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The Lemon Drop Kid is a 1951 American comedy film based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon, starring Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell. Although Sidney Lanfield is credited as the director, Frank Tashlin reportedly was hired, uncredited, to finish the film. [ 2 ]
"Silver Bells" is a Christmas song composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. It debuted in the motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), where it was started by William Frawley , [ 1 ] then sung in the generally known version immediately thereafter by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell . [ 1 ]
The popular Christmas song "Silver Bells" made its debut in The Lemon Drop Kid, sung by Maxwell and Hope. [13] Maxwell appeared twice as a singer in the second season (1955–1956) of The Jimmy Durante Show. [citation needed] She sang at the Latin Quarter in New York and other top nightclubs of the time. [7]
Hope's Christmas specials were popular favorites and often featured a performance of "Silver Bells"—from his 1951 film The Lemon Drop Kid—done as a duet with an often much younger female guest star such as Barbara Mandrell, Olivia Newton-John, Barbara Eden, and Brooke Shields, [49] or with his wife Dolores, a former singer with whom he ...
They also wrote the Christmas song "Silver Bells" in 1951, for the film The Lemon Drop Kid, initially calling it "Tinkle Bells" but changed it to "Silver" because of a common connotation of "tinkle", as well as "Never Let Me Go" for the 1956 film The Scarlet Hour. Johnny Mathis sang Livingston's song "All The Time", among others.
The Lemon Drop Kid: Sidney Lanfield: Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, William Frawley: Comedy: Paramount. Remake of 1934 film; Introduced the song "Silver Bells" Let's Go Navy! William Beaudine: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Allen Jenkins: Comedy: Monogram: Let's Make It Legal: Richard Sale: Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Marilyn Monroe ...
Week 3: Missed pass interference on Kyle Pitts. The Chiefs got away with one late in a win at the Atlanta Falcons. Safety Bryan Cook clearly committed a pass inference penalty on Pitts in the end ...
The Lemon Drop Kid (1934) – Starring Lee Tracy, remade in 1951 with Bob Hope (and I Love Lucy co-star William Frawley appearing in both adaptations); the latter version introduced the Christmas song "Silver Bells". Princess O'Hara (1935) – Starring Jean Parker, remade in 1943 as It Ain't Hay with Abbott and Costello and Patsy O'Connor