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Suppose you take a guy with a mellow manner and a voice of blue velvet, name of Bing Crosby, add several measures of topflight tapping by Fred Astaire, sprinkle happily with a few cups of amusement by Billy De Wolfe and Olga San Juan, stir in 32 Irving Berlin tunes of ageless vintage, and include (more or less as a seasoning afterthought) a pretty feline-eyed gal whom the boys call Joan Caulfield. The final product--"Blue Skies"--should be, and is, by cinema standards, a fine bit of musical entertainment. Its conventionally silly plot has Caulfield vacillating between Crosby...
...Strecker considers it significant that when Bing Crosby toured the South Pacific, the song which troops demanded most often was Brahms's Lullaby. Plaintive, demanding letters from mothers to their sons in the service, he thinks, did much to undermine the boys' morale...
Blue Skies. A silly plot doesn't matter if it has Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Irving Berlin songs (TIME...
...corporations. Like many of his gags, the basic idea was not new but the Hope treatment was. He set up the Hope Corp. for books, and Hope Records, Inc. for records. Both were wholly owned by Hope. But a third corporation, Hope Enterprises, Inc. had 25 other stockholders, including Bing Crosby, Director Leo McCarey, was designed for independent movies and personal appearances...
Blue Skies. A silly plot doesn't matter if it has Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Irving Berlin songs (TIME...