Derek Winnert

Here Come the Waves *** (1944, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Ann Doran) – Classic Movie Review 7393

Director Mark Sandrich’s rather feebly written 1944 wartime patriotic musical Here Come the Waves is rescued by exuberant stars Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton and by one great new song –  Harold Arlen (music) and […]

Aug, 03 · in Reviews

Waikiki Wedding *** (1937, Bing Crosby, Shirley Ross, Bob Burns, Martha Raye) – Classic Movie Review 7392

Director Frank Tuttle’s pleasant, carefree 1937 musical comedy romance Waikiki Wedding stars a fresh-faced Bing Crosby, who croons the grass skirts off Hawaiian maidens, in this entirely jovial and genial Paramount Pictures musical, best remembered, […]

Aug, 03 · in Reviews

East Side of Heaven *** (1939, Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer) – Classic Movie Review 7391

Director David Butler’s nice but only middling 1939 Universal Pictures black and white musical comedy with songs East Side of Heaven stars Bing Crosby as a crooning cabbie called Denny Martin, who is surrogate dad to […]

Aug, 03

If I Had a Million **** (1932, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W C Fields, George Raft, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 7,390

The 1932 comedy film If I Had a Million has a simple, well executed idea: a dying eccentric millionaire decides to give a million dollars to eight people picked at random from the phone book to […]

Aug, 02

Double or Nothing *** (1937, Bing Crosby, Mary Carlisle, Martha Raye, Andy Devine, William Frawley, Benny Baker) – Classic Movie Review 7389

Director Theodore Reed’s 1937 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy musical Double or Nothing re-teams Bing Crosby and Mary Carlisle after College Humor (1933), and also stars Martha Raye, Andy Devine, William Frawley and Benny Baker. […]

Aug, 02

Doctor Rhythm *** (1938, Bing Crosby, Mary Carlisle, Beatrice Lillie, Andy Devine) – Classic Movie Review 7388

Director Frank Tuttle’s 1938 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy musical Doctor Rhythm re-teams Bing Crosby and Mary Carlisle after College Humor (1933) and Double or Nothing (1937), and also stars Beatrice Lillie, Andy Devine and Laura […]

Aug, 02

College Humor *** (1933, Bing Crosby, Mary Carlisle, Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, George Burns, Gracie Allen) – Classic Movie Review 7387

American actress, singer, and dancer Mary Carlisle (born Gwendolyn Witter on 3 February 1914 and died at 104 on 1 August 2018) starred in several Thirties Hollywood films, after being one of 15 young actresses selected as a […]

Aug, 02

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