White Christmas, 1954

(Re-post, Original posting: December 25, 2011)


Director: Michael Curtiz (We're No Angels, Casablanca)

Stars: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen






Bob (Crosby) and Phil (Kaye), a duo of famous entertainers who met and started their act during the war, follow their new friends Betty (Clooney) and Judy (Vera-Ellen) to Vermont for the holidays. "Vermont must be beautiful this time of year, all that snow..."

Except there's no snow, and no guests at the lovely Inn where the girls are booked to sing. Business is bad for the owner, whom the guys discover is their company's former general, General Waverly. To help out the General, Bob and Phil decide to bring their whole show up to Vermont and rehearse everything up there.

This is a wonderful movie! It's brilliant and heart-warming! I always cry at the end. Anything referring to war always makes me cry- especially World War 2.

You'll love it.

It's A Great Feeling, 1949

Director: David Butler
Stars: Doris Day, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson (cameo appearances by Jane Wyman, Joan Crawford, Eleanor Parker, Danny Kaye, Sydney Greenstreet, Michael Curtiz, Gary Cooper)





Judy (Doris Day) is a small-town girl from Wisconsin working in the kitchens at a movie studio in Hollywood, just waiting for her chance to be discovered as an actress, and be in pictures! When a chance comes up to bring Jack Carson his lunch in his dressing room, she takes it, and tries to do an impromptu audition for him, to show him what she's got. He uses her skills to get his friend Dennis Morgan to sign the contract to be in his next movie, and then kicks her out. But then he and Dennis realize they could really use her in the picture, since no one wants to work with Jack Carson.

This movie is full of cameos and silliness. I recognized some of the actors in the cameos, but I think it would have been much funnier if I had watched it in 1949 when it first came out. I would know who the actors were and it would be much better, I'm sure.

SPOILER: The guys finally decide that Judy really does have talent and they want her in their picture, but it's too late and she is on her way to Wisconsin to marry a "nobody", Mr Bushdinkle. Jack and Dennis get there just in time to see to the two kiss after the wedding. I had to look up who her husband was when they showed his face finally, because I am not that familiar with actors from this era. Well, it was Errol Flynn, so that was kind of cute.

White Christmas, 1954

Director: Michael Curtiz (We're No Angels, Casablanca)
Stars: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen




Bob (Crosby) and Phil (Kaye), a duo of famous entertainers who met and started their act during the war, follow their new friends Betty (Clooney) and Judy (Vera-Ellen) to Vermont for the holidays. "Vermont must be beautiful this time of year, all that snow..."

Except there's no snow, and no guests at the lovely Inn where the girls are booked to sing. Business is bad for the owner, whom the guys discover is their company's former general, General Waverly. To help out the General, Bob and Phil decide to bring their whole show up to Vermont and rehearse everything up there.

This is a wonderful movie! It's brilliant and heart-warming! I always cry at the end. Anything referring to war always makes me cry- especially World War 2.

You'll love it.