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...decided to stake his whole profit on promotion, turned himself into the Madman. His billboards, with their mad legends ("I wanna give them away, but Mrs. Muntz won't let me. She's crazy.") and his singing commercials made his name a California gag. Red Skelton, Bing Crosby and others kidded his commercials, the University of Southern California rooting section spelled out his name at halftime, and soldiers at Santa Ana Camp marched into chow singing "MUNTZ, that's Muntz." And his gross jumped from $150,000 to $1,000,000 a month. Dissatisfied with car design...
CALL ME LUCKY (344 pp.)-Bing Crosby (as told to Pete Martin)-Simon & Schuster (cloth bound, $3.50; paper bound...
...years since his stage debut at Webster, little Harry Crosby, better known as Bing, has been converted into something like a public utility in the entertainment business. After 25 years of fame, Bing's voice, on records, still fills U.S. airwaves, and his name on a movie marquee is as big a draw, year in year out, as any name in Hollywood...
...hunting mobsters and perambulating zombies. When he is not being locked in a trunk or imprisoned in a haunted castle's torture chamber, Jerry also imitates Carmen Miranda, and Dean sings (I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine, San Domingo). Interesting bit players: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. For Comedian Hope, Scared Stiff must seem like very old stuff. It was called The Ghost Breakers in 1940, when Hope played the lead in a far funnier and scarier movie version of the old (1913) stage play...
There's Music in You (Bing Crosby; Decca). A new Rodgers & Hammerstein tune from the upcoming movie, Main Street to Broadway. Typically first-rate R & H, and better-than-average Crosby...