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What can you say about White Christmas? The movie is one of the best-loved and most-watched holiday films of all time, a panoply of heart-warming characters and big musical numbers. Well, that and the song is the best-selling and most-oft-recorded in all of history.  Directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Mildred Pierce) with music by Irving Berlin (Easter Parade, Holiday Inn), White Christmas has a little dramatic tension, a little slapstick comedy, and a lot of Christmas cheer.

Having met in the Army during WW II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, respectively) team up to become a top-billing song-and-dance act. While scouting for new acts to add to their show, they meet two beautiful sisters who are also performers (Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen). When the sisters travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the owner of a lodge fallen upon hard times. A series of romantic mix-ups and musical numbers ensue as the performers try to help the General.

Completely aside from nostalgic value, with its being one of the films that many families watch year after year when the holidays roll around, White Christmas is a treat overflowing with high quality performances from some of the best performers of its time.

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