Monday, August 6, 2018

Say One for Me (1959), 6-

Father Conroy (Crosby) has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. When one of his parishioners gets too sick to work, his daughter Holly (Reynolds) finds a job working ... 
2h | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 18 June 1959 | Color, WS
Director: Frank Tashlin
Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Bing Crosby, Robert Wagner

Watched online: part 1, part 2; 

8 songs in the Soundtracks: 2 by BC, 1 BC&DR, 3 DR&RW, 1 by Judy Harriet, 1 no performer.

Another priest role for BC, but not terribly touching. I didn't watch The Bells of St. Mary's ('45, not a music/al), but Going My Way ('44) had Barry Fitzgerald to soften us up, no equivalent here. The parish is a showbiz work/live district in NYC, and the people we're following work in a dive nightclub.

RW sings a little, and dances a lot less; unfortunately they have him do both here. His speaking voice is pleasant but flat (that's not news). He plays a heel, and lacks charm until someone puts a baby in his arms, when his competence counters the heel behavior a little.

I really didn't care what happened to these people, and can only tell you RW & DR marry at the end, but the poster tips that. Don't know if BC progressed somehow.

Bing Crosby Prod., distr. Fox, dir. Tashlin; 6-
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