Starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale and Walter Dale. [4], The film received a 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song (Irving Berlin for "White Christmas"), as well as Academy Award nominations for Best Score (Robert Emmett Dolan) and Best Original Story (Irving Berlin).[5]. Linda is charmed, but Jim is suspicious. While that song did very well, it was "White Christmas" that topped the charts in October 1942 and stayed there for eleven weeks. Although "White Christmas" has become iconic, this was not the original intention. The blackface "Abraham" and military scenes irritate some people, but for kids and others who haven't been taught racism from others, the "blackface" number is simply a reflection of how Hollywood viewed blacks in 1942, unfortunately, but it does tell a short story about Lincoln freeing the slaves, and the military scene was entirely appropriate for a country facing terrible enemies in WWII. In 2006 it was released as a single-disc "Special Edition" featuring a commentary by Ken Barnes, with interspersed archival comments by Crosby and Astaire. Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2017. November 16, 2020. Holiday Inn, the 1942 film starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, began as a vehicle for composer Irving Berlin to highlight a calendar's worth of evergreen songs, including "Easter Parade," "White Christmas," and "Happy Holidays." Do you see when this movie was made 1942, there was in your face racism everywhere then. Don't let my thoughts influence you too much. Astaire and Crosby play partner/rival song-and-dance men who compete for the hand of their performing partner, played by Virginia Dale. The owners of that inn were able to bar any other use of the name in that area of New Hampshire until they chose to relinquish the name, as their use preceded the naming of the chain. I just bought my third (or fourth) copy of this movie. In 2008 it was released as a three-disc "Collector's Edition" containing the previous DVD and a second disc with a newly computer-colorized version and Coloring a Classic, a featurette on the colorization. Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn The Broadway Musical Synopsis. The song is also reprised near the end of the movie. Fred Astaire's dancing in this is as good as any film he made and the 'firecracker' solo routine is particularly memorable. The plot is wafer thin, but that's OK. In May 1940, Irving Berlin signed an exclusive contract with Paramount Pictures to write songs for a musical film based on his idea of an inn that opened only on public holidays. Musical Numbers. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Also included was a CD of the 12-track Song Hits from Holiday Inn album, featuring original full-length studio recordings of the film's songs. Jim’s luck takes a spectacular turn when he meets Linda, a spirited schoolteacher with talent to spare. The episode starred Gordon MacRae and Dorothy Warenskjold. Jim sings Linda his new song, "White Christmas". Many segments of the film are preceded by shots of a calendar with a visual symbol of the given holiday. Instead, it has skipped back over the year in an affectionate and light-hearted spirit. Jim Hardy, Ted Hanover, and Lila Dixon have a popular New York City musical act. Directed by Mark Sandrich, Robert Allen. The following Christmas Eve, Jim is back in New York City, with plans to turn his farm into “Holiday Inn,” an entertainment venue open only on holidays, to the amusement of Ted and his agent Danny Reed. With book by Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge, music from the films Holiday Inn and White Christmas plus other Berlin songs, and directed by Greenberg, the musical premiered at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut on September 19, 2014. He found that writing a song about Christmas was the most challenging, due to his Jewish upbringing. AMC also aired the film intact before they became an advertiser-supported channel. The film was placed at No. Danny Kaye ultimately took the role. [citation needed], In 2004, the American Film Institute listed White Christmas at No. Linda refuses Ted’s offer to become his dance partner, saying that she and Jim are to be married. But with six writers working on the screenplay – including playwright Elmer Rice – the script wasn't quite as sacrosanct as the music. Empty-handed, Ted and Danny plan to return. Holiday Inn is a musical with music and lyrics by the legendary Irving Berlin, direction by Gordon Greenberg and a book by Greenberg and Chad Hodge. [9] When Crosby first heard Berlin play "White Christmas" in 1941 at the first rehearsals, he did not immediately recognize its full potential. There are more important things for a successful, happy life and career, such as being pleasant, amiable and a decent human being. AKA: Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn, 15 Dias de Prazer. Enjoy the hit Broadway adaptation of the classic 1942 movie musical, showcasing … This movie was written in a different time, with different values, as observed by Marjorie Reynolds, who played the top female role: "It doesn't overly concern me if I don't become a superstar. In 1942, Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby teamed up at Der Bingle's Paramount Pictures for Holiday Inn, a black-and-white musical that proves more entertaining than Crosby's color semi-remake White Christmas in 1954. Hardy begins playing the song to her allowing her to join him and eventually perform solo. The song is used during the Christmas holiday sections of the movie, most notably when it is introduced to Linda Mason (Reynolds) by Jim Hardy (Crosby) while she is trying to obtain a position in the shows at the inn. Lovely Christmas movie with songs and music by Irving Berlin. Astaire loved the tune, but Sandrich passed on it. The African American maid in the movie won an Oscar for her work in Hollywood and understand that these where the only roles available then to minorities. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. DirectorMark Sandrich. There are some very outdated un PC references and characters, but remember the film was made in 1942, and I have seen worse. Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire were the stars of Holiday Inn with support from Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale. Make watching it an annual tradition on YOUR favorite holiday! Holiday Inn: The New Irving Berlin Musical - Live (original title) 2h 8min | Musical | 14 January 2017 (USA) Roundabout Theatre Company's live stage production or Irving Berlin's musical about a singer who leaves show business and converts an old Connecticut farmhouse into a performance venue. With Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale. Another Berlin song, "Happy Holiday", is featured over the opening credits and within the film storyline. [19], In 2013, Universal Stage Productions, the live theater division of Universal Pictures, invited Goodspeed Musicals to develop a stage adaptation of the film. [6] It was a success in the US and the UK, the highest-grossing film musical to that time. Thanksgiving finds the inn closed and Jim depressed. As we need subs I watched the colour one and found it to be fine. "Of course" my friend said "You won't be able to buy it anywhere" (it was released in 1942). But then I sat down with 1942’s “Holiday Inn” and was simply mortified. Jim reluctantly agrees to let the producers make a film about Holiday Inn. I gave up, partway through, when a couple of the leads performed a number in blackface. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2013. Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2018. [3] With music by Irving Berlin, the composer wrote twelve songs specifically for the film, the best known being "White Christmas". I get that it's nostalgic. [18] On December 15, 1952, The Railroad Hour presented a half-hour adaption of the film. Mostly yes, but The overall feeling was disapointment. Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. 8 in the list of top-grossing movies for 1942 in the US. I had just seen the stage production, which was somewhat different from the movie. Movie Name Holiday Inn Type Hollywood Musical Director Mark Sandrich Screenplay Claude Binyon Starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel. Holiday Inn subtitles. Theodore Strauss of The New York Times described the film as "all very easy and graceful; it never tries too hard to dazzle; even in the rousing and topical Fourth of July number, it never commits a breach of taste by violently waving the flag. [14], The success of the song "White Christmas" eventually led to another film based on the song, White Christmas (1954), which starred Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. As a huge lover of classic films, and Turner Classic Movies being my favorite channel, I take every chance I get to watch films from Hollywood's golden era. Noticing the pipe, she falters, then continues as Jim's voice joins her. BroadwayHD and Roundabout Theatre Company present Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn a Broadway Musical. I don't really approve of colourising, but this works. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii occurred halfway through filming. Lila is reluctant to give up performing. Afterwards, Jim proposes to Lila. I came onto the Amazon website,and found it immediately. Synopsis Based on the 1942 award-winning movie, Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical, is a fresh take on an old classic. There, Linda encounters Jim, who pretends to own a rival club, while Linda pretends to be a celebrity friend of Ted's, but escapes when Ted and Lila approach. (. On Lincoln's Birthday, Ted and Danny search for Linda, but Jim runs the minstrel show number "Abraham" to foil them. The cast of, "Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn: The Broadway Musical." Lila tells Jim she has fallen in love with Ted instead; heartbroken, Jim bids them goodbye. The colorization was done by Legend Films, who used Edith Head’s sketch artist, Jan Muckelstone, as a color design consultant for costume authenticity. The film Holiday Inn, directed by Mark Sandrich, premiered on August 4, 1942, starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale, Marjorie Reynolds and Walter Abel.The film received a 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song (Irving Berlin for "White Christmas") and Academy Award nominations for Best Score (Robert Emmett Dolan) and Best Original Story (Irving Berlin). The role was then offered to Donald O'Connor, but he was injured before filming began. There's a problem loading this menu right now. The time for this movie has passed. This is a satirical reference to the "Franksgiving" controversy when President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to expand the Christmas shopping season by declaring Thanksgiving a week earlier than before, leading to Congress setting Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday in November by law. Still a good evening's entertainment seventy years after it was made, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2013. I couldn't help but think we weren't seeing Fred at his best. Holiday Inn Oct. 28 – Dec. 23, 2021 Based on the classic film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin’s HOLIDAY INN comes to The Fireside in celebration of all the holidays of the year. Assuming that Jim arranged for Lila to take her place, Linda directs Lila into the creek. Holiday Inn (2,817) IMDb 7.4 1h 41min 1942 X-Ray 18+ Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire sing and dance their way into your heart in the sensational musical comedy Holiday Inn. A colorized version of Holiday Inn was released by Universal on October 14, 2008. But this movie should be circulating out of our general experience. Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2018. For November, an animated turkey is shown running back and forth between the third and fourth Thursdays, finally shrugging its shoulders in confusion. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2017. