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Singers Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) join sister act Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen) to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. There, they run into Gen. Waverly (Dean Jagger), the boys’ commander in World War II, who, they learn, is having financial difficulties; his quaint country inn is failing. So what’s the foursome to do but plan a yuletide miracle: a fun-filled musical extravaganza that’s sure to put Waverly and his business in the black.

Image credit: Paramount Pictures

Did you know?

  • According to Rosemary Clooney, the “midnight snack” scene in which Bob Wallace expounds on his theory of what foods cause what dreams was almost entirely improvised.
  • Third of three films to feature Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas.” The other two are Holiday Inn (1942) and Blue Skies (1946).
  • This was the first film photographed in VistaVision. A radical departure from the other widescreen formats of the era, VistaVision did not extend the width of the screen as much as it increased the size of the filmed area of the negative, producing a significantly clearer and sharper image with less lens distortions and more true to life imagery. The hundred or so films shot in VistaVision have been the clearest and most vivid when transferred to high definition home video formats (apart from the 65mm films).

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