White Christmas (song) White Christmas (song) "White Christmas" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, along with Crosby's, have sold over 50 million copies. Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims
20th Academy Awards 20th Academy Awards No film received more than three awards at the 20th Academy Awards. This would not recur until the 78th Academy Awards. Rosalind Russell was highly favored to win Best Actress her performance in "Mourning Becomes Electra", but Loretta Young won instead for "The Farmer's Daughter". James Baskett received an Academy Honorary Award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in "Song of the South", which made him the first African-American man and the first Walt Disney star to win an Academy Award for acting. At age 71, Edmund Gwenn was the oldest Oscar-winner to that time. The previous