"songs were featured on a 3-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-423. All songs written by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Johnny Burke (lyrics). Selections from Road to Utopia Selections from Road to Utopia is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1946 featuring songs that were presented in the American musical comedy film ""Road to Utopia"". However, the song ""Road to Morocco"" came from the film of the same name and was not actually used in ""Road to Utopia"". Another song - ""Goodtime Charlie"" - was sung by Crosby and Bob Hope in"
"Road to ... Road to ... is a series of seven comedy films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. They are also often referred to as the """"Road"" pictures or the """"Road"" series. The movies were a combination of adventure, comedy, romance, and music. The minimal plot often took a back seat to gags, many of them reportedly ad-libbed by Crosby and Hope during filming. Each film is not simply a comedy, but a satire of some of the popular film genres of the day, including jungle, Arabian nights, Alaskan adventure, and high seas. In 1977, an eighth"
"now is the distributor for all media. The copyright is now scheduled to run until 95 years after the publication date (2041). The film has not entered the public domain. Road to Utopia Road to Utopia is a 1946 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946, ""Road to Utopia"" is the fourth film of the """"Road to …"""" series. Written by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film is about two vaudeville performers at the turn of the twentieth century who go"
"Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, Tasmanian-born Errol Flynn, and a dance routine featuring Scottish bagpipes. As with the other Road movies, Bob Hope breaks the ""fourth wall"" several times to make side comments to the audience. For example, as the music for a song sung by Bing Crosby begins, Hope looks to the camera and says, ""He's gonna sing, folks. Now's the time to go out and get the popcorn."" Crosby breaks the fourth wall after Hope ""notices"" the audience is paying attention when he's about to tell Crosby how he escaped from the giant squid. Hope and Crosby"
"Road to Utopia Road to Utopia is a 1946 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946, ""Road to Utopia"" is the fourth film of the """"Road to …"""" series. Written by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film is about two vaudeville performers at the turn of the twentieth century who go to Alaska to make their fortune. Along the way they find a map to a secret gold mine. In 1947, ""Road to Utopia"" received an Academy Award nomination for Best"
"following year, Crosby and Hope reunited for one more ""Road"" movie, ""The Road to Hong Kong"", which teamed them up with the much younger Joan Collins and Peter Sellers. Collins was used in place of their longtime partner Dorothy Lamour, whom Crosby felt was getting too old for the role, though Hope refused to do the movie without her, and she instead made a cameo appearance. Shortly before his death in 1977, he had planned another ""Road"" film in which he, Hope, and Lamour search for the Fountain of Youth. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for ""Going"
"Road to Bali Road to Bali is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Released by Paramount Pictures on November 1, 1952, the film is the sixth of the seven ""Road to …"" movies. It was the only such movie filmed in Technicolor and was the first to feature surprise cameo appearances from other well-known stars of the day. George (Bing Crosby) and Harold (Bob Hope), American song-and-dance men performing in Melbourne, Australia, leave in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals. They end up in Darwin, where they"
"handles theatrical and home video distribution. The copyright is now scheduled to run until 95 years after the publication date (2035). Road to Singapore Road to Singapore is a 1940 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope. Based on a story by Harry Hervey, the film is about two playboys trying to forget previous romances in the Colony of Singapore, where they meet a beautiful woman. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film marked the debut of the long-running and popular """"Road to ..."""" series of pictures spotlighting the trio, seven"
"Elke Sommer. From their first meeting in 1932, Hope and Crosby teamed not only for the ""Road"" pictures, but for countless stage, radio, and television appearances and many brief movie appearances together over the decades until Crosby's death in 1977. Although the two invested together in oil leases and other business ventures, worked together frequently, and lived near each other, they rarely saw each other socially. After the release of ""Road to Singapore"" (1940), Hope's screen career took off, and he had a long and successful run. After an 11-year hiatus from the ""Road"" genre, he and Crosby reteamed for"
"by Liberty Records. ""The Road to Hong Kong"" was released to DVD by MGM Home Video in a Region 1 DVD on 1 April 2003. ""The Road to Hong Kong"" was released to Blu-ray (Region A) by Olive Films on 17 Feb 2015. The Road to Hong Kong The Road to Hong Kong is a 1962 British semi-musical comedy film directed by Norman Panama and starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, as well as Joan Collins, with an extended cameo featuring Dorothy Lamour in the setting of Hong Kong under British Rule. This was the last in the long-running ""Road"
"""The Road to Hong Kong"" (1962), starring the 28-year-old Joan Collins in place of Lamour, whom Crosby thought was too old for the part. They had planned one more movie together in 1977, ""The Road to the Fountain of Youth"", but filming was postponed when Crosby was injured in a fall, and the production was cancelled when he suddenly died of heart failure that October. Hope starred in 54 theatrical features between 1938 and 1972, as well as cameos and short films. Most of his later movies failed to match the stratospheric success of his 1940s efforts. He was disappointed"
"same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, and audio recording. He was also known for his collaborations with longtime friend Bob Hope, starring in the ""Road to..."" films from 1940 to 1962. Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of an early Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorder, he placed a large order for their equipment and convinced ABC to allow him to tape his shows. He became"
"considered publication date. Renewal was filed by EMKA, Ltd., which acquired Paramount's classic pre-1950 library in 1957. Today, EMKA is part of NBC Universal Television Distribution, and Universal Studios is now the theatrical and home video distributor. The copyright is now scheduled to run until 95 years after the publication date (2036). The film has not entered the public domain. Road to Zanzibar Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 Paramount Pictures semi-musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second of seven picture in the popular """"Road to …"""" series made by the trio."
