Golf’s Golden Year (1970)
Narrator
Summary: A short film highlighting the events within the world of golf in 1970.
Golf’s Golden Year (1970)
Narrator
Summary: A short film highlighting the events within the world of golf in 1970.
Mr. Music (1950, Paramount)
As “Paul Merrick”
Cast: Nancy Olson, Charles Coburn, Robert Stack, Groucho Marx, Peggy Lee.
Director: Richard Haydn
Producer: Robert L. Welch
Screenwriter: Arthur Sheekman
Summary: An easy-going vehicle for crooner Crosby as a Broadway songwriter who wants to live the easy life. Essentially a remake of “Accent on Youth.”
Featured Songs:
High Time (1960, 20th Century Fox, color)
As “Harvey Howard”
Cast: Fabian, Tuesday Weld, Nicole Maurey, Richard Beymer, Yvonne Craig
Director: Blake Edwards
Producer: Charles Brackett
Screenwriters: Tom Waldman & Frank Waldman – based on a story by Garson Kanin.
Score: Henry Mancini
Summary: Bing plays Harvey Howard, the millionaire owner of a chain of restaurants and a widower, who resumes a college career, much to the chagrin of his snooty adult son & daughter. Sparks fly with a particular instructor (Nicole Maurey) and Harvey manages to become big-man-on-campus, while learning – and teaching – a thing or two along the way!
Featured Songs:
“The Second Time Around”
“You Tell Me Your Dream”
It Came Upon The Midnight Clear’
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Let’s Make Love (1960, 20th Century Fox, color)
Cameo appearance as himself
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand
Director: George Cukor
Producer: Jerry Wald
Screenplay: Norman Krasna
Summary: A billionaire hears of a show spoofing him and wants to stop it, then meets the star. To charm her, he hires Crosby to teach him to sing.
Featured Songs:
Riding High (1950, Paramount)
As “Dan Brooks”
Cast: Colleen Gray, Charles Bickford, William Demarest, Frances Gifford, Gene Lockhart
Director/Producer: Frank Capra
Screenwriters: Robert Riskin, Melville Shavelson & Jack Rose
Summary: A musical remake of “Broadway Bill” under the direction of Frank Capra. Crosby is a racehorse owner whose nag has yet to come through.
Featured Songs:
Angels in the Outfield (1951, MGM)
Cameo appearance
Cast: Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn.
Director/Producer: Clarence Brown
Screenwriters: Dorothy Kingsley & George Wells
Summary: Cute comedy-fantasy with… a hot-tempered, foul-mouthed manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates whose hard-luck team goes on a winning streak thanks to some heavenly intervention; cameos by Crosby and other celebrities from the world of baseball and show business.
Pepe (1960, Columbia, color)
Cameo appearance.
Cast: Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin
Director/Producer: George Sidney
Screenwriters: Dorothy Kingsley & Claude Binyon
Summary: The first featured role for International star, Cantiflas – Mario Moreno, who portrays a ragamuffin ranch hand who raises a white stallion, Don Juan, from a colt and he thinks of as his son. When the horse is sold at auction to a Hollywood writer/director (Dan Dailey), Pepe follows his stallion to Hollywood where his paths cross with a parade of Hollywood glitterati.
Featured Songs:
Here Comes the Groom (1951, Paramount)
As “Pete Garvey”
Cast: Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone, James Barton.
Director/Producer: Frank Capra
Songwriters: Virginia Van Epp, Liam O’Brien & Myles Connelly from a story by Robert Riskin & Liam O’Brien
Summary: Crosby contrives to keep former fiancée from marrying millionaire Tone in this in this lightweight musical outing. Guest appearances by Louis Armstrong, Dorothy Lamour, Phil Harris and Cass Daley, plus Oscar-winning song “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening.”
Featured Songs:
Cancel My Reservation (1972, Warner Bros. color)
Cameo appearance
Cast: Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint
Director: Paul Bogart
Producer: Gordon Oliver
Screenwriter: Arthur Marx & Robert Fisher
Summary: A TV-talk-show host takes a vacation on a ranch in Arizona. Bing appears along with John Wayne in one scene.
The Road to Hong Kong (1962, United Artists)
As “Harry Turner”
Cast: Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Morley
Director: Norman Panama
Producer: Melvin Frank
Screenplay – Norman Panama & Melvin Frank
Summary: The seventh of the Bing and Bob ‘Road’ pictures and the first without Dorothy Lamour in the feminine lead, though she appears in a lesser role. Bing & Bo are con men who become involved in international intrigue and space travel.
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