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...Angeles, durable (49) Crooner-Actor Bing (Little Boy Lost) Crosby was moaning low over a $1,051,400 damage suit filed against him by three people who were injured last month in a dawn collision with Bing's $12,250 Mercedes-Benz. Scoffing at a claim that he was drunk, Bing ticked off his liquor intake at a party he attended before the smashup: "Two Scotch and water drinks before dinner, champagne during dinner, two Scotches and water after dinner...
Television has been even kinder to Hollywood, supplying moviemen with such hit films as Bing Crosby's Little Boy Lost and José Ferrer's Anything Can Happen (both originally shown on TV Playhouse), and Rosalind Russell's Never Wave at a Wac (from Schlitz Playhouse). Last week Hollywood Producer Harold Hecht and Actor Burt Lancaster bought the script of Paddy Chayefsky's Marty, also seen on TV Playhouse...
...outside of a few Spanish-American centers, Lara's songs are little known. Two exceptions: You Belong to My Heart (1943) and Granada, recorded by Bing Crosby and Mario Lanza...
Little Boy Lost (Paramount). Bing Crosby, a seasoned performer who learned his footwork as second baseman for the Spokane Ideal Laundry's semi-pro team, has a startling way of turning up in unexpected places. Moviegoers who are used to Bing as a crooner and a light comedian may be startled to find him in this poignant tale about frustrated fatherhood...
...father, Bing plays it careful and a little close. He has never pretended to be an expert actor, but his pleasantly relaxed personality and obvious sincerity serve him well. Even when his lines are read without all the emotion they call for, Bing somehow remains true to the spirit of the film. As the boy, ten-year-old Christian Fourcade, a French child actor with, happily, no suggestion of the professional about him, has the delicate, transient quality of a sprite face seen out of the corner of the eye; looked at directly, his charm dissolves...