White Christmas (film)

White Christmas is a American film from 1954, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. The movie has the song "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin as a starting point. In the film are several other songs of this composer/lyricist to hear.

The film was a commercial success in cinemas and earned record revenues of $ 12,000,000 in 1954. It was the first film that was produced and released in VistaVision.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == It is Christmas 1944 and Captain Bob Wallace and Phil Davis soldier entertain the American troops with songs and sketches. By the end of the show arrives Maj. Gen. Waverly. Waverly had the command hand over to his successor. Like him, his men would like to thank for their bet is the camp fired upon by German artillery. While Wallace is trying to let his men to find cover, pour out a house in. Davis knows to save him and touches themselves slightly injured in his arm. As Wallace his rescuer is look it up in the hospital, he is manipulated. Davis who could sing and dance wants a duo forms with Wallace, who is already famous as a singer-entertainer. As Wallace Davis to his ' wounded ' seizes hesitates, arm and says that Wallace ', of course, nothing is mandatory '.
 * 2 Cast
 * Scenario 3
 * 4 Actors
 * 5 Recordings
 * 6 Music
 * 6.1 Used songs
 * 6.2 cut off songs
 * 7 Receipt
 * 8 stage version
 * 9 external link

Bing and DannyAfter the war, the duo Wallace and Davis hit in the nightclub circuit and later on Broadway. If they are with their own musical "Playing Around" go on tour, the two in Florida. There, they visit the nachtclubact at the request of an old Army Comrade of his two sisters, the Haynes Sisters. Wallace turns out to be very interested in the oldest sister, Betty, and Phil is under the pressure of the youngest, Judy. They help the girls to escape from the nightclub as the sheriff arrive there. The landlord of that snow still has a claim on the two. Phil gives Judy the train tickets he had bought for himself and Bob. Once at the train arrived hear Bob, who thinks to be able to go on holiday at last, that Phil has given away tickets.He is furious and wants the that snow from ' are falling. Phil finale and Bob and Phil cosy talking to the Judy. The train goes to Vermont and the four are looking forward to the snow. The sisters have a commitment at the Columbia Inn in Pine Tree, Vermont. Bob and Phil follow them and discover that the Inn owned by General Waverly. The General has already stopped his savings in the Inn, but by staying away from the snow and tourists he risks going bankrupt.

Danny Kaye and Vera-EllenPhil suggests that he and Bob Wallace resume their old nachtclubact going to do to attract visitors, but Wallace has a better idea. He let the complete musical "Playing Around" get to Vermont. Meanwhile, a romance between Bob and Betty, while Judy and Phil start feeling for each other more. Bob also discovers that Waverly the army back in will, but is denied. This hurts the pride of the retired General fierce. To restore the pride of the General Division of the old Waverly wants to get Bob to Vermont to celebrate Christmas. He wants to make an appeal on the Ed Harrison show. Harrision, an old Army Comrade, is enthusiastic and wants the miserable situation of the General milking with a live show on TV and free publicity for Wallace and Davis. Wallace refuses this, he only wants the appeal. But the roddelaarster of the Inn, housekeeper Emma, has only the part of the live show and heard the advertising and she tells this to Betty. Who is furious and leaves without an explanation from Vermont. Bob Wallace is stunned and her travels. But Betty refuses to see him. He goes to the television studio and does his call. Betty sees the show and understands now that there is a misunderstanding. If the Division to Vermont comes for the performance of Playing Around is Waverly touched and his pride restored. Bob and Betty are reunited, and Judy and Phil are now together. If they meet in the poor close is it snow, still have a White Christmas. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Scenario[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Starting point of the movie was the song "White Christmas" that Irving Berlin had written in 1940. Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1941 for the film Holiday Inn. In this film makes Crosby together with Fred Astaire andVirginia Dale part of a musical trio. White Christmas is loosely based on Holiday Inn but has a different plot. The story of the film is less important and serves mainly as coat rack for the various songs and dance numbers. ==Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Fred Astaire was initially approached for the role of Phil Davis. Astaire was reading the scenario and was not impressed, he refused the role. It was decided to replace him by Donald O'Connor, but he was ill, after which Danny Kaye got the role. Vera-Allen, an actress/dancer was attracted to the role of the youngest Hayneszuster, Judy. However, she was actually seven years older than Rosemary Clooney who interpret the role of the older Betty went. In the film she wears creations that envelop her neck. Even the Pajamas she wears are designed so that you can't see her bare neck. As a result, there were rumors that she had anorexia and that her neck by the disease was out of date and wrinkled. It was, however, only rumors, because although she known as the woman with the narrowest means of very Hollywood never proved that they suffered to anorexia .Also the story about the neck is not true. At the premiere of "A Star Is Born", also from 1954, she wore a dress with cut out neck and was her smooth neck to see clearly. Crosby and Kaye==Recordings<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was shot between september and november 1953. For the choreography was Loyal Griggs attracted. But a lot was done by a young Bob Fosse, all this was not reported on the end credits. Fosse was also to see as a dancer in three dance numbers. Since both Danny Kaye as Vera-Ellen experienced dancers were, they took most of the dance numbers on their behalf. Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby took the lead in the vocal numbers. A number of dancers in the film stood at the beginning of their career, for example, John Brascia was the dance partner of Vera-Ellen in some of the dance numbers during the so-called rehearsals for the musical-in-the-musical Playing Around. He would later in another piece or twenty films acting and dancing. George Chakiris would win a Oscar in 1961 for Best Supporting Actor in West Side Story. He was already active in various musical movies since 1947, where he usually danced as one of the members of the ballet. This was also the case in White Christmas. Though he danced an important role in the song "Love You Didn't Do Right by Me", with Rosemary Clooney.
 * Bing Crosby: Bob Wallace
 * Danny Kaye: Phil Davis
 * Vera-Ellen: Judy Haynes
 * Rosemary Clooney: Betty Haynes
 * Dean Jagger: General Waverly
 * Mary Wickes: Emma Allen

