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The crooner Lobby card for the 1942 film Holiday Inn shows Fred Astaire dancing with Marjorie Reynolds on a decorated stage, while Bing Crosby sits at a grand piano in the foreground. Bing Crosby, in casual clothes, stands beside Barry Fitzgerald, dressed as a priest, in a garden scene from the 1944 film Going My Way. Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming in costume as they hold hands, with Crosby looking at Fleming and Fleming gazing upward, in a scene from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949). Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby sit at a kitchen table having an intense conversation in a scene from the 1954 film The Country Girl. Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen, and Danny Kaye dressed in matching red and white holiday costumes, standing together in falling snow in a scene from White Christmas. Promotional photo for High Society (1956) showing Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Celeste Holm in formal attire, standing in pairs and smiling. Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in The Country Girl
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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: AllMusic - Bing Crosby. Aug 25, 2026
Anniversary information added. Apr 29, 2026
Noted that “White Christmas” is the best-selling single of all time. Added top questions and head levels. Dec 10, 2025
Added a subtitle. Dec 10, 2025
Anniversary information added. Oct 10, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - Bing Crosby: From The Vaults, Surprising Breadth. Jun 21, 2025
Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Bing Crosby’s life and career. Apr 15, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Feb 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Bing Crosby - 8/3. Apr 27, 2023
Article revised and updated. Oct 09, 2017
Replaced photographs. Mar 20, 2017
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Biography of Bing Crosby. Jan 09, 2017
Add new Web site: Songwriters Hall of Fame - Biography of BING CROSBY. Feb 04, 2014
Add new Web site: Naxos Records - Bing Crosby. Jan 13, 2014
Add new Web site: All About Jazz - Bing Crosby. Apr 08, 2013
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Bing Crosby. Apr 08, 2013
Added new Web site: Class Act - Biography of Bing Crosby. Oct 10, 2007
Added new Web site: Solid! - Biography of Bing Crosby. Oct 10, 2007
Added new Web site: SwingMusic.Net - Biography of Bing Crosby. Oct 10, 2007
Added new Web site: Official Site of Bing Crosby. Oct 10, 2007
Added new Web site: Radio Hall of Fame - Biography of Bing Crosby. Oct 10, 2007
Media added. Jan 04, 2007
Article revised. May 04, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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