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
23rd Academy Awards 23rd Academy Awards The 23rd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1950. "All About Eve" received 14 Oscar nominations, beating the previous record of 13 set by "Gone with the Wind". "Sunset Boulevard" became the second film with nominations in every acting category not to win a single one (after "My Man Godfrey" in 1936). This would not happen again until "American Hustle" was shut out at the 86th Academy Awards. "All About Eve" was the second film, after "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), to receive five acting nominations. It also became the first to receive multiple