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Bing Crosby Filmography
This is a filmography for the American singer and actor Bing Crosby. Films Box office ranking Crosby was frequently voted among the leading box office stars in a poll of exhibitors. See Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll *1933 - 14th (US) *1934 - 7th (US) *1935 - 12th (US) *1936 - 22nd (US) *1937 - 4th (US) *1938 - 13th (US) *1939 - 11th (US) *1940 - 7th (US) *1943 - 4th (US) *1944 - 1st (US) *1945 - 1st (US) *1946 - 1st (US) *1947 - 1st (US) *1948 - 1st (US) *1949 - 2nd (US) *1950 - 3rd (US) *1951 - 5th (US) *1952 - 4th (US) *1953 - 5th (US) *1954 - 8th (US) *1955 - 13th (US) *1956 - 20th (US) Top-ten films of their year USA *''Road to Singapore'' (placed in top ten) (1940) *'' Road to Zanzibar'' (placed in top ten) (1941) *''Holiday Inn'' (No. 8) (1942) *''Going My Way'' (No. 1) (1944) *''The Bells of St. Mary's'' (No. 1) (1946) *'' Blue Skies'' (No. 3) (1946) *''Road to Utopia'' (No. 4) (1946) *''Welcome Stranger'' ( No. 7) (1947) *''Road to Rio'' (No. 1) (1948) *'' The Empe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bing most often refers to: * Bing Crosby (1903–1977), American singer * Microsoft Bing, a web search engine Bing may also refer to: Food and drink * Bing (bread), a Chinese flatbread * Bing (soft drink), a UK brand * Bing cherry, a variety of cherry * Twin Bing or Bing, a candy made by Palmer Candy Company Names * Bing (surname) Bing is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Abraham Bing (1752–1841), German rabbi *Andrew Bing (1574–1652), English scholar * Anine Bing, Danish model * Bernice Bing (1936–1998), Chinese-American artist *Brandon Bin ..., a German-language surname * Bing (Chinese surname) (邴), a Chinese surname Places * Bing Prefecture, an ancient Chinese province * Bing, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Binag, Sistan and Baluchestan, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran * Manor of Byng, Suffolk, England Television *Bing (TV series), ''Bing'' (TV series), a British children's television series *Bad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Please (film)
''Please'' is a 1933 short musical comedy film directed and produced by Arvid E. Gillstrom. It stars Bing Crosby as himself along with Vernon Dent and Mary Kornman. Plot Elmer Smoot and Bing Crosby both have a crush on vocal teacher Beth Sawyer, who is sponsoring an upcoming music recital. Smoot is an aspiring singer who hopes to run Bing Crosby off the radio, though he doesn't realize Crosby's identity when he meets him. They become bitter rivals for Sawyer's affection. At the recital, as Smoot sings the old-fashioned song "Dear Old Girl," Crosby's dog runs loose onto the stage and ruins Smoot's performance. Though Crosby didn't intend for this to happen, Sawyer is embarrassed and angry. Crosby, using the pseudonym of Howard Jones, croons the song "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" and wins the audience over. Sawyer is pleased. While Crosby sings, Smoot finds a signed photograph of Bing Crosby and notices the resemblance between him and "Howard Jones". When the song is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Or Nothing (1937 Film)
''Double or Nothing'' is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Theodore Reed and starring Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Andy Devine, Mary Carlisle and William Frawley. Based on a story by M. Coates Webster, the film is about a dying millionaire who instructs his lawyer to drop four purses on the streets of New York City, which are found and returned by four honest people. According to the will, each of them is given five thousand dollars, which they must double within thirty days in order to claim one million dollars. Greedy relatives, who were cut from the will, try to thwart each one's plans. The film features the popular song "The Moon Got in My Eyes". Plot Eccentric millionaire philanthropist Axel Clark wishes to prove that all people are essentially honest and good. Following his death and as a provision of his will, his lawyers drop wallets on the streets of town that each have $100 in them, with information for contacting the lawyers. The four honest people who retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waikiki Wedding
''Waikiki Wedding'' is a 1937 American musical film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, and Shirley Ross. Crosby plays the part of Tony Marvin, a PR man charged with extolling the virtues of the Territory of Hawaii. The female lead, played by Shirley Ross is a local beauty queen who makes unhelpful comments about the islands. Bob Burns, along with Martha Raye, are the "comic relief". Amongst the supporting cast was a young Anthony Quinn. It was made by Paramount Pictures as a rival to the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films then being made by RKO Pictures. The film is best remembered for the song "Sweet Leilani" with words and music by Harry Owens, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1937. Other songs included "Blue Hawaii", "In a Little Hula Heaven", "Nani Ona Pua", "Okolehao", and "Sweet Is the Word for You". Plot Crosby is cast in a romantic Hawaiian setting as Tony Marvin, a publicity agent for Imperial Pineapple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennies From Heaven (1936 Film)
''Pennies From Heaven'' is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, and Edith Fellows. Jo Swerling's screenplay was based on the novel ''The Peacock Feather'' by Leslie Moore. The film is about a singer wrongly imprisoned who promises a condemned fellow inmate that he will help the family of his victim when he is released. The singer delays his dream of becoming a gondolier in Venice and becomes a street singer in order to help the young girl and her elderly grandfather. His life is further complicated when he meets a beautiful welfare worker who takes a dim view of the young girl's welfare and initiates proceedings to have her put in an orphanage. ''Pennies From Heaven'' remains most noteworthy for Crosby's introduction of the titular song, a Depression-era favorite, since recorded by numerous singers. The film features Louis Armstrong in a supporting role. In 1937, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythm On The Range
