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...Others: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra...
Like many another successful man, Nelson Eddy thinks he was better fitted for another calling. Eddy's conviction, shared by almost no one, is that he is a born comedian. His producers discreetly shelve scripts he painfully prepares for them. He idolizes the comic ease of Bing Crosby. His associates readily forgive Eddy such blatant clowning as hiding from the director under Jeanette MacDonald's hoop skirts. Frugal, suspicious, Eddy is nevertheless as honestly congenial as a puppy...
Going My Way (Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald; TIME...
Going My Way (Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald; TIME...
Ditties like this were being sung to teenagers all over the U.S. last week. In cinema houses throughout the land, Bing Crosby addressed some 40,000,000 Americans (via a movie short), urging that high-school youngsters go back to school this month. Frank Sinatra wrote a syndicated newspaper appeal. Superman, the Lone Ranger, the Quiz Kids, the Air Forces' General H. H. Arnold, the Marines' Lieut. General A. A. Vandegrift chimed in. The U.S. Government was conducting the biggest back-to-school drive in history...