White Christmas
Michael Curtiz, 1954
This synoptic musical, with a string of Irving Berlin songs, reworks the wartime Holiday Inn, bringing together Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as a vaudeville duo helping out their second world war commander at his troubled New England hotel. It’s an Eisenhower-era picture that begins with Crosby and Kaye entertaining their comrades during the Battle of the Bulge. The first film about that winter campaign in the Ardennes, Battleground (1949), began with a nostalgic performance of “White Christmas”, and featured Leon Ames, dad in Meet Me in St Louis, as the besieged GIs’ padre
The Guardian
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