When was holiday inn made

The following year, Crosby performed it as a duet in the movie Holiday Inn and the song became a hit — in part, because of its resonance with soldiers and their families during WWII. I first wrote about the movie and the sets they built to create Columbia Inn in the fictional Pine Tree, Vermont, back in , and it continues to be one of the most popular posts on my blog.

There are some similarities. This was the exterior of Holiday Inn , for comparison below : Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire co-starred in Holiday Inn , and White Christmas was originally intended to be a kind of remake, bringing them together to sing and dance onscreen again. When Astaire declined, the part was reworked for Danny Kaye.

The actors were unable to stop laughing during the scene, but they left it in. One of her final roles was as Aunt March in the version of Little Women. Michael Curtiz directed White Christmas. A decade earlier, he won an Oscar for Casablanca. Paramount Pictures. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 40 minutes. Black and White. Related news. Nov 10 E! Sep 26 Gold Derby.

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Watch the video. Recently viewed Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more. Kemmons Wilson, who founded the "Holiday Inn" motel chain in , named them after this movie. Some controversy surrounded the history of the song "White Christmas" when it was reported in a news item that Irving Berlin wrote the song in , which would have made it ineligible for an Academy Award nomination.

But a biography and modern sources agree it was written for this film, and the sheet music has a copyright date. The animated Thanksgiving sequence is a topical reference to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 's failed attempt to change the date of the holiday. The firecracker dance sequence required 3 days of rehearsal and took two days to film.

The whole film simply exists as an excuse to get Crosby and Astaire to perform its various songs, which are all sung on different holidays. Like I said, Crosby and Astaire are truly gifted performers and, arguably, two of the best on-screen charmers in Hollywood history. Twice in the film he actively tries — and succeeds — to steal the attention of women that Jim has fallen in love with.

But Jim is no man to emulate, either.