Going My Way

Guest host Dana Delaney introduces Going My Way, 1944.

Guest host Michael Feinstein introduces Going My Way, 1944.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Going My Way, 1944.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Going My Way, 1944.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Going My Way, 1944.

Still in his warm-ups from his beloved St. Louis Browns, Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) induces his ballplayers (mostly the Robert Mitchell Boys Choir) into learning a carol, in Leo McCarey's Going My Way, 1944.

Sauntering into his new New York City parish, Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) meets neighborhood kids and atheist Belknap (Porter Hall), early in Leo McCarey's Going My Way, 1944.

Still in his first meeting with long-serving Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), junior priest O'Malley (Bing Crosby), his mission not yet revealed, gets a tour of St. Dominic's, in Leo McCarey's Going My Way, 1944.

Elderly Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald) and Mrs. Carmody (Eily Malyon) are skeptical of newly-arrived Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby), even more so as he greets old friend Father O'Dowd (Frank McHugh), in Going My Way, 1944.

Former entertainer Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby), wrapping up a duet with Carol (Jean Heather), who's come to New York to become a singer, but is being taken in as a runaway, and is so introduced to elderly Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), in Leo McCarey's Going My Way, 1944.

Eight Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor went to Going My Way (1944) the story of a young singing priest (Bing Crosby) in a new parish.