Holiday Inn (film) Holiday Inn (film) Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. With music by Irving Berlin, the composer wrote twelve songs specifically for the film, the best known being "White Christmas". The film features a complete reuse of the song "Easter Parade", written by Berlin for the 1933 Broadway revue "As Thousands Cheer". The film's choreography was by Danny Dare. The film received a 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song (Irving Berlin for "White Christmas"), as well as Academy Award nominations for Best Score (Robert Emmett Dolan) and
White Christmas (song) 1975, as a secret, pre-arranged signal precipitating the U.S. evacuation from Saigon. Irving Berlin's opening verse is often dropped in recordings. It is included on "A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records", sung by Darlene Love; on Barbra Streisand's "A Christmas Album"; on the Carpenters' "Christmas Portrait", sung by Karen Carpenter; on Neil Diamond's "The Christmas Album;" on Bette Midler's "Cool Yule"; on Libera's "Christmas Album"; and on Crash Test Dummies' "Jingle All the Way". "White Christmas" is the most-recorded Christmas song; there have been more than 500 recorded versions of the song, in several different languages. The following