White Christmas Movie
Back in 1954 there was a movie made in Technicolor, a musical motion picture, starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye.
The film also featured Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.
Directed by Michael Curtiz it also had the songs of Irving Berlin, including the classic “White Christmas.”
It was the first film to be produced and released in Vista Vision which is a wide screen process that allowed it to entail twice the surface area of standard 35 mm film.
The story based itself around two World War II Army friends, Bob Wallace (Crosby) a former Broadway Entertainer and Phil Davis (Kaye) a want to be Entertainer.
The film starts itself in a place in Europe on Christmas Eve in 1944.
Filming for White Christmas ran between September and November 1953,
After the guys finish with the war, they both make it big with nightclubs and radio, before moving onto Broadway.
To then become the hottest act around, to then move on to producing where they have a hit with a New York musical called Playing Around. They move after 2 years on Broadway to Florida, where they get a request from an old army mess sergeant they knew in the war, to audition his two sisters.
After they do audition the sisters Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy (Vera-Ellen) they find out that Judy had herself sent the letter. This leads to the guys getting into a few dramas with the girls which leads them on a train to Vermont.
When they arrive they discover their old friend Major General Tom Waverly is running the snow-less Columbia Inn in Pine Tree, Vermont. But after putting all of his money and pension into the lodge it is about to send him bankrupt, mainly due to the lack of snow and visitors.
So the guys decide to help out by bringing Playing Around with the whole Broadway cast, including Betty and Judy.
The movie leads onto to love for the boys and also many more capers, with the finale Bob and Betty and Phil and Judy, declare their love and the snow finally falls in Pine Tree. with everyone raising their glass stating “May your days be merry and bright; and may all your Christmases be white.”