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There's plenty of slapstick mostly a clever rehash of the best parts in "The Road to Singapore" and The Road to Zanzibar," Bob Hope and Bing Crosby get chased around until they run into Dorothy Lamour. Then they enter the chase, neither overlooking the slightest opportunity to cut the other's throat. The only hand between them is the memory of their common "Aunt Lucy" whose ghostly form makes numerous and picturesque appearances throughout the picture. Bing eventually comes out the winner. He gets the girl. But Bob manages to corral a choice specimen from his temporary harem...
Tailored by Tunesmith Irving Berlin for the suave, sleepy voice of Cinemactor Bing Crosby, this song (from Paramount's Holiday Inn) originally expressed the longing for sleet and ice of an Easterner marooned among the palm trees of Hollywood. But with thousands of U.S. servicemen facing snowless Christmases from North Africa to Guadalcanal, White Christmas has unexpectedly become the first big sentimental song hit of World...
Baltimore's semiweekly Afro-American promptly reminded Tunesmith Berlin that "the term 'd-y' [is] offensive to colored people." Said the Afro-American: "The piece is sung by Bing Crosby . . . and came to the attention of the Afro after it was blatantly rendered in its naked aspect by Fred Waring...
Road to Morocco (Paramount) is interrupted midway by a Hapsburg-looking camel who remarks: "This is the screwiest picture I was ever in." No strangers to screwballistics, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour may well agree with...
...mixed up in it and, against Father's wishes, walks off with both a job and Rita. These complications are set to smooth music by Jerome Kern, which is served up, with whipped cream, by Xavier Cugat. Hoofer Astaire sings two tunes aptly enough to raise one of Bing Crosby's sleepy eyebrows, conducts Miss Hayworth through a lush nocturnal duet...