Theater of the Mind
Bing Crosby
Cast, Host
Born May 2, 1903.
317 episodes in 24 shows · 1937–1956
Radio Hall of Fame inductee.
Bing Crosby made his nationwide solo radio debut in 1931 with 15 Minutes with Bing Crosby, and later hosted NBC's Kraft Music Hall for about ten years. He was the first performer to prerecord his radio shows on magnetic tape, taping Philco Radio Time from 1947, and he appeared on Armed Forces Radio during and after World War II. On screen, he won an Academy Award for Going My Way.
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The Bing Crosby Show112 · Cast
1949
- With Judy Garland (1949)
- With Peggy Lee and Frank Fay (October 1949)
- With Lum & Abner (Chester Lauck & Norris Goff)
- With Bob Hope (1949)
- With Ella Fitzgerald and The Mills Brothers
- With Bob Crosby and Cathy Crosby
- With Peggy Lee and Frank Fay (November 1949)
- With Al Jolson (1949)
1950
- With Al Jolson (January 1950)
- With Groucho Marx and Peggy Lee
- With Gary Crosby and Barbara Whiting
- With Bob Hope (1950)
- With Fred Allen and Peggy Lee
- With Al Jolson (February 1950)
- With The Andrews Sisters and Firehouse Five Plus Two (February 1950)
- With Bob Crosby, Loulie Jean Norman and Gloria Wood
- With Gary Cooper and Gary Crosby
- With Dennis Crosby and Phillip Crosby
- With William Boyd and Ethel Merman
- With The Andrews Sisters and Firehouse Five Plus Two (March 1950)
- With Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey
- With Carole Richards and Lindsay Crosby
- With Beatrice Lillie
- With Ella Fitzgerald and Al Jolson
- With Mary Martin
- With Fred Allen
- With Bob Hope, Perry Como, Arthur Godfrey, Gary, Dennis and Philip & Lindsay Crosby
- With Dick Powell
- With Toni Arden, Bob Crosby, Loulie Jean Norman and Danny Stewart
- With Paul Douglas
- With Ella Fitzgerald, Firehouse Five Plus Two and Ward Kimball
- With Judy Garland (1950)
- With Peggy Lee and William Boyd
- With Dixie Lee Crosby, Gary, Dennis and Phillip & Lindsay Crosby
- With Dinah Shore, Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden
1951
- With Fred Astaire, Loulie Jean Norman and Danny Stewart
- With Bob Hope and Bob Crosby
- With Louis Armstrong, Toni Arden, Jack Teagarden and Joe Venuti
- With Toni Arden and James Stewart
- With Marilyn Maxwell, Louis Armstrong and Lindsay Crosby
- With Gary Crosby (1951)
1952
- With Fred Astaire
- With Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
- With Jane Wyman, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires, Red Nichols and Loulie Jean Norman
- With Jane Wyman, Joe Venuti, The Bell Sisters, Helen O'Connell, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Red Nichols
- With James Stewart, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires, Buddy Cole and Loulie Jean Norman
- With Dinah Shore, Joe Venuti and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires (1952)
- With Dinah Shore, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Buddy Cole
- With Connie Boswell, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Red Nichols
- With Rosemary Clooney, Christian Fourcade and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires
- With Rosemary Clooney, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Buddy Cole
- With Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Red Nichols
- With Gary Crosby and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires
1953
- With Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Venuti and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires
- With Rosemary Clooney, Joe Venuti and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires (January 1953)
- With Bob Hope, Rosemary Clooney, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Buddy Cole
- With Rosemary Clooney, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Buddy Cole Trio
- With Kay Starr, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Buddy Cole Trio (January 1953)
- With Kay Starr, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Buddy Cole Trio (February 1953)
- With Jack Benny, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Buddy Cole
- With Joanne Gilbert, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Perry Botkin
- With Peggy Lee, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Phil Shukin
- With Jimmy Boyd, Joe Venuti and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires (March 1953)
- With James Stewart, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Veola Vonn
- With Dinah Shore, Joe Venuti and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires (1953)
- With Rosemary Clooney, Joe Venuti and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires (March 1953)
- With Rosemary Clooney, Joe Venuti and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires (April 2, 1953)
- With Rosemary Clooney, Joe Venuti and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires (April 9, 1953)
- With George Kainapau & His Island Serenaders, Joe Venuti and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires
- With Rosemary Clooney, Joe Venuti and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires (April 23, 1953)
- With The Bell Sisters, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires and Buddy Cole
- With George Kainapau & His Island Serenaders, Joe Venuti, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires, Red Nichols, Ziggy Elman and Bobby Guy
- With Jimmy Boyd, Joe Venuti and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires (May 1953)
- With Lindsay Crosby, Joe Venuti and Buddy Cole (May 21, 1953)
- With Lindsay Crosby, Joe Venuti and Buddy Cole (May 28, 1953)
- With Lindsay Crosby, Joe Venuti and Buddy Cole (June 1953)
- With Lindsay Crosby, Joe Venuti and Perry Botkin
- With Lindsay Crosby and Joe Venuti (June 1953)
- With Lindsay Crosby and Joe Venuti (July 1953)
- With Gary Crosby (1953)
- With Rosemary Clooney and Buddy Cole
- With Rosemary Clooney and Ziggy Elman
- With Jane Morgan and Dixieland Ensemble
- With Gary Crosby and Dixieland Ensemble
- With Gary Crosby, Dixieland Ensemble, Buddy Cole and Perry Botkin
- With Peggy Lee
- With Rosemary Clooney and Marie Green
- With Peggy Lee and Dixieland Ensemble
- With Rosemary Clooney (1953)
- With Ella Fitzgerald (December 13, 1953)
- With Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires
- With Ella Fitzgerald (December 27, 1953)
1954
- With Connie Russell
- With Gary Crosby (1954)
- With Helen O'Connell
- With Gary Crosby and Bobby Guy
- With Connie Russell and Ziggy Elman
- With Ella Fitzgerald (February 7, 1954)
- With Ella Fitzgerald (February 14, 1954)
- With The Four Aces (February 21, 1954)
- With The Four Aces (February 28, 1954)
- With Jana Mason
- With Peggy King
- With Frank Sinatra (March 21, 1954)
- With Frank Sinatra (March 28, 1954)
- With Gary Crosby, Lindsay Crosby and Buddy Cole (April 4, 1954)
- With Gary Crosby, Lindsay Crosby and Buddy Cole (April 11, 1954)
- With Rosemary Clooney (April 1954)
- With Toni Arden and Buddy Cole
- With Toni Arden
- With Rosemary Clooney (May 1954)
- With Gary Crosby, Lindsay Crosby and Buddy Cole (May 1954)
Kraft Music Hall91 · Cast
1937
1938
1941
- Lionel Barrymore, Eddie Bracken
- Pat O'Brien, Josephine Tuminia
- Duke Ellington, Frank McHugh, James Hilton
- William Boyd, Jerry Lester
- Ethel Waters
- Bert Lahr, Gail Patrick
1942
- Sam Snead, Madeleine Carroll
- Pat O'Brien, Wingy Manone
- Walter Huston, Claude Thornhill
- Spike Jones, Ronald Reagan, Sabu
- Capt. Floyd J. Sweet
- Susan Hayward, Larry Adler, Gene Tunney
- Frank McHugh, Ruth Hussey
- John Garfield
- Cass Daley, Richard Haydn
- Ginny Simms, Edgar Buchanan
- Jack Carson, Fay Bainter
1943
- Cass Daley, Janet Blair
- Ginny Simms, Frank McHugh
- Victor Borge
- Lucille Ball (April 1943)
- Rags Ragland
- Phil Silvers (September 1943)
- Lucille Ball (October 1943)
- Phil Silvers (December 1943)
- Cass Daley (1943)
1944
- William Frawley, Nan Wynn
- George Murphy, Jane Frazee
- Dale Evans
- Donald O'Connor
- Cass Daley (1944)
- Phil Silvers (1944)
- There'll Be A Hot Time In The Town Of Berlin
- George Murphy (March 9, 1944)
- George Murphy (March 30, 1944)
- Kraft Choral Club (April 1944)
- Bob Hope (April 1944)
- Dave Shelley
- Sonny Tufts (April 1944)
- Gene Kelly
- Keenan Wynn (May 1944)
- Jack Carson, Eddie Marr
- Richard Haydn
- Katina Paxinou
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Bob Hope (June 1944)
- George Murphy (June 1944)
- Roy Rogers
- Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey
- Keenan Wynn (July 1944)
- Sonny Tufts (July 20, 1944)
- Sonny Tufts (July 27, 1944)
- Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
- Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?
