Favorite Film from Favorite Actor

For our favorite film that stars our favorite actor is either Holiday Inn, Blue Skies, Easter Parade, or White Christmas. Personally, Sophie and I are still torned between Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. It's quite obvious why those two are our favorites but for favorite film, however, is a different story since both Bing and Fred starred in Holiday Inn and Blue Skies. Those two films would be an option but I having seen Blue Skies. I quite think that it's rather bland and lacks an interesting love interest for both Bing and Fred to play off from, but I quite enjoyed watching Fred teach Bing how to dance during the A Couple of Song And Dance Men sequence. On the flip side, there's Holiday Inn which is a great holiday film and sparked a hit song for both Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby. The song was called White Christmas, making Bing Crosby a household name and immortalized his voice in people's homes every Christmas. ~LS

I agree with Liana but I do believe that Bing Crosby is being overshadowed by White Christmas and other Christmas songs. He was done the Road to film series way before he had started working on Holiday Inn with Fred Astaire. And I really think that anyone of their film is my favorite of theirs, especially Blue Skies because the film really highlights what they can do as dramatic and comedic actors, in general. -SL

Four films that we'd pick as the TCM Guest Programmers

Swing Time (1933) - Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers.

I Love Melvin (1953) - Donald O'Connor,  Debbie Reynolds.

Holiday Inn (1942) - Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) - Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra.

The first film that we would pick is Swing Time. Swing Time is about a showman who finds himself romancing a dance instructor. The film has the most romantic  scoring by Jerome Kern, and we thought that it's one of Jerome's best work and beautifully sang by Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and the rest of the cast. The second film that we would go for is I Love Melvin because it's one of those films that everyone needs to watch. It's funny. It's romantic. It has singing and dancing. And importantly, it has Cosmo Brown and Kathy Selden (Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds) in love with each other. The next one on our list will be Holiday Inn starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby. It is the second film of Fred's on our list and one of my favorite films to watch in the summertime. Though, both of us has seen the colorized version of the film since it has the best quality. We'd still appreciate seeing the black and white version. The last film that we would show is Take Me Out To The Ballgame starting Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Esther Williams because of the running gag between Kelly and Williams, which is they courtship between the pair. Kelly is first introduced to her as a lady, but he called her a fathead then further into the story, he starts to call her, baby doll, which she repeats to him.