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards, this special edition features 13 holiday songs by famed composer Irving Berlin, including "White Christmas" – one of the biggest-selling recordings in music history! Based on the 1942 film of the same name. Having left the millionaire, Lila tells Linda that Lila will be Ted's partner for the studio tryout. I have always enjoyed the music of Irving Berlin,and a friend mentioned a film that her Mother had been particularly fond of. To avoid advertiser objections, the edited version now airs annually on AMC. I’m hoarding them in case the cries of racism by one too many people cause it to be removed from the Amazon lineup. Steppin' Out With My Baby / I'll Capture Your Heart It also included A Couple of Song and Dance Men, a documentary on Astaire and Crosby; All-Singing All-Dancing, a featurette on audio recording of movie musicals; and a reissue theatrical trailer. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Holiday Inn [Original … From the cinematic masterpieces, all the way down to the ones that aren't so--but nonetheless are sweet and makes one feel good. The film was called 'Holiday Inn'. Movie Info In this Irving Berlin musical, Jim (Bing Crosby) and Lila are members of a performing trio who plan to quit and run a country hotel. In the original Holiday Inn movie, there is a very real, conniving love triangle, plus one. The quality and price is good, I just prefer "White Christmas", HOLIDAY INN [1942] [Blu-ray + Digital HD + ULTRAVIOLET], Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 17, 2014. Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn The Broadway Musical. Bing was so laid back I wondered how he was enjoying himself. [8], The song that would become "White Christmas" was conceived by Berlin on the set of the film Top Hat in 1935. Mid-WWII came Mark Sandrich’s Holiday Inn (1942), a Christmas musical featuring the musical talents of Irving Berlin.. Plot– Two dancers, Jim Hardy and Ted Hanover, love both their partner, Lila Dixon. The song "Be Careful, It's My Heart", played during the Valentine's Day section of the film, was originally intended to be a bigger hit when production of Holiday Inn commenced. Produced and directed by Mark Sandrich, Holiday Inn had its premiere at the New York Paramount Theatre August 4, 1942. While applying Linda's blackface makeup, Jim asks her to stay with him between holidays, which she interprets as a proposal. These are the song recordings taken directly from the motion picture soundtrack and are often confused with the studio recordings released to the public. It was expected that "Be Careful, It's My Heart" would be the big song. [20] The Roundabout Theatre Company production of Holiday Inn began previews on Broadway at Studio 54 on September 1, 2016 before the official opening on October 6. As a result, the Fourth of July segment was expanded beyond Fred Astaire's firecracker dance to include the patriotic number that highlights the strength of the US military. Filming outside the studio occurred at the Village Inn Resort in Monte Rio on the Russian River, in Sonoma County, California.[7]. Classic musical with some controversial material. On Christmas Eve, Jim prepares for his final performance before retiring with Lila to a farm in Connecticut. Lila tells Jim she has fallen in love with Ted instead; heartbroken, Jim bids them goodbye. It's a musical fantasy, not a melodrama. Travelling or based outside United States? Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, with Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, and Walter Abel. Recorded live at Broadway’s Studio 54, Fathom Events and The Roundabout Theatre Company bring “Irving Berlin’s ‘Holiday Inn’ The Broadway Musical” to U.S. cinemas for one night on November 16 at 7:30 p.m. local time. This film has been a favourite of mine since I was a child. The idea for the film is credited to Irving Berlin;the music (and lyrics of course) is by Irving Berlin;it stars Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire;who could possibly ask for anything more!!! In August 1946, song-and-dance trio Jim Hardy, Ted Hanover and Lila Dixon perform at a club in New York City ("Steppin' Out With My Baby/I'll Capture Her Heart"). [citation needed] The colorized version bears a noticeable error in the "Abraham" sequence, as Crosby's and Reynolds' make-up is brown, rather than the black of burnt cork. This joyous musical features thrilling dance numbers, laugh-out … Fred Astaire was offered the second lead in the new film, but after reading the script, he declined. Still has great songs and music but don't buy if you're easily offended. It added a trailer for each film and some text-based extras. Gus drives Linda into a creek, but she is picked up by Lila. Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2017. Jim Hardy, Ted Hanover, and Lila Dixon have a popular New York City musical act. It was an extremely loose remake of Holiday Inn, with a plot again involving an inn, but otherwise different from the earlier film. Holiday Inn" is the kind of musical that makes you wish there were fewer holidays in the year. Sadly I was a bit disapointed with the film itself. [17], Holiday Inn was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the January 11, 1943, CBS broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater, starring Crosby and Astaire with Dinah Shore. ‘Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn’ is recommended as an enjoyable and, at times, thrilling trip through pleasant holiday memories… The source of the play is the 1940’s Hollywood movie musical. Interpreted by. Jim confronts Ted in his dressing room, then locks him inside. Sign in to see videos available to you. If you like Astaire and Crosby, stick with White Christmas. Musical Theatre West celebrates the holiday season with the classic movie-turned- Broadway musical Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn December 6-15 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. (film was later remade as White Christmas) Film is dated now and could be regarded as racist in parts but you have remember when this was made. This version is also available in many boxed set collections of holiday-themed or Crosby-themed movies. Jubilant Song and Dance Christmas with Bing & Astaire, Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2017. Recorded live at Broadway’s Studio 54, Fathom Events and The Roundabout Theatre Company bring “Irving Berlin’s ‘Holiday Inn’ The Broadway Musical” to U.S. cinemas for one night on November 16 at 7:30 p.m. local time. 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