Just seen in the 'Gramophone' magazine that Rise Stevens has died three months short of her
100th birthday where it is noted that she sang an aria in the Oscar winning Bing Crosby film Going My Way..

Watching Alfred Hitchcocks's 1936 film Sabotage I see that there is a two minute excerpt of
Walt Disney's cartoon Who Killed Cock Robin at around 59 minutes into the film. Is this known about?
Bert

I may have missed reference to the following but has anyone watched The Road To Home on the internet? Starring Bing & Bob it is obviously a US government short directed at American navy personnel at the end of the war advising them not to 'jump ship' but go through the proper channels for their release, outlining the financial advantages, etc. I watched it with Trevor Wagstaff last Friday evening and it was new to both of us.

Hi Ron!  Well done! Keep your eyes and ears open for more Bing in films.  A new one to me is a cartoon that I've not heard of or seen before.  On the recommendation of Gary Giddins [from his new book on the cinema]  I've bought a few DVDs he refers to and one of them is a box set of Hammer movies that has extras one of which is a Color Rhapsody cartoon dating from 1936 which is entitled The Merry Mutineers.  Basis of the short film is two boys sailing their 'pirate ships' on a pond and turn to attack each other.  Close up of the ships' crews reveal famous film stars including Bing as a sailor painting a mast - a pinch from Anything Goes of the same year. Bing changes into a 'mammy' character when he gets covered in paint.  Other celebrities  include The Three Stooges  Wallace Beery, Charles Laughton [as Cpt. Bligh], W.C. Fields, The Marx Bros., Jimmy Durante, Laurel & Hardy, Fred Astaire, Joe E. Brown, George Arliss.  Is this film familiar to anyone? Bert

Watchng the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can [Leonardo di Caprio as a real-life conman] recently I heard Bing and the Andrews Sisters singing Mele Kalikimaka and wondered if this has been previously noted? Also, is there an available list of instances of Bing songs in non-Bing films?  I know of some but maybe not all.  As a film buff outside of Mr. C I'd like to collect them all!
Bert