Riding High (1950 film)
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| Directed by | Frank Capra |
| Produced by | Frank Capra |
| Written by | Mark Hellinger (story) Robert Riskin |
| Starring | Bing Crosby Coleen Gray |
| Editing by | William Hornbeck |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1950 |
| Running time | 112 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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Riding High (1950) is a black and white musical racetrack film featuring Bing Crosby and directed by Frank Capra in which the songs were actually sung as the movie was being filmed instead of the customary lip-syncing to previous recordings. The movie is a remake of an earlier Capra film called Broadway Bill (1934). Some of the scenes in both Broadway Bill and Riding High were filmed at the Tanforan racetrack in San Bruno, California; the track burned to the ground in July 1964, just before it was to be demolished. The film featured an unbilled cameo appearance by Oliver Hardy as a gambler at the racetrack. While the film is generally a light musical comedy, it has an unexpected tragic turn in its story.[1]
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[edit] Cast
This is the complete cast listing.[2]
- Bing Crosby as Dan Brooks
- Charles Bickford as J.L. Higgins
- William Demarest as Happy
- James Gleason as Racing Secretary
- Clarence Muse as Whitey
- Harry Davenport as Johnson
- Paul Harvey as Whitehall
- Gene Lockhart as J.P. Chase
- Rand Brooks as Henry Early
- Marjorie Lord as Mary Winslow
- Joe Frisco as Himself
- Charles Lane as Erickson
- Stanley Andrews as Veterinarian
- Clara Blandick as Mrs. Peterson, from Broadway Bill (1934))
- Candy Candido as Musician
- Edgar Dearing as Deputy
- Tom Fadden as Whitehall's trainer
- Byron Foulger as Maitre d'
- Oliver Hardy as Horse player
- Richard Kipling as Jailer
- Jim Nolan as Deputy
- Victor Romito as Barber
- Coleen Gray as Alice Higgins
- Frances Gifford as Margaret Higgins
- Raymond Walburn as Prof. Pettigrew
- Ward Bond as Lee
- Percy Kilbride as Pop Jones
- Margaret Hamilton as Edna
- Douglass Dumbrille as Eddie Howard
- Marjorie Hoshelle as Mathilda Early
- Willard Waterman as Arthur Winslow
- Irving Bacon as Hamburger Man
- Frankie Darro as Jockey Williams
- Dub Taylor as Joe
- Max Baer as Bertie
- M.A. Bogue as Musician
- Roger Davis as Butler
- Ann Doran as Nurse
- Margaret Field as Maid
- Joe Gray as Johnny
- Percy Helton as Pawnbroker
- Dorothy Neumann as Secretary
- Garry Owen as Harry
[edit] Crew
The crew for the film is listed below.[3]
- Frank Capra - Director
- Robert Riskin - Writer
- Jack Rose - Writer (Additional dialogue)
- William Hornbeck - Editor
- Hans Dreier - Art Director
- Mark Hellinger - Writer (Story Broadway Bill)
- Melville Shavelson - Writer (Additional dialogue)
- Frank Capra - Producer
- Edith Head - Costume Designer
- Walter H. Tyler - Art Director
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