Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures ; screenplay by Claude Binyon ; adaptation by Elmer Rice ; produced and directed by Mark Sandrich.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 21484 | Universal PicturesPublication details: Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2006]Edition: Special edDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0783263090
- 9780783263090
- Holdiay Inn
- Words and music, Irving Berlin.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | MUSIC Holiday | Available | 33111005097957 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his girlfriend, Crosby decides to retire from the hustle-bustle of big city showbiz. He purchases a rustic New England farm and converts it to an inn, which he opens to the public (floor show and all) only on holidays. This barely logical plot device allows ample space for a steady flow of Irving Berlin holiday songs (including an incredible blackface number in honor of Lincoln's Birthday). Oddly enough, the most memorable song in the bunch, the Oscar-winning White Christmas, is not offered as a production number but as a simple ballad sung by Crosby to an audience of one: leading lady Marjorie Reynolds. Fred Astaire's best moment is his Fourth of July firecracker dance. Ah, but what about the plot? Well, it seems that Astaire wants to make a film about Crosby's inn, starring their mutual discovery Reynolds. Bing briefly loses Reynolds to Astaire, but wins her back during the filming of a musical number on a Hollywood soundstage (eleven years earlier, Bing enjoyed a final clinch with Marion Davies under surprisingly similar conditions in Going Hollywood). As with most of Irving Berlin's "portfolio" musicals of the 1940s, the song highlights of Holiday Inn are too numerous to mention. This delightful film is far superior to its unofficial 1954 remake, White Christmas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Originally released as a motion picture in 1942.
Special features: "A couple of song and dance men": an intimate retrospective of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire; "All singing - all dancing": the making-of 'Holiday Inn'; Audio commentary by film historian Ken Barnes; Original theatrical trailer.
Title from container.
Words and music, Irving Berlin.
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel.
A song and dance man leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. A former partner joins him and the two find themselves competing for the affections of the same lovely lady.
Not rated.
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 mono., dual-layer, digitally remastered, NTSC.
English dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.