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Uploaded by on May 27, 2007

The famed Cocoanut Grove Nightclub in 1934 with Bing Crosby singing "With Every Breath I Take". Also present are Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Leo Carrillo and Ted Fiorito's Orchestra. Filmed in Three Color Technicolor

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  • Was there another early-mid 30s Technicolor short with Bing singing at a mike? A friend of mine insists that the clip shown in a 1978 special on ABC was not this one.

  • @antoniod Yes, he was in the all technicolor musical production "King Of Jazz" and he sings in a microphone with the Rhythm Boys. That clip is also on Youtube.

  • Is this a real clip or staged?

  • MGM filmed this in 1934 at the Cocoanut Grove

    but it is most likely staged and scripted.

  • Well, the Coconut Grove Nightclub was a nightclub in Los Angeles popular for entertainment during the years 1924-1970. The Ambassador Hotel in which it resided was demolished in 2006. This film was made as a star showcase to be shown before the main feature movie. The payment for all stars that appeared went to charity.

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  • Crosby was brilliant, what a voice.

  • I am so glad there are still films like this left..to escape from the world of today.

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  • Fantastic, nice job finding this and putting it up!

  • There's nothing like Bing in full voice.

  • @Jefferson1942 moron

  • It's true that everyone only gets One good talent. Both Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were amazing vocalists but ravishingly ugly. This is a nice vid. Deffinatley staged, as most musicals were. You can tell this is a studio recording. But all of the people are who they are portraying.

  • @perfectjazz78 the school must be haunted

  • @650142 Al Bowlly

  • According to imdb.com, this short, "Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove" (1934) is an extra on the DVD of "The Gay Divorcee" starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The short runs 20 minutes.

  • On a Bing documentary, Anthony Quinn remvarked that all of Hollywood's elite met there, and when Bing was due there, the whole Hollywood community came calling in excitement to hear that "new" and profoundly moving, genuine voice, pure phrasing, etc....I can't remember the others who appeared, but they all say Bing brought the "house down." Just fyi.

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