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Going My Way (Paramount) goes the way of tons of Hollywood flesh this season: it is a religious picture (TIME, April 24). It is also one of the year's top surprises. It presents Bing Crosby as a Catholic priest, and gets away with it so gracefully that Crosby, the priesthood and the audience are equal gainers. It offers, in the performance of nutcracker-faced, 56-year-old Barry Fitzgerald, the finest, funniest and most touching portrayal of old age that has yet reached the screen. In so doing, it points the way to the great films which will...
...story, without rich characterization, would be nothing much. A young priest (Bing Crosby) is sent by his bishop to help out an old one (Barry Fitzgerald) in Manhattan's mortgage-ridden St. Dominic's. For a while, they do not get along; but young Father O'Malley fixes up everything else almost too easily. He deals with a delinquent girl (Jean Heather) so silkily that before long she is married. He handles the jail-fodder kids of the street so astutely that before long they are singing Mozart's Ave Verum and liking it. He even...
That first pass hurt our formation a lot. Forts were goin' down off our left wing-bing, bing, bing. Guys came balin' out of all but one. That one blew up-no pieces, even as big as a wheel, just tiny junk flyin' through...
...depress him. He got out. He had been dreaming up ballads in his ample spare time, and for a while he sang them over Shreveport's station KWKH. In the late '30s Decca made a record of his It Makes No Difference Now, made another with Bing Crosby doing the singing, and Davis was in demand. Since then his records have sold more than a million copies, and Davis has acquired 450 acres of farmland. He calls the farming his insurance. "When a man's in the business I'm in," he says, "things may blow...
...Sergeant? The network can boast that it has more good programs than any one chain at home. Transcriptions of Bob Hope, Jack Benny,Fred Allen, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith et al. arrive weekly and are broadcast with no breaks for such affairs as soap operas...