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The film was initially broadcast in two parts, [2] and is based on the novel by Gillian White. [3] The film was commissioned as part of the BBC's £42 million-pound Christmas schedule line-up for 2000. [4] Neither part of the film attracted more than 6.4 million viewers, placing it outside of the Top 30 most watched programmes that week. [5]
Gillian White (lawyer) (1936-2016), English professor of international law Gillian White (sculptor) (born 1939), English sculptor based in Switzerland Gillian White (writer) (1945-2020), English novelist and journalist
The song established that there could be commercially successful secular Christmas songs [13] —in this case, written by a Jewish immigrant to the United States. [14] Ronald D. Lankford Jr., wrote, "During the 1940s, 'White Christmas' would set the stage for a number of classic American holiday songs steeped in a misty longing for yesteryear."
In White Christmas, the same melody is sped up by a factor of 3 or 4 and creates one of the film’s most memorable dance numbers. 3. Irving Berlin won the Oscar, and presented it to himself!
While Run-DMC weren't the first group to make a Christmas rap song (that honor goes to Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'"), they made a memorable, honest, and fun song. Or, as DMC himself put it ...
She was born on 6 February 1945 in Streatham, south London, and was adopted as a baby by Ted and Lily Smith of Wirral, Merseyside, where she grew up.She had a difficult childhood, was expelled from three schools, and ran away to London, where a social worker helped her to obtain a job as a junior reporter on a newspaper in Harlow, Essex.
White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen.Filmed in Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, "White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn.
Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas is an album with songs from the 1954 movie, White Christmas. Among the featured artists are Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, and Trudy Stevens (who dubbed for Vera-Ellen in the movie), with Peggy Lee, who was not in the movie, singing some parts. It is one of the last 78 rpm albums Decca ...