sentences:  During the 1940s, his work became more serious and his politics more conservative.In 1944 he directed "Going My Way", a story about an enterprising priest, the youthful Father Chuck O'Malley, played by Bing Crosby, for which he won his second Best Director Oscar and Crosby won a Best Actor Oscar.His share in the profits of this smash hit gave McCarey the highest reported income in the U.S. for 1944, and its follow-up, "The Bells of St. Mary's" (1945), which paired Crosby with Ingrid Bergman and made by McCarey's newly formed production company, was similarly successful.