The Amazing ROAD Series II: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour

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 and so do you or you wouldn’t be sitting in the audience" attitude began to furtively raise its head. Ad-libbing while the cameras were rolling became frequent. (It has been said that many of these "ad-libs" were carefully scripted into the margins of Hope and Crosby’s individual shooting scripts by their radio writers. The fun was [...]

by Derek Taylor Shayne | December 26, 2007   
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