1930'S BING CROSBY ORIGINAL AQUATONED PORTRAIT 5" X 7" MOVIE STAR PHOTO...U.S.A

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MOVIE STAR
CARDS
1930'S BING CROSBY
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE MOVIE STAR
AQUATONED CARD---U.S.A.
This is a
1930'S BING CROSBY
.
Harry Lillis
"
Bing
"
Crosby Jr.
(May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide.
[4]
He was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1926 to 1977. He made over 70 feature films and recorded more than 1,600 songs.
His early career coincided with recording innovations that allowed him to develop an intimate singing style that influenced many male singers who followed, such as
Perry Como
,
[5]
Frank Sinatra
,
Dean Martin
,
Dick Haymes
,
Elvis Presley
,
[6]
and
John Lennon
.
Yank
magazine said that he was "the person who had done the most for the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of
Jackie Robinson
and
Pope Pius XII
. In 1948,
Music Digest
estimated that his recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.
[8]
Crosby won the
Academy Award for Best Actor
for his performance in
Going My Way
(1944) and was nominated for its sequel,
The Bells of St. Mary's
(1945), opposite
Ingrid Bergman
, becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first
Grammy Global Achievement Award
. He is one of 33 people to have three stars on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame
, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, and audio recording. He was also known for his collaborations with his friend
Bob Hope
, starring in the
Road to...
films from 1940 to 1962.
Crosby influenced the development of the post World War II
recording industry
. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality
reel-to-reel tape recorder
brought to the United States by
John T. Mullin
, he invested ,000 in the California electronics company
Ampex
to build copies. He then persuaded ABC to allow him to tape his shows. He became the first performer to prerecord their radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto
magnetic tape
.
Through the medium of audio recording, he constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal,
time shifting
) used in motion picture production, a practice that became industry standard. In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, he helped finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and co-owned the
Pittsburgh Pirates
baseball team, during which time the team won two
World Series
(1960 and 1971).
The card was printed in the U.S.A. Approx. size is 5” X 7” inches. Aquatoned was printed in the U.S.A.
CONDITION: EX+
. (some fading, ...line on back)
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