festive cheer: handsome crooner in Christmas classic
a very famous holiday tune was written for this Golden Age treat
Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Irving Berlin wrote that lovely song for the 1942 film Holiday Inn, in which Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire team up to run a Connecticut country inn that offers dinner and a show… but only on holidays. This musical romantic dramedy features song-and-dance numbers commemorating all sorts of American holidays, but it’s…