Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes Riding High even better entertainment is the casting of a guileful, effortless Bing Crosby in the old Warner Baxter role of a happy-go-lucky racehorse owner-a part which fits Horse-Fancier Crosby as comfortably as the old clothes it gives him to wear. He rebels against the efforts of his fiancee and her moneybags father to imprison him in a job as the head of a paper box factory. Then, with the help of his fiancee's younger sister (who loves him from the start) and a colorful assortment of race-track characters, he scrounges...
...gaudy rumors were already well launched before True came into the picture. Four months ago, Los Angeles heard that rocket tests at White Sands Proving Grounds were being watched from above by interplanetary interlopers. Repeated from mouth to mouth with amplification and new twists, the story got fancier...