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Music had to be silenced in a couple of places because of a copyright claim. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in Blackface in The Road to Singapore (1940). In March of 1940, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby made their first picture together, “Road to Singapore” and it included a Blackface sequence as Hope and Crosby attempted to masquerade as natives. Dorothy Lamour also appears, but not in Blackface. It was the first of their famous “Road” pictures, and one of 1940’s top grossing films.
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