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a lot of 3 RE-STRIKE Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra 11x14 stills. Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby in Tacoma, Washington in 1903, in a large working class family. He got the nickname "Bing" when he was 10. He went to college, intending to become a lawyer, but he joined a local band as a drummer, and he quit school in his last year. In 1926, he was spotted by Paul Whiteman, and was hired, along with his partner, Al Rinker. Whiteman added Harry Barris, and named them the Rhythm Boys, and they were a big hit. Crosby was the star of the act, and in 1931 he split from the group, and went solo. He was the number one recording star of the 1930s, and his distinctive style of singing was dubbed "crooning". He had done some singing in movies with the Rhythm Boys at the start of the 1930s, but he soon starting playing dramatic roles in musicals, and was a natural, likeable performer, and was very successful in movies in the 1930s. In 1940 he teamed with Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope for the first of the very successful "Road" movies, Road to Singapore. When the U.S. entered WWII. he added to his huge popularity by doing much entertaining of the troops. In 1942, he sang White Christmas on his radio show and used it in his movie, Holiday Inn (it would be re-used in the partial re-make of Holiday Inn, White Christmas, in 1954). In 1944 he made his greatest movie, Going My Way. In 1954, he also starred in The Country Girl, and won the Best Actor Oscar. In 1956 he was in High Society, the musical re-make of The Philadelphia Story. Bing Crosby was among the very best selling singers of all time, and also was among the absolute biggest box office draws at the movies! There is no other singer who had as much success as he did in the movies, or vice versa! AND Frank Sinatra was a legendary singer of the 1940s, who became a major movie star that same decade, and continued singing and acting for many years. Some of his movies include: many MGM musicals (some with Gene Kelly), as well as dramatic roles like The Man with the Golden Arm, The Manchurian Candidate, and From Here to Eternity. He, along with his best friends, were known as The Rat Pack, and he was the inspiration for the "Johnny Fontaine" character in the Godfather movies! Note that these stills were printed from the original plates, likely in the 1970s by dealers, and are high quality, but are NOT originals from the 1940s. Be sure not to bid on these thinking they are from the 1940s or studio issued, as they are NOT!

Note that this is one of fifteen bulk lots of 11x14 re-strike photos we are currently offering. They were created by a Hollywood memorabilia shop, either in the late 1960s or in the 1970s, and as described above, they were almost certainly printed from the original negatives, which came into the hands of dealers at that time. Many re-strikes have been unknowingly (or knowingly) sold as originals from the 1930s or 1940s, but these are definitely not (but they DO look great on your wall, and 99% of people would not know they were not an original).

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