Also, the 17th #Oscars (March 15, 1945) was the only time an actor had noms for Best Actor AND Best Supporting for the SAME CHARACTER in the SAME FILM!
WTF?? 😱
#BarryFitzgerald eventually lost the Best Actor, but won Best Supp for playing Father Fitzgibbon in #GoingMyWay!
March 15, 1945.
#GoingMyWay won BP at the 17th #Oscars .
This was the first year the number of BP noms was limited to 5.
I don't consider #GoingMyWay to be a musical. Film historian Jeanine Basinger considers it "a musical nonmusical."
It has singing in it, but it's primarily a Bing Crosby vehicle in which audiences expected him to sing. Take away the five songs heard in it, the story remains the same. #TCMParty
When Ben Mankiewicz recently said that 10 musicals have won Best Picture, I thought it hadn’t been that many. Does #GoingMyWay count? It’s a movie with people doing a lot of singing, but not in a musical way to drive the plot. Either way, you can’t beat “Swinging on a Star.” #31DaysofOscar #TCMParty
Fred Mertz has a good ear!
#GoingMyWay #TCMParty
$10 in 1944 is equivalent in purchasing power to approximately $184.16 in 2026
#goingmyway
#tcmparty
"You even throw like an atheist." #GoingMyWay #TCMParty
Stallone and double Best Actor nominee doesn't sound right so I looked it up and it's true. I can't even focus right now. #GoingMyWay #TCM #TCMParty #31DaysOfOscar
We watched #GoingMyWay this evening but we’ll get around to the true favorite, Rhythm on the River, soon. #TCMParty
Man pop music changed so much. This was the number one song in the country for weeks
#TCMParty #GoingMyWay
This is my first viewing of #GoingMyWay and I realize Crosby won an Oscar but this movie is tedious.
#TCMParty
I love that we get to hear the entire aria from the like 6th lead, amazing #GoingMyWay #TCMParty #Carmen
You know, when I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb, but after a while when I was 21, I was amazed at how much he'd learned in 3 years. #GoingMyWay #TCMParty
Ok, he vanquished Barry Fitzgerald. Off to match wits with Ingrid Bergman! #GoingMyWay #TCMParty
If you don’t cry during this scene, I don’t understand you. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. #TCMParty #GoingMyWay
As I used to joke with @nitratestock.bsky.social - is #GoingMyWay Irish or Oyrish? (I think the latter) #TCMParty
Rise Stevens in a publicity still for Going My Way, a film that bewilderingly attempts to build three different subplots around her astonishingly uninteresting character.
People often ask, "Do you think that Genevieve and Father O'Malley engaged in coitus before he entered the priesthood?"
And I'm like, "Are you fucking kidding me? Her nickname in high school was Communion Plate because she got passed around so much!"
#TCMParty #GoingMyWay
I don’t understand why Risë Stevens was billed in #GoingMyWay as a contralto. She was a mezzo-soprano her whole career, and was famous for her Carmen - maybe the most famous mezzo role. #TCMParty
#GoingMyWay is one of the most manipulative movies ever made. It's so shameless it almost seems honest.
Father Fitzgibbon knows that ACAB. #GoingMyWay #tcmparty
I’ve just been reminded by Mrs. Carmody that the nasty neighborhood busybody is Mrs. Quimp. #GoingMyWay #tcmparty
I’m usually down for #GoingMyWay for one huge reason—Barry Fitzgerald. And the joke’s on McCarey and Crosby, because Fitzgerald, while very Irish, was also Protestant. Honorable Mentions: the nasty neighborhood busybody and Gene Lockhart’s proud heel of a banker. #tcmparty
"Swinging on a Star" is an American #popStandard with music composed by #JimmyVanHeusen and lyrics by #JohnnyBurke. It was introduced by #BingCrosby in the 1944 film #GoingMyWay, winning an #AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong that year, and has been recorded by numerous artists since then. In 2004.
If nothing else, it is *interesting* to see Jean Heather in her OTHER 1944 film! 🤓
#GoingMyWay
#TCMParty
I love his face on her singing. #GoingMyWay #TCMParty
When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. Then, when I was 21, I was how much smarter he'd got in just three years #GoingMyWay #TCMParty
