Bing Crosby Articles

Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra in High Society Turner Classic Movies‘ Grace Kelly series comes to a close with a screening of the actress’ last three films: Alfred Hitchcock’s comedy-adventure To Catch a Thief (1955), co-starring Cary Grant; Charles Walters‘ musical High Society (1956), a remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Kelly as the woman between Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby; and Charles Vidor’s romantic [...]

Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope in Road to Morocco The Amazing ROAD Series: Part II Despite all the on-screen craziness, in one of the ironies only Hollywood can produce Road to Morocco was, of all things, nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay (for Frank Butler and Don Hartman). You wouldn’t think they could — or would have dared — to push the envelope [...]

The Amazing ROAD Series: Part I Justifiably smelling a potential goldmine, the following year Paramount released Road to Zanzibar, with Schertzinger once again assigned as director. This time around, slight signs of the series’ famous anarchy began to show. A send-up of jungle safari pictures, Road to Zanzibar features Hope and Crosby straining to get off the chain. The "we know this is a movie [...]

Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby I’ve made no secret of the fact that my Mike Taylor/Tony Solantro novels are very much influenced by the movies. The classic films of the ’30s and ’40s, mostly. That said, no other films influenced the style of my book series more than the Road comedies starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and the girl forever associated with the sarong, [...]