Road to Singapore

and Dorothy Lamour, beginning with Road to Singapore (1940). Perhaps the best known in the series is Road to Morocco (1942), which is widely regarded as a classic. His other films include White Christmas and The Country Girl (both 1954); for the latter, Crosby received his third and final Academy…

In 1940 Hope made Road to Singapore, the first of seven popular “Road” pictures in which he costarred with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. Characterized by lighthearted irreverence, absurd sight gags, and an abundance of in-jokes, the Road pictures embody the brazen style of comedy in vogue during the…

The first "Road" picture, Road to Singapore (1940), was such a success that four more were made in the 1940s, another in 1953, and the last in 1962. Lamour was also in such films as the wartime musical The Fleet’s In (1942), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), and…