Barbara Rush, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Craig Stevens, Here Comes the Groom, Jack Warner, Night and Day, Paul Newman, San Antonio, The Age of Innocence, The Young Philadelphians

Alexis Smith had a rare opportunity to stretch her acting muscles in “The Constant Nymph” (1943), discussed here in Monday’s post. She rema...

Happy Independence Day

Happy Independence Day

Juli 04, 2011
Bing Crosby, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Holiday Inn, Independence Day, newsreels

Happy Independence Day.  Have a look at this link for the scene in "Holiday Inn" (1942) which features the above Bing Crosby in a...

Happy Presidents Day

Happy Presidents Day

Februari 21, 2011
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Holiday Inn, Irving Berlin, Jean Arthur, Marjorie Reynolds

Happy Presidents Day, for those of us in the U.S.   Happy retail sales.  Happy day off.  Others are more reverent.  Here, Connie Milligan, c...

Snow...Snow...SNOW!

Snow...Snow...SNOW!

Januari 31, 2011
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, White Christmas

A tribute to those of you in the some 30 states who’ll be taking part in this week’s snow, slush, and ice festival…keep smiling. (Scroll dow...

Here Comes the Groom - 1951

Here Comes the Groom - 1951

Januari 06, 2011
Alan Reed, Alexis Smith, Beverly Washburn, Bing Crosby, Charles Lane, Dorothy Lamour, Franchot Tone, Frank Capra, Here Comes the Groom, Jacques Gencel, Jane Wyman, Minna Gombell, Robert Keith

“Here Comes the Groom” (1951) can be viewed through a prism of different spectrums, first and foremost perhaps, as the first in the last han...

Now Playing - The Bells of St. Mary's

Now Playing - The Bells of St. Mary's

September 27, 2010
Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, now playing, The Bells of St. Mary's

We’ll have to postpone a review of “Rich Man, Poor Man” for now, but stay tuned on Thursday for the winner of the DVD contest. In the meanti...

Anita Sharp-Bolster

Anita Sharp-Bolster

Juli 25, 2007
Anita Sharp-Bolster, Barbara Stanwyck, Bing Crosby, Dark Shadows, Going My Way, Humphrey Bogart, The Two Mrs. Carrolls

Anita Sharp-Bolster shows us essentially two sides of the same person in the two different roles of Christine in “The Two Mrs. Carrolls” (19...

Easter Parade

Easter Parade

April 05, 2007
Bing Crosby, Easter Parade, Fred Astaire, Holiday Inn, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Judy Garland, Marjorie Reynolds

“Easter Parade” (1948) set in 1911-1912, showcases Irving Berlin’s Tin Pan Alley hits, and one hit of the Great Depression, which was the so...

My Dream Is Yours (1949)

My Dream Is Yours (1949)

April 04, 2007
Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Easter, Eve Arden, Holiday Inn, Jack Carson, Marjorie Reynolds, musicals, My Dream Is Yours, Tweety

In My Dream is Yours (1949), we have a film which spoofs radio advertising, the music business, agents, and really has no Easter message at...