Hollywood & The Stars: The One & Only Bing

A look at the life and career of Bing Crosby.

[@glennso47]

Ba ba ba boo! It’s A Wonderful Life had one scene where George Bailey was passing by the movie theater and the movie was The Bells of St. Mary.

[@waimbuthia820]

Is it crazy that, as an African, I'm completely taken with such entertainers like the fabulous Bing Crosby, one of world's greatest comedians (in my opinion, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, & many others of this era as I am with, say, the Jazz greats, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis & the equally beyond talented Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte & too others too many to count? I enjoy Dennis Day, also, because I like Irish music & even various young African American rappers & a few country musicians. Wait. Can't forget the Man In Black, AKA, Johnny Cash. Or Sam Cooke, et., etc., etc. My eclectic taste is wild. People are surprised when I tell them about the kinds of music or class radio/tv shows I stream. This is the thing: Quality is quality. Also, I think my adventurous nature & artistic bent make me more open to different experiences. Life's richer this way. Now, if you'll all excuse me, I'll return to the amazing Bing C!

[@halrobinson2737]

Jolson, Crosby, Sinatra, Martin. Now that was talent!

[@fandorjuve9129]

Great stuff!. Bing was as big as anyone in show business, then or now!

[@Annamaria-iq1wy]

Bing era un uomo molto discutibile nella vita reale. Fu crudele e cattivo con i suoi familiari e non mi ha mai ispirato simpatia! Fu solo molto fortunato!

[@ep8324]

The abuse claims you're referring to have been proven to be lies by now.

[@mikeycondry1493]

Greatest of all time

[@NotHarpoGroucho]

What a guy

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on December 23, 1963.

[@tomservo56954]

Joseph Cotten said this would be the next installment at the end of "Funny Men" on.11/29...were they preempted three Mondays in a row?

[@chrisb1682]

Brilliant! Thank you! 😆💕🌿

[@wayneblack990]

Regardless of what you think about Crosby, he sang like all men would like to be able to sing.

[@kathylopez5278]

i always liked his voice but when i read how mean he was to his first 4 sons with 2 of them taking their own lives. And he was also mean to his first wife, the mother of his first 4 sons. That changed my mind. HE wasn't mean to his 2d wife & 3 more children. I always wondered WHY he hated Dixie & their 4 sons.

[@birdy369]

Oh I don't know much about Bing at all, so I've never heard of this before. I think I'll take a look into it today. How terrible!

[@walnutelm7365]

his sons didn't kill themselves because of the way he raised them, most of gary's book was made up nonsense, and he certainly didn't hate Dixie.

[@hemming57]

Age

[@gopherstate777]

You know nobody is perfect and he was a big drinker when he was young. But he did a good job when he got a second chance. I say overall we are not here on earth to be perfect but to learn from our mistakes and do better. Bing did just that.

[@barbarapineda9062]

Oh pleased he's a.human regardless, he's cruelty. Or not he's had graduated from high school's and study laws, and attending colleges, and dropped outs. Those times n..his generational,not many those yrs, attended colleges, or gotten too farther he's, no longers with individ...now he's had passed and died manys yrs, ago, 1970s r.n.p.irish man, Bing Crosby, you's had a fantastical voicals,.and it's cleared. You's knews that's you's not so perfectly, and.told his, fourth son's, I had flunked but I'm greatest as singers, and only on stages, also m...time's has ended so. Moved on too some things new. Very talented,

[@barbarapineda9062]

This former actor's had a wonderful voicals, wow!!! Also I reads a articles longs times ago, frank a. Sinatra, wanted too be likes, Bing Crosby, heards others, artised sangs and mights had says the sames things, but his, films, was a flop wasn't all thats.greatest he's had failed, all haves failed I had failed I knews I did'nt makes its I knews all the times, when I were n..classes also I had told tutors, and the professors, too also they's not a psyc...maybe or not psyc..

[@billygillan2217]

As a entertainer he was one of the best as a first time husband and father truly one of the worst and cruelest ,but White Christmas will always be one of the greatest,but the Dixie and kids truly sad and meaning of a cruel heartless bastard.

[@tomripsin8321]

I'm surprised not even passing reference is made to the allegations of child abuse against him, but I guess it's not that kind of a show.

[@mr.balloffur]

+Tom Ripsin They didn't sling those types of allegations back then and doing so would have helped no one. Not the father, not the kids or Jack Haley Jr.

[@tomripsin8321]

Actually, as a fan of classic radio drama, I can attest that they very definitely did report on the allegations against Mr. Crosby. I've heard ads for magazine interviews with his sons, & news reports on the same topic that even predate this documentary.

[@mr.balloffur]

Their career's would have been tainted if not over in the case of the kids not to mention the producer who's family where personal family friends of the Crosby family.It wasn't spoken about. This was about BC's career not what some of his kids allegedly said, no matter how scandalous it may have been.

[@patthecatman]

i can only say that philip, a son, said it was all untrue, that gary needed money, thru his book. bing was a great guy

[@LazlosPlane]

Cletus, this show aired in 1963, about 25 years before anyone had a clue there might have been child abuse. We still don't know for sure what happened and to what extent.

[@garycarpenter2980]

He had a great voice and talent but was a lousy family man

[@scotnick59]

you said that right.

[@glennso47]

A lot of celebrities are the same way. Very talented entertainers but bad family people.

[@esmeephillips5888]

One son said so, the others disagreed.

[@blancamiranda6661]

He really wasn't a good looking man😎

[@malcolmnorton2217]

In his first 35 or so years he was extremely handsome! Protruding ears and all!

[@esmeephillips5888]

Nor was Fred Astaire, but charm conquers all.

[@sparx180]

Bing had a goodie shoe image. Nothing could be further from the truth. He had 5 sons with his first wife and he used to beat the hell out of them. Two committed suicide and I believe another one did too when he learned his father did not put any of them in his will.

[@ep8324]

All these allegations have been proved to be wrong. Gary, the one who had spread those claims of abuse against Bing admitted himself that he had lied!

[@garycarpenter2980]

He was a really great singer and actor but he was a very bad family man. Talk about DR. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, he had a great circle of friends including BH but treated his family as if they were dirt

[@barbarapineda9062]

I disagreed that former singers, Bing Crosby, it's a only singers, that's can sangs better artised, he's flunked actor's, his, films it's a flop okay.

[@frederickanderson1860]

Raised by the Jesuits two of his children commited suicide