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...plot is complex at first glance; but it really doesn't amount to much. Betty Hutton starts out as twin sisters; one who is an ardent Bing Crosby fan, and the other who thinks him an annoying crooner. Bing, as a sobbing singer--genus Sinatraensis--falls for the twin who will have none of him. In the course of action the Waves get both Betty Huttons, Bing gets the sensible sister, and the bobby-sock twin gets left with Sonny Tufts, who doesn't seem to care...
...Bing suffers in this film Bob Hope did in "The princess and The Pirate." Together, the two are comedians separately, Bob is a comic without a foil and Bing a straight man struggling to be funny. Except for his painful parody of Frank Sinatra, Bing's singing is regular Crosby stuff and good if you like...
...France have had a lot of entertainment from home since the first five U.S.O. units waded ashore in Normandy last July and promptly merged into one mammoth revue, practically on the beach. Dozens of other units have jested and jeeped their way around the fronts; such headliners as Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Edward G. Robinson, Morton Downey, Fred Astaire have come & gone...
Radio tastes of 1,000-odd magazine and newspapermen were reported by the trade paper Radio Daily. The journalists voted Information Please their favorite commercial and quiz show; Bob Hope, favorite entertainer (and comedian); Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore, favorite popular songsters; Lowell Thomas, favorite commentator; New York Philharmonic-Symphony, favorite symphony orchestra; One Man's Family, favorite soap opera...
Same day, Motion Picture Herald, having completed its annual poll of exhibitors, revealed that the No. i box-office star of the year was Bing Crosby, phenomenally popular in Going...