Another true Christmas movie classic, White Christmas is the No. 18 film in our top 25 best Christmas movie countdown.
Released in 1954, musical White Christmas stars Bing Crosby (TV’s The Bing Crosby Show) and Danny Kaye (Hans Christian Andersen) as two soldiers who, after leaving the Army at the end of World War II, form a song and dance group. They get introduced to a pair of singing/dancing sisters, Rosemary Clooney (Here Come the Girls) and Vera-Ellen (Call Me Madam), and they travel together to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show. There’s Crosby and Kaye find that their former commanding general (Dean Jagger) is the owner of the inn, and it’s not doing well. As the song-and-dance groups team up to save the failing hotel, a series of romantic mix-ups ensue.
Another Irving Berlin musical (Berlin’s Holiday Inn was No. 21 in our Christmas movie countdown), White Christmas was nominated for an Academy Award for the song “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep.”
The film also features Berlin’s signature song “White Christmas,” which was introduced in 1942’s Holiday Inn.
It’s music, dancing, comedy and romance — what more could we want at Christmas?
White Christmas is available on DVD
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