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WHITE CHRISTMAS

THE BACK OF THE BOX
WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW

    White Christmas is a treasury of Irving Berlin's classics, among them "Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep," "Sisters," "Blue Skies," and the beloved holiday song, "White Christmas." Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. Of course, there's the requisite fun with the ladies, but the real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble. And the result is the stuff dreams are made of.

STARRING:

Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger

YEAR OF RELEASE: 1954

SCREENWRITER: Norman Krasna, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz

RUNNING TIME: 120 minutes

STUDIO: Paramount

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: C +

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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

ACADEMY AWARDS
(1 nomination and 0 wins)

Best Original Song - (Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep) Irving Berling
(nominated)

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GOLDEN GIGGLES

No awards or nominations given to this film.

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GOLDEN GLOBES

No awards or nominations given to this film.
 
 
 

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THE GEEK BOX
TRIVIA TO IMPRESS YOUR EASILY IMPRESSED FRIENDS

• Many people mistakenly assume that the song White Christmas originated in this movie, however it made it's first film appearance 12 years earlier in Holiday Inn.
• Originally this film was to be a retrospective of many of Irving Berlin's songs and to reunite Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire who became very popular after appearing together in Holiday Inn. However Astaire refused to accept his role as he was claiming to be retired from films at the time. The role was then rewritten around actor Donald O'Connor who initially accepted the role and then pulled out at the last minute. Just before shooting began the script was reworked a 2nd time for his replacement, Danny Kaye.
• The Vermont inn seen in this movie is the same inn that was was used in the film Christmas In Connecticut.
• This marks the first film to be shot in Paramount's widescreen process known as Vista-Vision.
• Actress Vera-Ellen had a severe eating disorder that we now know as anorexia that resulted in her neck and chest looking withered and far older then the rest of her body. As a result all of her costumes were designed to cover those areas and excentuate her legs.
• Quite a bit of this movie was improvised according to later interviews with Rosemary Clooney. Much of Bing Crosby's real lines and speech patterns were his own, the scene in the middle of the night in which he and Rosemary Clooney discuss what foods cause certain times of dreams was nearly all improvised.
• The "Sisters" routine that Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye perform was originally just the two of them fooling around on set, however director Michael Curtiz enjoyed the performance so much he put in the film.

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