Road to Bali [1952]

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• In the movie, Bing Crosby makes reference to the Pittsburgh Pirates, which he was a minority owner of, and Bob Hope makes reference to the Cleveland Indians, which he was a minority owner of.
• Celebrity/pop cultural references: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Humphrey Bogart, ^[?] Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan, and the Academy Awards.
• Bob Hope makes an obscure joke about the Chicago musicians union. He shows Crosby his snake-charmer instrument and says, "Hey, I've been playing this flute all night. Have to clear it with Petrillo." Petrillo was ^[?] James Petrillo, the heavy-handed president of the Chicago Musician's Union.
• Although it was originally released by Paramount, it was never copyrighted which is why this title is now in the public domain.
• The sixth of the seven Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour "Road" films.
• This was the only "Road" picture of the seven to be photographed in Technicolor. Ten years later, the British-made Hong Kong finale would revert to black and white.
• In her 1980 autobiography, My Side of the Road, (co-written with ^[?] Dick McInnes), Dorothy Lamour relates how disappointed she was at not being asked to sing on the Decca album which re-created the film score. In Miss Lamour's place, the label recruited an artist under contract, Peggy Lee, to croon the sultry {Moonflowers} and then go upbeat with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope and on {The Merry-Go-Runaround} (both songs having music by ^[?] Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by ^[?] Johnny Burke).