Going My Way/Holiday Inn

Musik

Bing Crosby	Jim Hardy
Fred Astaire	Ted Hanover
Marjorie Reynolds	Linda Mason
Virginia Dale	Lila Dixon
Walter Abel	Danny Reed
Porter Hall
Jean Heather
Gene Lockhart
James Brown
Frank McHugh
Barry Fitzgerald
Risë Stevens
Louise Beavers	Mamie
Irving Bacon	Gus
Marek Windheim	François
James Bell	Dunbar
John Gallaudet	Parker

Director	Mark Sandrich; Leo McCarey
Producer	Leo McCarey; Mark Sandrich
Writer	Claude Binyon; Irving Berlin

Going My Way
This irresistible Oscar winner from writer-director Leo McCarey (An Affair to Remember) stars Bing Crosby as a low-key, crooning priest who joins the parish of a no-nonsense but sweet old Irish man of the cloth (Barry Fitzgerald). While Bing turns local toughs into a choir, the elder priest worries over the church building fund and whether he'll get a chance to see his old mother back in Ireland before she dies. One would have to have a heart of stone not to be won over by this charmer, with a lovely ending guaranteed to make you bawl for a week. --Tom Keogh

Holiday Inn
This perennial, Christmas-season favorite from 1942 teamed Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as entertainers (and rival suitors of Marjorie Reynolds) running an inn that is only open on holidays. It's a great excuse for lots of singing and dancing, seamlessly wrapped in a catchy story, and Astaire's frequent director Mark Sandrich (Top Hat, Shall We Dance) doesn't let us down. The Irving Berlin numbers (each one connected to a different holiday) are winners, with Crosby's warm performance of "White Christmas" a movie touchstone. --Tom Keogh