"name of Hope's character, ""Chester Babcock"", is an in-joke. Edward Chester Babcock was the real name of Hollywood composer Jimmy Van Heusen, whose work is featured in this and other ""Road"" pictures. The lamasery where Hope goes to restore his memory is reused from ""Black Narcissus"". Peter Sellers' appearance as an Indian physician involves extended interplay with Crosby and Hope. The plot of the film (released 22 May 1962) involves espionage and space rockets predating ""Dr. No"" (released 5 October 1962) and the spy craze of the 1960s. Hope and Crosby are up against a SPECTRE type organization called ""The"
"real place in its title though Alaska with its gold mines is referred to as ""Utopia"" several times in the film. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour starred, as they did in all but one of the series. The film is also the only ""Road"" film that did not take place in modern times though the film begins and ends with the cast made up to look older who flashback to the past. As a “narrator”, humor essayist Robert Benchley provides some wry commentary that is interspersed throughout the movie (Benchley died several months before the film's release). There"
"Road to Zanzibar Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 Paramount Pictures semi-musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second of seven picture in the popular """"Road to …"""" series made by the trio. It takes place in the Sultanate of Zanzibar. Paramount executives owned the rights to a story by Sy Bartlett titled ""Find Colonel Fawcett"" about two men trekking through the jungles of Madagascar. They felt that its plot was so similar to the recently released ""Stanley and Livingstone"" (1939) that it could not be made as written without seeming too derivative,"
"Road to Rio Road to Rio is a 1947 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. ""Road to Rio"" was the fifth of the """"Road to …"""" series. Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out-of-work musicians, travel the United States trying to find work and stay away from"
"Road to Singapore Road to Singapore is a 1940 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope. Based on a story by Harry Hervey, the film is about two playboys trying to forget previous romances in the Colony of Singapore, where they meet a beautiful woman. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film marked the debut of the long-running and popular """"Road to ..."""" series of pictures spotlighting the trio, seven in all. The supporting cast features Charles Coburn, Anthony Quinn, and Jerry Colonna. It takes place in Singapore under British Rule."
"The Road to Hong Kong The Road to Hong Kong is a 1962 British semi-musical comedy film directed by Norman Panama and starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, as well as Joan Collins, with an extended cameo featuring Dorothy Lamour in the setting of Hong Kong under British Rule. This was the last in the long-running ""Road to …"" series and the only one not produced by Paramount Pictures, though references to the others in the series are made in the film and shown in Maurice Binder's opening title sequence. The story is told in flashback as Diane (Joan Collins)"
"The Road to Hong Kong (soundtrack) The Road to Hong Kong is a soundtrack album issued by Liberty Records (No. LOM 16002) from the film of the same name. The film starred Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins and Robert Morley with cameos from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Sellers and David Niven. Robert Farnon conducted the music for the film. All the songs were written by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics). Robert Farnon wrote four orchestral pieces for the soundtrack and these are annotated in the listing. Bing’s love ballad – “Let’s Not Be"
"down pat. Although the ""Road to Singapore"" script was written by established screenwriters Frank Butler and Don Hartman and directed by Victor Schertzinger, some of the material was ad libbed by Hope and Crosby or surreptitiously contributed by their own writing staffs (including Sid Kuller and Ray Golden). Filming began in Hollywood on October 2, 1939 and continued until December. The jungle scenes were filmed at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. This was the only installment of the series in which Hope was billed third, under Dorothy Lamour. After this picture, the billing order remained Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and"
"career—to later create variations of the song to fit specific circumstances, such as bidding farewell to troops while on tour or mentioning the names of towns in which he was performing. As a movie star, Hope was best known for such comedies as ""My Favorite Brunette"" and the highly successful ""Road"" movies in which he starred with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. The series consists of seven films made between 1940 and 1962 -- ""Road to Singapore"" (1940), ""Road to Zanzibar"" (1941), ""Road to Morocco"" (1942), ""Road to Utopia"" (1946), ""Road to Rio"" (1947), ""Road to Bali"" (1952), and ""The"
"this film (as the successor in interest to LBS Communications), and official video releases have been issued under license from Fremantle, with DVD and HD-DVD releases coming from BCI Eclipse. A Blu-Ray was released on July 5, 2017 by the Kino International (company). Road to Bali Road to Bali is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Released by Paramount Pictures on November 1, 1952, the film is the sixth of the seven ""Road to …"" movies. It was the only such movie filmed in Technicolor and was the"
