East Side Of Heaven

Crosby stepped out of his Paramount contract as a loan-out to Universal and made an interesting deal on this picture; he put up his services and some of his own money to get a fifty-fifty split with Universal on the profits. Whether that had something to do with his terrific performance in the lead, much better than in some of the Paramounters of the period, will never be known. In this movie he does the same kind of thing he did in 1938's PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, namely getting stuck with the responsibility of taking care of a child. Crosby and Blondell are engaged, but wedding plans must be shunted aside when Bing, a singing cab driver, has a baby given to him while ...