''Rhythm on the Range'' is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Bing Crosby, Frances Farmer, and Bob Burns. Based on a story by Mervin J. Houser, the film is about a cowboy who meets a beautiful young woman while returning from a rodeo in the east, and invites her to stay at his California ranch to experience his simple, honest way of life. ''Rhythm on the Range'' was Crosby's only Western film (apart from the remake ''Stagecoach'', 1966) and introduced two western songs, " Empty Saddles" by Billy Hill and "I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)" by Johnny Mercer, the latter becoming a national hit song for Crosby. The film played a role in familiarizing its audience with the singing cowboy and Western music on a national level. Plot Doris Halliday (Frances Farmer), the daughter of a wealthy New York banker, is engaged to wed a rich man she doesn't love. Her Aunt Penelope (Lucile Gleason), an outspoken Arizona rancher, objects to their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anything Goes (1936 Film)
''Anything Goes'' is a 1936 American musical film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles and Ida Lupino. Based on the 1934 stage musical ''Anything Goes'' by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, the stage version contains songs by Cole Porter. The film is about a young man who falls in love with a beautiful woman whom he follows onto a luxury liner, where he discovers she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law. The film required revisions of Porter's saucy lyrics to pass Production Code censors. Only four of his songs remained: "Anything Goes", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "There'll Always Be a Lady Fair", and "You're the Top". "You're the Top" contained substantially revised lyrics, and only the first line (sung by Ethel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two For Tonight
''Two for Tonight'' is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby, Joan Bennett, and Mary Boland. Based on the play ''Two for Tonight'' by J. O. Lief and Max Lief, the film is about a songwriter who composes a full-length theatrical piece within a few days. Plot Crosby is cast as Gilbert, one of three half-brothers, Gilbert, Buster and Pooch, sons of the much-married. debt-ridden, widow Mrs. Smythe. While the broker's men are removing the furniture he sings a song he has composed 'Takes Two to Make a Bargain' (including parody lines, 'Did you ever see a piano walking' and 'Pianni doesn't live here anymore'). In an endeavor to sell the song to Alexander Myers, a song publisher, Gilbert hides in a tree beneath which Myers is resting. Gilbert is unaware that the publisher is completely deaf and, to add to his troubles, when he starts singing a plane circles above and then crashes into the tree. He is injured but after a few days, whilst push ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi (film)
''Mississippi'' is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, and Joan Bennett. Written by Francis Martin and Jack Cunningham based on the novel ''Magnolia'' by Booth Tarkington, the film is about a young pacifist who, after refusing on principle to defend his sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer and acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which a villain accidentally kills himself with his own gun. The film was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. ''Mississippi'' has the distinction of being the only W.C. Fields film with a score by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. It is also the only film in which Fields co-starred with Crosby. Photographed by Charles Lang, the film featured art direction by Hans Dreier and Bernard Herzbrun and was edited by Chandler House. The sound man was Eugene Merritt. The original running time of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here Is My Heart
''Here Is My Heart'' is a 1934 American musical comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby, Kitty Carlisle, and Roland Young. Based on the play ''La Grande-duchesse et le garçon d'étage'' by Alfred Savoir, the film is about a famous singer who pretends to be a penniless waiter to get close to the woman of his dreams, a European princess. Cast * Bing Crosby as J. (Jasper) Paul Jones * Kitty Carlisle as Princess Alexandra * Roland Young as Prince Nicholas / Nicki * Alison Skipworth as Countess Rostova * Reginald Owen as Prince Vladimir / Vova * William Frawley as James Smith * Marian Mansfield as Claire * Cecilia Parker as Suzette, the Maid * Akim Tamiroff as Manager of Hotel * Arthur Housman as Drunken Waiter * Charles Arnt as Higgins, Paul's Valet * Charles C. Wilson as Captain Production Filming commenced in Hollywood at the end of August 1934 and was completed early in November. Reception The critics liked the film, with ''The New York Times'' sayin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Loves Me Not (1934 Film)
''She Loves Me Not'' is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bing Crosby and Miriam Hopkins. Based on the novel ''She Loves Me Not'' by Edward Hope and the subsequent play by Howard Lindsay, the film is about a cabaret dancer who witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film has been remade twice as ''True to the Army'' (1942) and as ''How to Be Very, Very Popular'' in (1955), the latter starring Betty Grable. The film is notable for containing one of the first major performances of Bing Crosby, and it helped launch him to future stardom. This was also the last film that Miriam Hopkins made under her contract to Paramount Pictures, which began in the early 1930s upon her arrival in Hollywood. In 1935, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Love in Bloom", theme song of comedian Jack Benny. Cast * Bing Crosby as P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We're Not Dressing
''We're Not Dressing'' is a 1934 pre-Code screwball musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Ethel Merman. Based on the 1902 J. M. Barrie play ''The Admirable Crichton'', the film is about a beautiful yacht owner (Lombard) who becomes stranded on an island with her socialite friends, a wacky husband-and-wife research team (Burns and Allen) and a singing sailor (Crosby). The supporting cast features Leon Errol and Ray Milland. Plot Spoiled socialite Doris Worthington (Lombard) is sailing the Pacific with her friend Edith (Merman) and her Uncle Hubert (Errol), while being courted by Prince Michael (Milland) and Prince Alexander (Henry). She is bored, however, and finds entertainment in verbal sparring with one of the sailors, Stephen Jones (Crosby). During one of their battles, Doris slaps Stephen, who retaliates by kissing her and gets fired. In a drunken accident, Uncle Hubert runs the yacht onto a reef i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