"herself late in the film. In her autobiography, Lamour wrote that Crosby thought her too old to be a leading lady (she was 48), while Hope refused to do the film without her. Her extended cameo that featured her singing with Hope and Crosby was a compromise. Other cameos are provided by David Niven, Peter Sellers, Roger Delgado, Jerry Colonna, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. In order to preserve the feel of the 1940s and '50s ""Road"" films, the movie was shot in black and white (even as the previous entry ""Road to Bali"" had been shot in color). The"
"which continues to credit CPT as the copyright holder, as evidenced by recent video releases by BCI Eclipse, and now, as of the present, Shout! Factory (under Fremantle's license). The film was preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Road to Rio Road to Rio is a 1947 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off"
"cautious having seen a preview and their comments may have resulted in the removal of a couple of scenes. ""Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour are back again in another of Paramount’s highway sagas, this time in Technicolor, with nonsensical amusement it’s only destination. That end is reached eventually, but the road isn’t a smooth highway and the entertainment occasionally falters. Overall, however, it serves its intended purpose satisfactorily and the grossing prospects are okay...Hal Walker’s direction is geared to the free-wheeling spirit that dominates the script and does well by it, as do the three stars and the"
"films with W.C. Fields), ""The Big Broadcast of 1936"", ""The Big Broadcast of 1937"", ""A Damsel in Distress"" (1937) in which they danced step-for-step with Fred Astaire, and ""College Swing"" (1938) in which Bob Hope made one of his early film appearances. ""Honolulu"" would be Burns's last movie for nearly 40 years. Burns and Allen were indirectly responsible for the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby series of ""Road"" pictures. In 1938, William LeBaron, producer and managing director at Paramount, had a script prepared by Don Hartman and Frank Butler. It was to star Burns and Allen with Bing Crosby, who"
"Road to Bali (album) Road to Bali is a Decca Records studio album by Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Peggy Lee of songs featured in the film Road to Bali released in 1952. All of the songs were written by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Johnny Burke (lyrics). The songs were featured on a 10” vinyl LP numbered DL 5444 and in a 3-disc 45rpm box set numbered 9-375. Dorothy Lamour starred in the actual film with Bing and Bob but for the Decca recordings her place was taken by Peggy Lee. Recording dates follow track titles. All of the"
"Lee was drafted in to take her place. A pleasant enough novelty song put over competently by the vocalists. At least Bing did sing it once on his radio show which is more than he did with “Hoot Mon” and “The Road to Bali”. Road to Bali (album) Road to Bali is a Decca Records studio album by Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Peggy Lee of songs featured in the film Road to Bali released in 1952. All of the songs were written by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Johnny Burke (lyrics). The songs were featured on a 10” vinyl"
"Road to Hong Kong"" (1962). Hope had seen Lamour performing as a nightclub singer in New York, and invited her to work on his United Service Organizations (USO) tours of military facilities. Lamour sometimes arrived for filming prepared with her lines, only to be baffled by completely rewritten scripts or ad lib dialogue between Hope and Crosby. Hope and Lamour were lifelong friends, and she remains the actress most associated with his film career although he made movies with dozens of leading ladies, including such luminaries as Katharine Hepburn, Paulette Goddard, Hedy Lamarr, Lucille Ball, Rosemary Clooney, Jane Russell, and"
"Lee recorded the Lamour vocals. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Peggy Lee recorded all of the songs for Decca Records and these were issued on a 10"" LP. Crosby's songs were also included in the Bing's Hollywood series. ""Road to Bali"" was parodied in 1953 in the animated short ""Alley to Bali"", with Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard in the Hope and Crosby roles. The cartoon was released by Universal Studios, which currently owns the first four ""Road to..."" films. The film was copyrighted under registration LP2200 1 January 1953. That registration entry also shows ""in notice: 1952"", meaning that"
"Bob Hope Leslie Townes Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) known professionally as Bob Hope, was an American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with 54 feature films with Hope as star, including a series of seven ""Road"" musical comedy movies with Bing Crosby as Hope's top-billed partner. In addition to hosting the Academy Awards show 19 times, more than any other host, he appeared in many stage productions and television roles, and was"
"Third Echelon"" who have their own underwater secret headquarters and are led by Robert Morley with James Bond film regular Walter Gotell as ""Dr. Zorbb"" and Bob Simmons as an astronaut. The film's art director is another Bond film regular, Syd Cain. Although the movie features the same kind of antics and gags as previous episodes, with all characters trying their utmost to help each other, the film was not as well-received as its predecessors. Some critics felt that the 59-year-old Hope and Crosby couldn't pull off the part credibly at their age and that it was unfair for them"