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...McCarey, director of Going My Way, explained why his hit movie had never been shown in Russia. "I have a character in there they don't like." Bing Crosby? he was asked. "No," said McCarey...
...gags, the basic idea was not new but the Hope treatment was. He set up the Hope Corp. for books, and Hope Records, Inc. for records. Both were wholly owned by Hope. But a third corporation, Hope Enterprises, Inc. had 25 other stockholders, including Bing Crosby, Director Leo McCarey, was designed for independent movies and personal appearances...
...productions, been drowned in a flood of dialogue and cute piano-peeking. Margaret Dumont, accused by Groucho of looking like an old tenement, is the perfect foil through bedroom to parlor to bedroom. If S.J. Perelman did not invent the gags there was some compensation in money-maker Leo McCarey's direction...
...McCarey, Hollywood producer-director (Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary's), was top man on the year's first U.S. Treasury list of the best-paid people. His take: $1,113,035. (Federal income tax on that much income: about...
Despite its smattering of genuine McCarey touches, "The Bells of St. Mary's" suffers both by its similarity and inferiority to the 1944 Academy Award Winner; it is a more shadow of "Going My Way," partaking of its shape but not its substance...