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Irving Berlin's White Christmas

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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

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...!!!!

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.