Bing wooed fans with a sensuous voice, wit, and good looks.

It all stared with the The Road to Singapore in 1940.

Starring
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
and
Dorothy Lamour

The film was wildly successful and was followed by

Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Road to Morocco (1942)
Road to Utopia (1946)
Road to Rio (1947)
Road to Bali (1952)
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)

A poster from one of the famous "Road" films, ROAD TO MOROCCO (1942) with Bob Hope.

Holiday Inn
Staring
Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy
Fred Astaire as Ted Hanover
Marjorie Reynolds as Linda Mason
Virginia Dale as Lila Dixon
Walter Abel as Danny Reed

Plot summary

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels in love, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.



The Song White Christmas was first sung in the movie Holiday Inn in 1942.

The movie White Christmas was not released until 12 years later in 1954



White Christmas

Staring

Bing Crosby as Bob Wallace
Danny Kaye as Phil Davis
Rosemary Clooney as Betty Haynes
Vera-Ellen as Judy Haynes

Plot summary

After leaving the Army after W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.

Bing Crosby produces dozen of Christmas Albums and his version of White Christmas and Silent Night are still considered the best 50 years later.

According to several sources, including Dictionary of Misinformation by Tom Burnam, however, "White Christmas" was not Crosby's biggest-selling record; it was "Silent Night." Crosby did not make any money off the sale of this recording- he said that since it was a religious song, he would, and did, donate all of his royalties on it to charity.



Here are just a few of his Christmas Albums still availible.

A Christmas Sing with Bing Around the World 1957

A Christmas Sing with Bing Around the World 1971

A Holiday Toast 1977

Bing Crosby's Christmas Classics 1977

The Christmas Sound of Music 1975

Family Christmas Favorites 196?

The Greatest Christmas Shows 1978

Holiday Inn 1949

I Wish You A Merry Christmas 1962

Merry Christmas 1949,1955,1960,1965,and 1975

Some Fine Old Chestnuts 1957

That Christmas Feeling 1958

The Sounds of Christmas 1966

The Sounds of Christmas Vol. 2 1967

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