Editing Bing Crosby (section)

===Motion pictures===
{{main|Bing Crosby filmography}}
[[File:Marquita Rivera with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.jpeg|upright=.8|left|thumb|[[Bob Hope]], [[Marquita Rivera]], and Bing Crosby in 1947]]

In the wake of a solid decade of headlining mainly smash hit musical comedy films in the 1930s, Crosby starred with Bob Hope and [[Dorothy Lamour]] in six of the seven ''[[Road to]]'' musical comedies between 1940 and 1962 (Lamour was replaced with Joan Collins in ''[[The Road to Hong Kong]]'' and limited to a lengthy cameo), cementing Crosby and Hope as an on-and-off duo, despite never declaring themselves a "team" in the sense that [[Laurel and Hardy]] or [[Martin and Lewis]] ([[Dean Martin]] and [[Jerry Lewis]]) were teams. The series consists of ''[[Road to Singapore]]'' (1940), ''[[Road to Zanzibar]]'' (1941), ''[[Road to Morocco]]'' (1942), ''[[Road to Utopia]]'' (1946), ''[[Road to Rio]]'' (1947), ''[[Road to Bali]]'' (1952), and ''[[The Road to Hong Kong]]'' (1962). When they appeared solo, Crosby and Hope frequently made note of the other in a comically insulting fashion. They performed together countless times on stage, radio, film, and television, and made numerous brief and not so brief appearances together in movies aside from the "Road" pictures, ''[[Variety Girl]]'' (1947) being an example of lengthy scenes and songs together along with billing.

In the 1949 Disney animated film ''[[The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad]]'', Crosby provided the narration and song vocals for ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' segment. In 1960, he starred in ''[[High Time (film)|High Time]]'', a collegiate comedy with [[Fabian Forte]] and [[Tuesday Weld]] that predicted the emerging gap between Crosby and the new younger generation of musicians and actors who had begun their careers after World War II. The following year, Crosby and Hope reunited for one more ''Road'' movie, ''[[The Road to Hong Kong]]'', which teamed them up with the much younger [[Joan Collins]] and [[Peter Sellers]]. Collins was used in place of their longtime partner Dorothy Lamour, whom Crosby felt was getting too old for the role, though Hope refused to do the film without her, and she instead made a lengthy and elaborate cameo appearance.<ref name="kl"/> Shortly before his death in 1977, Crosby had planned another ''Road'' film in which he, Hope, and Lamour search for the Fountain of Youth.

Crosby won an [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] for ''[[Going My Way]]'' in 1944 and was nominated for the 1945 sequel, ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]''. He received critical acclaim and his third Academy Award nomination for his performance as an alcoholic entertainer in ''[[The Country Girl (1954 film)|The Country Girl]]''.<ref name="Fisher">{{cite journal |last1=Fisher |first1=James |title=Bing Crosby: Through the Years, Volumes One–Nine (1954–56) |journal=ARSC Journal |date=Spring 2012 |volume=43 |issue=1}}</ref>