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...Paris, Bing Crosby brusquely denied reports from Hollywood of "strained relations" between him and onetime Musicomedienne Dixie Lee Crosby, his wife of 20 years and mother of his four children...
Riding High. Bing Crosby and a full stable of character actors, in Frank Capra's craftily contrived comedy about a race horse (TIME...
...Bing Crosby Enterprises was also putting its money (but not its Bing) into the making of 44 half-hour shorts, at an average cost of $12,000 apiece, for this year's Fireside Theater, with all secondary rights held by Crosby's firm. (Samples: The Man Without a Country, The Canterville Ghost.) Grant-Realm, another Hollywood outfit, has made 26 half-hour films of short stories for American Tobacco Co., at a cost of between $9,000 and $15,000 apiece...
What makes Riding High even better entertainment is the casting of a guileful, effortless Bing Crosby in the old Warner Baxter role of a happy-go-lucky racehorse owner-a part which fits Horse-Fancier Crosby as comfortably as the old clothes it gives him to wear. He rebels against the efforts of his fiancee and her moneybags father to imprison him in a job as the head of a paper box factory. Then, with the help of his fiancee's younger sister (who loves him from the start) and a colorful assortment of race-track characters, he scrounges...
...convertible, sampled two apartments and then leased a penthouse-all without being quite sure how she would meet the monthly payments. At Paramount she insisted on the services of the head make-up man as well as a downstairs dressing room (just between those used by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby). She made pressagents tear up her first publicity stills and shoot another set. When she visited the music department and was asked what sort of thing she did, she leaped onto Composer Johnny Mercer's back with a wild yell: "I do something like this...