Bing Crosby the 1930s, Crosby starred with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour in seven "Road to" musical comedies between 1940 and 1962, cementing Crosby and Hope as an on-and-off duo, despite never officially 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
Road to ... "Road to..." movie was planned, titled "Road to the Fountain of Youth"; however, Crosby died that year of a heart attack. In 1947, Astor Pictures released a compilation film of several of Crosby's Educational Pictures short subjects called "The Road to Hollywood" to evoke the series. The United States Navy also commissioned Hope and Crosby to produce the 1945 short film "Road to Home". In Sweden, the first film was given the title "Två glada sjömän går iland" ("Two Jolly Sailors Go Ashore"), which led to the subsequent films in the series all being given a title beginning with "Två