East Side of Heaven (1939)

Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Irene Hervey, C. Aubrey Smith ... see more  , Robert Kent , Jerome Cowan , Jane Jones , Helen Warne , Jack Powell , Hooper Atchley , Wade Boteler , Mary Carr , Dorothy Christy , Chester Clute , Frank Coghlan Jr. , Harry Depp , Edward Earle , Jackie Gerlich , Russell Hicks , Arthur Hoyt , Brandon Hurst , Phyllis Kennedy , Joseph King , John Farrell MacDonald , Frank Moran , Raymond Parker , Emory Parnell , Billy Wayne , Lillian West , Clarence H. Wilson , Douglas Wood , Lloyd Ingraham , Baby Sandy , Jane Goude , Matty Malneck and His Orchestra , Allyn Joslyn , Charles Winninger , Claire Dodd , Donald Woods , El Brendel , Gloria Jean , Kathryn Adams , Moroni Olsen , Nana Bryant

Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his roommate, dour doorman Mischa Auer, Crosby offers care and shelter to the in... read more fant until he can locate the parents. The baby brings in some unwanted publicity for Crosby, which costs him his job--no real problem, in that a happy ending is obviously in the offing. East Side of Heaven was the first of a two-picture deal between Bing Crosby and Universal Pictures, which turned out to be a smart move money wise for both parties. Crosby's leading lady is the vivacious Joan Blondell, who later characterized her costar as "Aloof...I think he was born that way." The infant in the story is played by Baby Sandy (Sandra Henville), who was subsequently launched into a brief "B" series of her own before retiring at the advanced age of four. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi