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 – Chesterfield Show to use their advertising budget on the new medium. The show did not reach the top 20 Nielsen ratings and the most highly rated radio show for the season was the "Amos ‘n’ Andy" program with 17.0. The series ended on June 25, 1952. Sponsorship for Crosby moved from Chesterfield to General Electric and in the fall of 1952, "The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric" premiered. The Bing Crosby – Chesterfield Show The Bing Crosby Show for Chesterfield was a 30-minute musical variety old-time radio program starring entertainer Bing Crosby. The series ran on CBS Radio from 1949–1952. The