Holiday Inn
At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.
Plot:Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.
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Cast & Crew
Bing Crosby
Fred Astaire
Marjorie Reynolds
Virginia Dale
Walter Abel
Louise Beavers
Irving Bacon
Marek Windheim
James Bell
John Gallaudet
Shelby Bacon
Joan Arnold
Edward Arnold Jr.
Irving Berlin
Ruth Clifford
Acting
Irving Berlin
Camera
David Abel
Editing
Ellsworth Hoagland
Sound
Robert Emmett Dolan
Production
Norman Lacey
Fun Facts of Movie
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When Irving Berlin won an Oscar for his song “White Christmas” from this movie, he became the first artist to present himself with an Academy Award.
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For the “drunk” dance, Fred Astaire had two drinks of bourbon before the first take and one before each succeeding take. The seventh and last take was used in the film.
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The firecracker dance sequence was added to the movie as a patriotic number, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, which took place during filming. The dance number required three days of rehearsal and took two days to film. Fred Astaire did 38 takes of the number before he was satisfied with it. The crew members had to wear goggles during filming, because the sand from the firecrackers flew into their faces. Also, animation was added to make the firecracker “blasts” more dramatic. Later, Astaire’s shoes for the dance were auctioned off for $116,000 worth of war bonds.
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The animated Thanksgiving sequence, in which a turkey jumps back and forth on the calendar between the third and fourth Thursday in November, is a topical reference to the “Franksgiving” controversy. Thanksgiving was always on the last Thursday in November, and in 1939 the last Thursday was November 30, the fifth Thursday that month. So in 1939 and 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’ attempted to change Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday in November, instead of the last, in an effort to bolster holiday retail sales by starting the Christmas season earlier. This led to a joint resolution in Congress, which Roosevelt signed into law in 1941, officially designating the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. Holiday Inn was released in 1942, the first Thanksgiving when this change was in effect.
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Kemmons Wilson, who founded the Holiday Inn motel chain in 1952, named it after this movie.
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Until 1997, “White Christmas” was the best selling music single ever. It was passed at that time by “Goodbye, England’s Rose”, the Elton John rework of “Candle in the Wind” done for Princess Diana’s funeral. These two songs still rank #1-2.
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The Lincoln’s Birthday sequence, “Abraham”, is often cut from television broadcasts because the players are in blackface makeup.
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