Directed
by: James Algar & Clyde Geronimi
Written by: Washington Irvin, Homer Brightman
& Winston Hibler
Music by: Frank Churchill & Oliver
Wallace
Released on: October 5, 1949
Running Time: 49 minutes
Budget: $
Box-Office: $ in the U.S., $ million worldwide
Narrator... Bing Crosby
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Bing
Crosby was the fourth of seven children of a Tacoma, Washington, brewery
bookkeeper Harry Lowe Crosby and Kate Harrigan Crosby. He studied law at
Gonzaga University in Spokane but was more interested in playing the drums
and singing with a local band. Bing and the band's piano player, Al Rinker,
left Spokane for Los Angeles in 1925. In the early 1930s Bing's brother
Everett sent a record of Bing singing "I Surrender, Dear" to the president
of CBS. His live performances from New York were carried over the national
radio network for 20 consecutive weeks in 1932. His radio success led Paramount
Pictures to include him in The Big Broadcast of 1932 (1932), a film
featuring radio favorites. His songs about not needing a bundle of money
to make life happy was the right message for the decade of the Great Depression.
His relaxed, low key style carried over into the road comedies made with
Bob Hope. He won the best actor Oscar for playing an easy going priest
in Going My Way (1944). He showed that he was indeed an actor as
well as a performer when he played an alcoholic down on his luck opposite
Grace Kelly in The Country Girl (1954). Playing golf was what he
liked to do best. He died at age 73 playing golf at a course outside Madrid
-- after completing a tour of England that had included a sold-out engagement
at the London Palladium.
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"The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is the re-telling of the Sketch Book (1819-20)
by Washington Irving. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in a tiny New
England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty,
Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a
little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him.
Washington
Irving was born in New York City on April 3, 1783. Irving was the last
of eleven children born to a prosperous merchant family. He studied law
while travelling through Europe and was received into the bar in 1806,
although he never attended college or was required to by his family. He
never really became a lawyer and his interests during the times were of
writing. After that was the beginning of his writing career.
Many of Irving's works dealt directly with English life and customs
rather than American life of his time, which he never attempted to come
to terms with. In 1819, Irving wrote a collection of essays and short stories
collaborated in The Sketch Book. This book was by far Irving's most popular
work that was widely acclaimed in both England and the United States for
its benevolence, grace, and humor. Included in this collection were two
of Irving's most loved pieces, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van
Winkle. As Irving grew older, he spent much of his time traveling and writing
and did not seem to hold many substantial jobs. Of the few jobs he had,
Irving was a member of the staff of the United States legation in Madrid
from 1826 until1829. In 1842 Irving was appointed U.S. minister to Madrid
until 1846. After this he moved back to New York to a country home where
he lived until his death.
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