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Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945, Paramount)
As himself
Featuring Humphrey Bogart, Bob Hope, Alan Ladd, Barbara Stanwyck.
Summary: A short subject film acknowledging the military victory.
Out of This World (1945, Paramount)
As the singing voice for star Eddie Bracken, “a Crosby-like crooner.”
Cast: Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Diana Lynn.
Director: Hal Walker
Producer: Sam Coslow
Screenwriter: Walter De Leon & Arthur Phillips
Summary: Bracken portrays a shy Western Union messenger who accidently becomes a pop crooner with a very familiar-sounding voice. Bing never appears and is credited as “Eddie Bracken’s songs are sung by a great friend of his and yours.” Bracken also turns to the camera in the final scene and says, “Thanks, Bing!”
Featured Songs:
- “Out Of This World”
- “June Comes Around Every Year”
- “I’d Rather Be Me”
The All-Star Bond Rally (1945, 20th Century Fox / US Dept of the Treasury)
As himself
Featuring Bob Hope, Betty Grable, Frank Sinatra, Harpo Marx
Summary: An all-star short subject film promoting the sale of war bonds!
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945, Rainbow-RKO)
As “Father Chuck O’Malley”
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, Ruth Donnelly, Joan Carroll.
Summary: An amiable sequel to “Going My Way” with Bing’s Father O’Malley assigned to a run-down parish where Bergman is the Mother Superior. This film held a number of Academy Award nominations including Bing as Best Actor in his return to Leo McCary’s warmhearted direction of Father ‘Chuck’ O’Malley
Featured Songs:
- “Aren’t You Glad You’re You?”
- “The Bells of St. Mary’s”
- “In the Land of Beginning Again”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037536/
Meet the Crosbys (1945, Paramount / US Dept of the Treasury)
As himself, with his four sons
Summary: A short-subject film pitch for war bond sales.
The Road to Home (1945, Paramount-Dept of the Navy)
As himself
With Bob Hope
Summary: A short-subject film urging sailors to remain in the service until their enlistment officially ends.
Blue Skies (1946, Paramount, color)
As “Johnny Adams”
Cast: Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield, Billy DeWolfe, Olga San Juan
Director: Stuart Heisler
Producer: Sol C. Heisler
Screenwriter: Arthur Sheekman
Summary: The talents from “Holiday Inn” return to the silver screen in this acclaimed musical. Crosby and Astaire play one-time show-biz partners whose rivalry is retold through a series of flashbacks set to another memorable Irving Berlin score.
Featured Songs:
- “I’ve Got My Captain Working For Me Now”
- “All By Myself”
- “I’ll See You In Cuba”
- “A Couple of Song and Dance Men”
- “You Keep Coming Back Like a Song”
- “Always”
- “Blue Skies”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038370/
Road to Utopia (1946, Paramount)
Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Douglas Dumbrille, Hillary Brooke, Jack LaRue.
Director: Hal Walker
Producer: Paul Jones
Screenwriters: Norman Panama & Melvin Frank
Summary: The fourth installment of the ‘Road’ pictures finds Bing and Bob in the Klondike with their usual quota of gags, supplemented by talking animals and Robert Benchley’s dry commentary. Mistaken identities, a gold-rush and romance all unfold in the frozen tundra of the Alaskan north and there’s plenty of fun to be had for Bing, Bob, and of course, Dorothy Lamour!
Featured Songs:
- “Sunday, Monday Or Always”
- “Goodtime Charlei”
- “It’s Anybody’s Spring”
- “Welcome To My Dream”
- “Put It There Pal”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038032/
My Favorite Brunette (1947, Paramount)
Cameo role as “Executioner”
Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Director: Elliott Nugent
Producer: Daniel Dare
Screenwriters: Edmund Beloin & Jack Rose
Summary: Bob is a photographer mixed up with mobsters. Bing’s fee for his cameo appearance in this film was donated directly to Gonzaga University at his request.
Road to Rio (1947, Paramount)
As “Scat Sweeney”
Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard, Frank Faylen, Andrews Sisters.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Producer: Daniel Dare
Screenwriters: Edmund Beloin & Jack Rose
Summary: The fifth film in the “Road” series of films, Bing and Bob are a couple of itinerant musicians trying to wrestle beautiful Dorothy from a sinister hypnotizing aunt.
Featured Songs:
- “Apalachicola, Fla”
- “Swanee River”
- “Carry me Back to Old Virginny”
- “But Beatufiul”
- “You Don’t Have to Know The Language” w/ The Andrew Sisters
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039776/
