White Christmas (1954)
Let’s get the elephant out of the room: Everyone gets Holiday Inn and White Christmas confused. There’s no need to be ashamed if you do, since everyone else in America gets them confused, too—that’s the only reason we continue to watch them at Christmastime, because we keep forgetting which one is “the good one”.
White Christmas is in Technicolor, and Bing Crosby’s sidekick is Danny Kaye. That should help most of you set it apart from Holiday Inn, which is in black and white, and costars Fred Astaire. This one’s story involves the troops, and the retirement of head honcho Dean Jagger. The girls are Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. That should clear things up for the rest of you.
Just as with Holiday Inn, there are good parts and lousy parts to this movie, so whether or not this becomes “the good one” in your opinion is entirely up to you. The good parts are the adorable Danny Kaye song “Snow”, the sweet dance number with Vera-Ellen, “The Best Things Happen when You’re Dancing”, and Bing’s reprise of his signature song “White Christmas”. The bad things about this movie are the cross-dressing reprise of “Sisters”, the original version of “Sisters”, the rest of Rosemary Clooney’s songs, Rosemary Clooney’s ridiculous argument that doesn’t make any sense, and anything else that involves Rosemary Clooney. Vera-Ellen is beautiful, sweet, is an impeccable dancer, and has a perfect figure—why is another woman even in the movie?
More Bing Crosby movies here!
More Christmas movies here!
White Christmas is in Technicolor, and Bing Crosby’s sidekick is Danny Kaye. That should help most of you set it apart from Holiday Inn, which is in black and white, and costars Fred Astaire. This one’s story involves the troops, and the retirement of head honcho Dean Jagger. The girls are Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. That should clear things up for the rest of you.
Just as with Holiday Inn, there are good parts and lousy parts to this movie, so whether or not this becomes “the good one” in your opinion is entirely up to you. The good parts are the adorable Danny Kaye song “Snow”, the sweet dance number with Vera-Ellen, “The Best Things Happen when You’re Dancing”, and Bing’s reprise of his signature song “White Christmas”. The bad things about this movie are the cross-dressing reprise of “Sisters”, the original version of “Sisters”, the rest of Rosemary Clooney’s songs, Rosemary Clooney’s ridiculous argument that doesn’t make any sense, and anything else that involves Rosemary Clooney. Vera-Ellen is beautiful, sweet, is an impeccable dancer, and has a perfect figure—why is another woman even in the movie?
More Bing Crosby movies here!
More Christmas movies here!