Bing Crosby ... as Bing Crosby thought Dorothy Lamour was too old to play a leading lady at 48, which was why Collins was brought in. Bob Hope said he wouldn’t do the movie without her, so ...

Recorded a month and a half before his death, we see Bing in great form performing many songs he was associated with. He is accompanied by the Joe Bushkin Quartet and his son Harry Crosby.

The 1940 musical film Rhythm on the River has one of those silly, weightless and predictable plot lines that fueled those Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers classics in the 30s: couple meets, feels an ...