Does that mean that Dixie Lee Crosby eventually recovered from her alcoholism?
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Dixie Lee Crosby died just shy of her 41st birthday, still an alcoholic. Read "Going My Own Way" by Gary Crosby, much disputed account of Bing, but less disputed about Dixie.
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This movie was more inspired by Dixie Lee rather than a faithful documentation. I wonder if Bing Crosby was as much of a self absorbed jerk as Ken Conway?
Although the husband wasn't 100% to blame for his wife's alcoholism, definitely didn't help the situation.
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From everything I've heard, Bing Crosby was most certainly a jerk of the first order!
shareEvery Time I hear Bing Crosby sing White Christmas I think it is the most beautuful song ever of all time. Having said that this movie was allegedly based on the life of Dixie and Bing Crosby. Bing Crosby's 4 older son's were so embittered about him and 2 in fact committed suicide such was their pain. Crosby was a cad, and I read in a book about him that he romanced Grace Kelly behind doors in Alan Ladd's home to keep the press at bay during Dixie's final months.
Ms Hayward was brilliant in this film and when she won the Oscar years later she did not thank co stars or Directors or her husband for that matter, only Walter Wanger whose guidance in this film and others most notably I Want To Live a great movie star. It is ages ago but if I had a vote I would have voted for Susan Hayward not Loretta Young as Best Actress. ( Even Loretta voted for Susan so Loretta said!)
Loretta Young was no slouch in The Farmer's Daughter though and had built up a huge filmography by 1948.
shareTheir affair says a lot about Grace as well. I recall Bing's two son's suicides in the 90's. Very sad. I also recall as a small child his holiday specials to a minor extent. I was only 8 or 9 when he passed.I always liked the films in which he played a priest.
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