Road to Rio Road to Rio Road to Rio is a 1947 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. "Road to Rio" was the fifth of the ""Road to …"" series. Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out-of-work musicians, travel the United States trying to find work and stay away from
The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric and his radio program replaced his father’s on CBS for the summer period of thirteen weeks before Gary began his third year at Stanford. Bing Crosby had decided not to continue with a weekly radio series and in November 1954, he returned to the airwaves with a five-nights a week 15-minute program called "The Bing Crosby Show". The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric was a 30-minute variety old-time radio program starring entertainer Bing Crosby. The series ran on CBS radio from 1952-1954. The series was sponsored by the General Electric company and