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The Lemon Drop Kid: Directed by Sidney Lanfield, Frank Tashlin. With Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell. A New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive.
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- Comedy, Crime, Music
- Sidney Lanfield, Frank Tashlin
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]
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]
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Dec 14, 2017 · Silver Bells - Bob Hope & Marilyn Maxwell (1951) From the motion picture, THE LEMON DROP KID, Paramount Pictures, 1951.
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- Steve Krampitz
Ray Livingston and Jay Evans' song "Silver Bells" was first performed in The Lemon Drop Kid and quickly became a Christmas standard. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope's frequent co-star, made the first recording of the song.
- Sidney Lanfield, Len Hendry, Edward Salven
- Bob Hope
“Silver Bells” has been a holiday hit for everyone from Bing Crosby to Martina McBride, but the popular standard was penned for The Lemon Drop Kid, a Bob Hope comedy released in the spring of 1951.
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The song "Silver Bells," sung by Hope and Maxwell, was introduced in this film. The Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope), a New York City swindler, is illegally touting horses at a Florida racetrack. The Kid touts across a beautiful woman intending to bet $2,000 on a horse named Iron Bar.
