Going My Way

Going My Way
Theatrical release poster (with executive producer B. G. DeSylva given prominent credit)
Directed byLeo McCarey
Screenplay by
Story byLeo McCarey
Produced byLeo McCarey
Starring
CinematographyLionel Lindon
Edited byLeRoy Stone
Music byRobert Emmett Dolan
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
Running time
126 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$6.5 million (US/Canada rentals)[1]

Going My Way is a 1944 American musical comedy drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald. Written by Frank Butler and Frank Cavett, based on a story by McCarey, the film is about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran. Crosby sings five songs[2] with other songs performed onscreen by Metropolitan Opera's star mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens and the Robert Mitchell Boys Choir. Going My Way was the highest-grossing picture of 1944, and was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture.[3] Its success helped to make movie exhibitors choose Crosby as the biggest box-office draw of the year,[4][5] a record he would hold for the remainder of the 1940s. After World War II, Crosby and McCarey presented a copy of the film to Pope Pius XII at the Vatican. Going My Way was followed the next year by a sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's.

  1. ^ ""All-Time Top-Grossers", Variety 18 January 1950 p 18". 1950.
  2. ^ Going My Way
  3. ^ "Awards for Going My Way". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on April 13, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
  4. ^ "Bing Crosby Overview". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on December 18, 2023. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  5. ^ Gilliland, John (1994). Pop Chronicles the 40s: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40s (audiobook). ISBN 978-1-55935-147-8. OCLC 31611854. Tape 1, side B.