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The Road to Hollywood (1947)

The Road to Hollywood poster
Directed by
Leslie Pearce, Del Lord, Mack Sennett
Genre
musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film strings together a few short comedy and musical pieces featuring Bing Crosby from his early days. The clips show Crosby performing songs and doing comic sketches before he became a major star.

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What happens

The Road to Hollywood is a 1947 American film released by Astor Pictures that is a combination of several of Bing Crosby's Educational Pictures short subjects. The title was designed to draft off Paramount Pictures' "Road to..." film series starring Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour; Hope and Lamour do not appear in the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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