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Rating: All Audiences
Running Time: 01:29:12
Synopsis
Filmmaker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to illustrate his fictional biography. Edited from: I Surrender Dear (1931), One More Chance (1931), Billboard Girl (1932), and Dream House (1932)
Trivia
From the 1940s to the 1960s, Bing Crosby owned 15 percent of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. His cameo in Angels in the Outfield (1951) was as part owner of the team. Three things about Bing were frequent sources of jokes in Hollywood: His inability to sire a daughter, prior to the birth of Mary Crosby; his investment in racehorses that rarely won; and his rather bad, almost colorblind, taste in casual clothes. These jokes often made their way into radio and TV shows, movies and, most often, into the comedy routines of Bob Hope. Left a clause in his will stating that his sons could not collect his money until they were in their 80s
Cast:
Bing Crosby, Bud Pollard, Marion Sayers
Director:
Bud Pollard
Writer:
John E. Gordon
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