“White Christmas” Bing-isms (2024)

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Who sings White Christmas with Bing Crosby in Holiday Inn? ›

In Holiday Inn, the composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1942. In the film, Crosby sings "White Christmas" as a duet with actress Marjorie Reynolds, though her voice was dubbed by Martha Mears.

During the choir's performance of the theme (1'29”), the singer then whistles a delightful counterpoint passage (2'09”). The character created around the figure of Bing Crosby today appears stereotyped and outdated, that of the 'good father and good American'.

While acting as one of the movie's romantic couples, Crosby was 51 years old.

Ageless Love. Crosby's love interest in the movie, Rosemary Clooney, was 26; he was 51.

White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen.

The Connecticut inn set for this film was reused by Paramount 12 years later as a Vermont inn for the musical White Christmas (1954), also starring Bing Crosby, and again with songs composed by Irving Berlin.

Recorded only a couple of years after Crosby's 1942 original, Sinatra's version of “White Christmas” is the most faithful to it — and perhaps one of the only that could be considered an improvement.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby is not only the best-selling Christmas/holiday single in the United States, but also the best-selling single of all time since the advent of recorded music, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.

However, as a married man with dependents, he was a long way down the priority list for being drafted. Crosby wanted to do as much as possible for the war effort pending being drafted but it soon became evident that he was unlikely to be conscripted because of his age and his family.

Dennis Crosby killed himself in 1991, and Phillip died of a heart attack in 1994. (The two other brothers, Gary and Lindsay, died in 1995 and 1989).

How old was Bob Wallace in White Christmas? ›

WHITE CHRISTMAS CHARACTER LIST. Bob Wallace – (mid 30's to early 40's) – A major singing star, Bob is the guiding force behind the song and dance team of Wallace and Davis. He wears his fame easily, but has some trouble with social and romantic interactions.

“White Christmas,” the movie, was supposed to be a reunion of Crosby and Astaire, but illness forced Astaire to back out. Danny Kaye took his place as Crosby's wartime buddy. The movie was filmed entirely in California, a soundstage and fake snow standing in for Vermont and the real stuff.

Oct. 14 Bing Crosby dies of heart attack after a good game of golf at a course outside Madrid, Spain.

And although you see her sing in all of her movies, Ellen was actually always dubbed. So in “White Christmas” you hear Clooney singing for both parts – listen closely when they sing “Sisters.” The only time you can hear Ellen's real voice is in the quick reprise of “Snow” when they reach Vermont.

Lung cancer and death

Despite surgery and a long period of care following, she died six months later on June 29, 2002, at her Beverly Hills home. Her nephew, George Clooney, was a pallbearer at her funeral.

Marjorie Reynolds (née Goodspeed; August 12, 1917 – February 1, 1997) was an American film and television actress who appeared in more than 50 films, including the 1942 musical Holiday Inn, in which she and Bing Crosby introduced the song "White Christmas" in a duet, albeit with her singing dubbed.

She appeared in a number of movies in the late 1930s and 1940s, including Holiday Inn (1942), in which she dances and sings with Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, and she became particularly associated with musicals.

When the character Judy Haynes sings, you're actually hearing singer Trudy Stevens. The only time Vera-Ellen's real singing voice is heard is when the quartet disembarks the train in Vermont and they sing the opening lines of "Snow."

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