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Bing Crosby Screen Legend Collection – 3 dvd set – (TCM Release)  

Disc 1-

Waikiki Wedding (1937;dir. Frank Tuttle)- A beauty contest winner of the “Miss Pineapple Princess” pageant takes part in a publicity scheme in Hawaii, and is pursued by an advertising executive for the agency doing the promotion.

Double Or Nothing (1937;dir. Theodore Reed)-In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist’s will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount– without dishonesty– will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire. Songs include: “It’s On, It’s Off,” “Double or Nothing,” “Listen My Children,” “Smarty,” “The Moon Got in My Eyes” and “After You.”

Disc 2-

East Side Of Heaven (1939;dir. David Butler)-Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his roommate, dour doorman Mischa Auer, Crosby offers care and shelter to the infant until he can locate the parents.

If I Had My Way (1940;dir. David Butler)-In this musical drama, a construction worker becomes the guardian of a 12-year old girl after one of his buddies is killed. She and he head to New York to look for her uncle, a vaudevillian. With the help of a good pal, they soon find the uncle. The three searchers encounter trouble when the pal uses all their money to buy a ramshackle restaurant. Songs include: “I Haven’t The Time To Be A Millionaire”, “Meet The Sun Halfway”, “April Played The Fiddle”, “The Pessimistic Character (With The Crab Apple Face)”, “If I Had My Way”, “Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider”, and “Rings On My Fingers”.

Disc 3-

Here Come The Waves (1944;dir. Mark Sandrich)- This peppy wartime musical stars Bing Crosby as radio crooner Johnny Cabot, the heartthrob of millions. To escape his frenzied fans, Johnny joins the Navy, where is he ordering to aid a WAVE recruiting drive. his is the film in which Bing Crosby and Sonny Tufts, both in blackface, introduce the Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen standard “Accen-tu-ate the Positive”.