"the Sisters"<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">As I said, she was better known as a dancer/actress than as a singer. Her singing voice was replaced in the post production by the voice of Trudy Stevens, who got no mention.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A curious cameo came from Carl Switzer. Switzer was very popular as a teenager in the film series Our Gang and Little Rascals when Alfalfa. After the Second World War was the fame of Switzer largely over. He can be seen on the photo that the Phil and Bob Judy to show and which to see their brother Benny is. Phil shudders and says quietly to Bob: "that's Freckles face Haynes with his dog head".

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some of the scenes in the movie was created by improvisation, for example the scene at the beginning of the film as Bob and Phil the act of imitating the Judy and miming. This scene was not in the scenario and was due to the conduct of corny Crosby and Kaye on the set. They did an imitation of the act of Clooney and Vera-Ellen, which did very well at the film crew.Director Michael Curtiz liked it so much that he left the scene in the movie. Another improvised scene is where Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby meet each other at night in the kitchen of the Vermont Inn. Crosby tells Clooney what dreams he gets from eating chicken and liver sausage. The Vermont Inn was a rebuilt version of the Inn from the Hollywood Inn decor from 1942.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the shooting of the scenes in and around the train was diverted to the Fox Studio, the only studio that had a train on the set. Visit Bing Crosby as Bob Wallace In the film the Ed Harrison-tv show. This was a parody of the Ed Sullivan Show. The tv camera that is an RCA Monochrome tv camera that was used on Channel 4 in the time (later WRCA-TV), the famous tv station of NBC in New York. ==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Used songs<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">As I said, was the backbone of the film is formed by the songs of Irving Berlin. The following songs to hear;

<p lang="en" len="73" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A number of songs by Irving Berlin Sung only patches:
 * White Christmas (sung by: Bing Crosby)
 * It's Cold Outside (sung by: Bing Crosby)
 * The Old Man (sung by: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and chorus)
 * Medley: "Heat Wave"/"Let Me Sing and I'm Happy"/"Blue Skies" (sung by: Bing Crosby & Danny Kaye)
 * Sisters (sung by: Rosemary Clooney & Trudy Stevens)
 * The Best Things Happen While you're Dancing (sung by: Danny Kaye and the choir)
 * Snow (sung by: Crosby, Kaye, Clooney & Stevens)
 * Minstrel Show Medley: "I'd Rather See a Minstrel Show"/"Mister Bones"/"Mandy" (sung by: Crosby, Kaye, Clooney, & the choir)
 * Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep "(sung by: Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney)
 * Choreography (sung by: Danny Kaye)
 * Abraham (Instrumental)
 * Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me (sung by: Rosemary Clooney)
 * What Can You Do with a General? (Sung by: Bing Crosby)
 * Gee, I Wish I Was Back in the Army "(sung by: Crosby, Kaye, Clooney & Stevens)
 * White Christmas (finale) "(sung by: Crosby, Kaye, Clooney, Stevens & chorus)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The song "What Can You Do with a General?" was an unknown song by Irving. He wrote it for the musical "Stars on My Shoulders", which never went into production. Snow originally had a different title, namely Free, and did not agree on snow. It was originally intended for the musical Call Me Madam. Irving maintained the melody, but changed the text. Originally, the lyrics of the chorus: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Free — the only thing worth fighting for is to be free. Free — a different world you'd see if it were left to me. <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the song "Gee, I Wish I Was Back In The Army" is the following text told: Jolson, Hope And Benny all for free. This refers to three singers who performed during the Second World War to entertain the troops: Al Jolson, Bob Hope and Jack Benny. Originally insisted: Crosby, Hope and Jolson all for free. But Irving modified the words because Bing Crosby already in the film occurred. ===Lost songs<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Initially, also the song "A Crooner — A Comic", that Irving specially wrote for the film on the program. It was intended as a duet for Bing and Donald O'Connor. But after O'Connor had withdrawn, disappeared also the song. Also the song "Santa Claus" of Berlin was killed. It was intended as the opening of the Christmas show that Phil and Bob gearing up for the troops. Kaye and Crosby sang it as a duet, but the song was killed in the Assembly. ==Receipt<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was a blockbuster. Alone earned $ 12,000,000 in 1954. The number two of The Caine Mutiny that year brought "only" $ 8.700.000 on. ==Stage Version<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2004 a stage version of the film under the title "Irving Berlin's White Christmas".
 * Heat Wave
 * Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
 * Blue Skies