Irving Berlin's White Christmas [Hardcover]

Thomas Nelson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 8, 2004

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film White Christmas, this Notebook not only pays tribute to the classic film, but is also a book containing everything you could want to know about snow. The CD in the back of the book includes Bing Crosby's classic version of White Christmas,as well as two other versions by Louis Armstrong and Vince Gill.

Biographical information about the film's cast, behind-the-scene stories about making the film,and the story of its success commemorate a holiday classic.

A portion of the book will focus on snow with recipes for snow cream, how to find out the most likely place in America to enjoy a white Christmas, how to make snow angels, facts about snowflakes, and how to make the perfect snowball.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (October 8, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401601928
• ISBN-13: 978-1401601928
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,253,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A WONDERFUL LITTLE BOOK!, January 5, 2006

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Tim Janson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Hardcover)

For whatever reason, White Christmas never seems to get its due credit as one of the great Christmas movies of all-time. OK, so it may not be strictly a Christmas film, this story about two army buddies who help out their old General by putting on a show at his country inn is sparkling entertainment with great songs and all the glitz and glamour of classic Hollywood musicals. This little hardcover book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the film with lots of fun trivia and information about the film and it's stars.

Irving Berlin wrote White Christmas in 1941 for the film Holiday Inn. He was asked to write songs for different holidays and while the film had many great songs, White Christmas is the one that has become immortal. It has gone on to become not only the biggest selling Christmas song of all-time, but one of the biggest selling songs period. The book begins with a synopsis of the film and then presents brief bios of the cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger and Mary Wickes, as well as bios of Berlin, and director Michael Curtiz. You'll learn that Crosby was one of the original financers of the development of Audio Tape and that Kaye was a tireless volunteer for UNICEF.

Sprinkled like shiny tinsel throughout the book are little "Snow it all" fun facts and trivia about winter and snow, such as how to make snow cream, and how to make the perfect snowman or snow angels. This is accompanied by beautiful photography from this Technicolor extravaganza. Finally a CD is included with the book that features three rendition of White Christmas by Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Vince Gill. It's a marvelous little Christmas collectible, one that anyone who loves the movie will treasure.

Reviewed by Tim Janson

3.0 out of 5 stars DISAPOINTMENT, January 16, 2008

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Kenneth R. Lavin (hatboro, pa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Christmas : May Your Days Be Merry and Bright and May All Your Christmases Be White (Hardcover)

WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE SOUNDTRACK I GREW UP WITH..INSTEAD GOT ROSEMARY CLOONEY SINGING THE SONGS FROM THE FILM BY HERSELF..AND PEGGY LEE WITH THE OTHERS IN THE FILM.....THERE MUST BE A SOUNTRACK SOMEWHERE OF THE ORIGINAL THEATER VERSION...!!!!

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great album, January 19, 2007

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puggsie's mom "puggsielove" (SLC, UT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: White Christmas : May Your Days Be Merry and Bright and May All Your Christmases Be White (Hardcover)

I have tried to find this album for years.

White Christmas is my all time faviorate movie and to find the CD that goes to the DVD.

It has all the songs and titles from the movie with some extras well.

I would suggest this to anyone who loves this movie.