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On Christmas Day, Linda arrives at Holiday Inn and meets Jim, the pair immediately realizing their deception. Jim sings her his new song, "White Christmas". On New Year's Eve, Holiday Inn opens to a packed house. Back in New York City, Ted learns that Lila is leaving him for a Texas millionaire.
Before 1942, Christmas songs and films had come out sporadically, and many were popular. However, "the popular culture industry had not viewed the themes of home and hearth, centered on the Christmas holiday, as a unique market" until after the success of "White Christmas" and the film where it appeared, Holiday Inn. [15]
Crosby even sings “White Christmas” in Holiday Inn, ... It was the first film in VistaVision, which was a brand new higher-resolution version of the standard 35mm film format. VistaVision only ...
The quaint inn featured in much of White Christmas is the same Paramount set featured in Bing Crosby’s earlier Christmas movie, Holiday Inn. The Vermont inn was remodeled after the 1942 film ...
He wrote "White Christmas" for a musical that eventually morphed into the movie Holiday Inn and ended up winning an Academy Award for the song. In 1954, it was the title track of another Bing ...
"White Christmas (finale)" (Crosby, Kaye, Clooney, Vera-Ellen & Chorus) All songs were written by Irving Berlin. The centerpiece of the film is the title song, first used in Holiday Inn, which won that film an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1942. In addition, "Count Your Blessings" earned White Christmas its own Oscar nomination in the same ...
Marjorie Reynolds (née Goodspeed; August 12, 1917 – February 1, 1997) was an American film and television actress who appeared in more than 50 films, including the 1942 musical Holiday Inn, [1] in which she and Bing Crosby introduced the song "White Christmas" in a duet, albeit with her singing dubbed.
This was also the first release of Crosby's signature song "White Christmas" on shellac disc record. The 1942 version would be released only one more time, in 1945's compilation album, Merry Christmas, before the song was re-recorded in 1947 (because the original master recording wore out). The later version became the standard.