Say One for Me
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| Directed by | Frank Tashlin |
| Produced by | Frank Tashlin |
| Written by | Robert O'Brien |
| Starring |
Bing Crosby Debbie Reynolds Robert Wagner |
| Music by |
Alexander Courage Earle Hagen Leigh Harline Arthur Morton Lionel Newman |
| Cinematography | Leo Tover |
| Edited by | Hugh S. Fowler |
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| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
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Release date
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October 11, 1959 |
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Running time
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120 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,990,000 |
| Box office | $3.9 million (est. US/ Canada rentals) |
Say One For Me is a 1959 musical film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds.Say One for Me was listed in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. Actress Stella Stevens made her film debut in Say One for Me and received the Golden Globe Award in 1960 for New Star of the Year-Actress for this film.
In the middle of New York's theater district sits Father Conroy's parish, where entertainers often attend his services. His parishioners include Holly LeMaise, whose dad Harry was an old vaudevillian. Holly takes a job as a showgirl in a nightclub to pay the medical bills when her father falls ill. The featured entertainer at the club is Tony Vincent, a playboy whose romantic advances Holly wards off. But soon she develops feelings for him.
Father Conroy befriends the former songwriter Phil Stanley, whose alcoholism and hard times have left him playing piano in Tony's act. The priest annoys Tony by seemingly interfering with Holly's personal life and now Phil's as well. Tony lands a job at a Miami hotel and tries to manipulate Holly into going along.
As a charity event, Father Conroy organizes a big show that will be on nationwide TV. Tony, having lost the Miami job, desperately wants to perform on it. To prove his true intent to Holly, the priest offers to book Tony on television provided he tells Holly their relationship is over. Holly is shocked when he accepts.
When it's his turn to sing, Tony's guilty conscience gives him a change of heart. He gives up his time on the TV show to Phil, who has written a new song. Father Conroy is pleased, and soon finds himself officiating at Holly's and Tony's wedding.
Filmed in CinemaScope between December 1958 and February 1959, the film had several "premiere" performances in June 1959. On June 18, 1959, Say One for Me had its premiere at Buffalo, New York. The event formed part of fund raising activities for Buffalo Boy’s Town run by Father Kelliher. There was also a gala benefit premier at the Pantages Theatre (Hollywood) on Hollywood Boulevard on the same day with the proceeds going to the Daniel Freeman Hospital, Inglewood and the Jesuit Scholasticata.
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