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Going My Way is a 1944 American musical comedy drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald. Written by Frank Butler and Frank Cavett, based on a story by McCarey, the film is about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran. Crosby sings five songs [2] with other songs performed ...
The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura. Top-grossing films (U.S.)
Below is a list of American films released in 1944. Going My Way won Best Picture at the 17th Academy Awards. The remaining four nominees were Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Since You Went Away and Wilson. Ministry of Fear directed by Fritz Lang.
1944 "Swinging on a Star" Going My Way: Won 1945 "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" Here Come the Waves: Nominated 1945 "Aren't You Glad You're You" The Bells of St. Mary's: Nominated 1946 "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" Blue Skies: Nominated 1951 "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" Here Comes the Groom: Won 1952 "Zing a Little Zong" Just ...
Following her college graduation, Heather signed a contract with Paramount. [1] She acted in two Oscar-nominated movies in 1944: the crime drama Double Indemnity, in which she played Lola Dietrichson, a young woman convinced that her stepmother Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) is responsible for the murder of her father, and Going My Way, where she played a runaway teenager assisted by Father O ...
Going My Way. (TV series) Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series starring dancer and actor Gene Kelly. Based on the 1944 film of the same name starring Bing Crosby, the series aired on ABC with new episodes from October 3, 1962, to September 11, 1963. [1][2] The program was Kelly's first and only attempt at a weekly television series. [3]
The film was placed 7th in the list of top-grossing movies in the USA in 1944.. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times commented, inter alia: "Paramount and its favored son, Bing Crosby aren't going precisely the same way that they went in Mr. Crosby's last picture ('Going My Way')—and everyone knows which way that was—but they are taking an agreeable turn together in "Here Come the Waves ...
Winners. Best English Language Film: None But the Lonely Heart. Best Documentary: Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress. Best Acting: Ethel Barrymore - None But the Lonely Heart. Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight. Humphrey Bogart - To Have and Have Not. Eddie Bracken - Hail the Conquering Hero. Bing Crosby - Going My Way.