---
title: 'Going My Way (1944)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Leo McCarey'
released: '1944-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 130
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Music'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/going-my-way-1944'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036872/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Going My Way (1944)

1944 · 130 min · Drama, Music, Comedy, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Going My Way is a 1944 American musical comedy drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald. Written by Frank Butler and Frank Cavett, based on a story by McCarey, the film is about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran. Crosby sings five songs with other songs performed onscreen by Metropolitan Opera's star mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens and the Robert Mitchell Boys Choir. Going My Way was the highest-grossing picture of 1944, and was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture. Its success helped to make movie exhibitors choose Crosby as the biggest box-office draw of the year, a record he would hold for the remainder of the 1940s. After World War II, Crosby and McCarey presented a copy of the film to Pope Pius XII at the Vatican. Going My Way was followed the next year by a sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Leo McCarey](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-mccarey)
- **Producer:** [Leo McCarey](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-mccarey)
- **Screenplay:** [Frank Butler](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-butler), [Frank Cavett](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-cavett)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Robert E. Dolan](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-e-dolan)
- **Director of Photography:** [Lionel Lindon](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-lindon)
- **Editor:** [LeRoy Stone](https://cinepixo.com/people/leroy-stone)

## Cast

- [Anita Sharp-Bolster](https://cinepixo.com/people/anita-sharp-bolster)
- [Gibson Gowland](https://cinepixo.com/people/gibson-gowland)
- [Franklyn Farnum](https://cinepixo.com/people/franklyn-farnum)
- [Porter Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/porter-hall)
- [Gene Lockhart](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-lockhart)
- [Bing Crosby](https://cinepixo.com/people/bing-crosby)
- [James Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-brown)
- [Jean Heather](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-heather)
- [Barry Fitzgerald](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-fitzgerald)
- [William Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-smith)
- [Fortunio Bonanova](https://cinepixo.com/people/fortunio-bonanova)
- [Risë Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/rise-stevens)
- [William "Bill" Henry](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-bill-henry)
- [Frank McHugh](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-mchugh)
- [Eily Malyon](https://cinepixo.com/people/eily-malyon)

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