high and high be one of rodgers and hart less broadway musical it only have a run of 84 performance on broadway in 1940. yet it yield one of their big hit it never enter my mind . nevertheless except for one minor song and so disgustingly rich and the entire broadway score be scrap when rko buy the film right . instead a whole new score by jimmy mchugh and harold adamson be write and mostly to accommodate one francis albert sinatra who be make his feature film debut . sinatra who have do some vocal cameo in previous film and take a leaf from the page of his sing rival bing crosby . when bing do his feature film debut in the big broadcast and he play bing crosby . frank sinatra take on the role of frank sinatra and i can not think of anyone who could have do a good job . the chairman of the board be bill third here behind star jack haley and michele morgan . he the butler and she the scullery maid to leon errol . in fact errol be a millionaire who hasn not pay his help for seven month . mainly because he about to go belly up into chapter 11 or so he inform the staff . errol a delightful old soul to work for and none of the staff want to lose a good thing . they pool their resource and get michele morgan to impersonate errol daughter who over in switzerland with her mother . the idea be to snag a rich bankroll in the hope rescue the family fortune . only michele start look at another . it a slight plot and certainly no bad than a whole lot of musical and but rko invest this film with a good cast of player . barbara hale and elizabeth risdon play another débutante and her mother who suspect something not right and victor borge be a fortune seek no account and dooley wilson and paul hartman and grace hartman and marcy mcguire and mel torme and mary wickes and play others of the errol household staff . not a bad bunch at all . sinatra sing three good ballad all of them have some kind of commercial success and the music stop and a lovely way to spend an evening and and i couldn not sleep a wink last night . the last one be nominate for an oscar for best song and but lose to alice faye you will never know . 1943 be the year of the musician union strike against the recording industry . to get their material out and frank sinatra record the song from high and high with an acapella chorus for columbia . bing crosby record song from his film dixie in the same manner for decca . both of them be denounce by the president of the union and james c. petrillo a strikebreaker and both do not cross the picket line again . the strike wasn not settle completely until 1944 although decca break rank earlier from the other record company and settle early than columbia and rca victor and the others . the strike provide some anxious moment for sinatra . he have just leave the tommy dorsey orchestra when the strike be call . it close off a needed venue for his artistry when he wasn not sure whether leave dorsey would prove to be a right career move . fortunately high and high be receive well a legend be launch .