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Irving Berlin’s WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) dir. Michael Curtiz starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen

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@bostonwriter I know I’m getting old. I have seen this over 100 times. I’m finally to the point where I watch only a few scenes. The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing is Danny Kaye’s absolute peak. It’s the most physically beautiful number in the movie. He was a marvel.

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ContempraINN🌹vor 1 Jahr

Fabulous movie 😍

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lionWingsvor 1 Jahr

@LaurasMiscMovie This Movie is set to hit the Big Screens this December. We’re going Sunday Dec 15th. It’s also playing Monday the 16th. Snow Snow Snow,,,,SNOW!

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James Hallvor 1 Jahr

My favorite

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BadaBing85vor 1 Jahr

@SunshineSass2 classic 😎

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Wendyvor 1 Jahr

👏 👏 👏 👏

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Tim and Tiff Tallmanvor 1 Jahr

Favorite Christmas film! Watched it this weekend! Yearly tradition with my 23 yo daughter ❤️❤️❤️it!

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Paula Adessovor 1 Jahr

Great movie! Just saw it for the first time last year.

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Linda Prantilvor 1 Jahr

BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIE EVER‼️‼️Cast, music and especially dancing… it’s not Christmas for me till I watch this movie every yr‼️🎄Love Danny Kaye and Vera Ellen in all their dance numbers… But I also like Miracle on 34th Street, the one with Natalie Wood when she was a child🤗

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Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas” in “Holiday Inn” (1942), directed by Mark Sandrich with music by Irving Berlin. “White Christmas” The song that would become “White Christmas” was conceived by Irving Berlin on the set of the film “Top Hat” in 1935. He hummed the melody to Fred Astaire and the film's director Mark Sandrich as a song possibility for a future Astaire-Ginger Rogers vehicle. Astaire loved the tune, but Sandrich passed on it. Berlin's assignment for Paramount was to write a song about each of the major holidays of the year. He found that writing a song about Christmas was the most challenging, due to his Jewish upbringing. When Crosby first heard Berlin play “White Christmas” in 1941 at the first rehearsals, he did not immediately recognise its full potential. Crosby simply said: “I don't think we have any problems with that one, Irving.” Although “White Christmas” has become iconic, this was not the original intention. The song “Be Careful, It's My Heart”, played during the Valentine's Day section of the film, was originally intended to be a bigger hit when production of “Holiday Inn” commenced. The song is used during the Christmas holiday sections of the movie, most notably when it is introduced to Linda Mason (Marjorie Reynolds) by Jim Hardy (Bing Crosby) while she is trying to obtain a position in the shows at the inn. Hardy begins playing the song to her allowing her to join him and eventually perform solo. The song is also reprised near the end of the movie. Chrysotile asbestos was used to make the fake snow used in this scene. Bing Crosby's version of “White Christmas” won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards and topped the Billboard chart for 11 weeks and returned to the number one position again in December 1943 and 1944. Crosby's version would return to the top 40 a dozen times in subsequent years. Since its release, “White Christmas” has been covered by many artists. Crosby's version is the world's best-selling single (in terms of sales of physical media), with estimated sales in excess of 50 million physical copies worldwide. When the figures for other versions of the song are added to Crosby's, sales of the song exceed 100 million. It also remains one of the best-selling singles in the United States with estimated physical copies sold between 10 and 12 million as of 1963.

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