I never really much liked the 1954 film "White Christmas". While commercially successful, it always struck me as pretty frivolous. And the title song had been introduced a dozen years previously, in "Holiday Inn".
Still, this song has achieved iconic status, which says a lot.
I remember my mom getting tearful watching this movie. For that reason, and the schmaltzy subject, I do too.
ReplyDeleteI miss Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby..... People I remember as a kid on the black and white Zenith console TV. Happier, simpler times...
Yep, just a 'bit' famous... The movie, not so much.
ReplyDeleteI like it for the reunion of comrades from the war and helping their General in the process.
ReplyDeleteHoliday Inn was the real deal. (You gotta get the version with the original blackface Lincoln's B-day sketch.)
ReplyDeleteWhite Christmas was the color version trying to milk it for $$$.
Danny Kaye was great, Dean Jagger as the general left behind after the war was a touching subplot, and glorious Technicolor vs. B&W; but Fred Astaire at the height of his powers is unbeatable cinema.
Borepatch,
ReplyDeleteI don't often do so, but gotta disagree with you on this one. Going way out of your way to help someone in need? That's the very definition of Christmas (and Easter for that matter).