- Frank Sinatra
- Rise Stevens
- Spike Jones (1944)
- Diana Lynn
- Jerry Colonna
- Kraft Choral Club (December 1944)
- Les Paul Trio, Beatrice Kay
1945
- Johnny Mercer
- Spike Jones (1945)
- Duke Ellington
- The Andrews Sisters (January 1945)
- Evelina
- Fred Lowery
- Ella Logan, Eddie Heywood
- Sandra Benkova
- Joe Venuti, Silvino de Solas
- Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five
- Frankie Carle
- Kraft Choral Club (1945)
- King Cole Trio, Florence Alba
- Yehudi Menuhin
- King Cole Trio
- Cass Daley (1945)
- Florence Alba, Eddie Heywood
- Carmen Cavallaro
1946
- Aren't You Glad You're You
- Les Paul
- Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
- Martha Tilton, Jerry Colonna
- Georgia Gibbs
- Les Paul Trio, Marilyn Maxwell
- Trudy Erwin, Kraft Choral Club
- Bob Hope, Peggy Lee, Joe Frisco
1947
1948
Command Performance19 · Cast, Host
- Don Ameche
- Christmas Special, 1942
- Program 52: Bing Crosby, Richard Crooks, Pat O'Malley
- Program 60: Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Bob Burns, Music Maids
- Program 71: Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Fanny Brice, Hanley Stafford
- Program 75: Bing Crosby, Betty Grable, Harry James
- Program 81: Judy Garland, Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby
- Program 86: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby
- Program 97: Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby, Charioteers
- Program 104: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra
- Program 118: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton
- Program 123: Connie Haines, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra
- Program 125: Jack Benny, Harpo Marx, Bing Crosby
- Program 129: Bing Crosby, Judy Garland
- Program 154: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Lauren Bacall
- Program 160: Gloria DeHaven, Carmen Miranda, Bing Crosby
- Program 162: Dick Tracy in B Flat
- Program 169: Bing Crosby, Lionel Barrymore, Marilyn Maxwell
- Program 182: Bing Crosby, G.I. Jill, Ella Mae Morse
Screen Directors Playhouse16 · Cast
The Big Show10 · Cast
The Bob Hope Show9 · Cast
- From the Santa Ana Classification Center (Guest: Bing Crosby)
- Guests: Herbert Marshall and Bing Crosby
- Guests: Bob Crosby and Carol Richards
- Guests: Bing Crosby, Doris Day and General Omar Bradley
- Guest: Bing Crosby (1950)
- From Long Beach Naval Air Station
- Christmas Show from Long Beach (1951)
- From Palm Springs (Guests: Bing Crosby and Charles Farrell)
- From Fort Ord (Guests: Terry Moore and Bing Crosby)
The Man Called X8 · Cast
The Screen Guild Theater8 · Cast
Family Theater6 · Cast, Host
Lux Radio Theatre6 · Cast
Mail Call6 · Cast, Host
Philco Radio Time5 · Cast
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons4 · Cast
The Jack Benny Program3 · Cast
The Fred Allen Show2 · Cast
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet1 · Cast
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show1 · Cast
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