White Christmas (film) end of 2014. White Christmas (film) White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, "White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in the film "Holiday Inn". Produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is notable for being the first to be released in VistaVision, a widescreen process developed by Paramount that entailed using twice the surface area of standard 35mm film; this large-area negative was used to
The Christmas Song others. Mel Tormé himself made several recordings of the song, including versions released in 1954 (on his live Coral Records album "At the Crescendo"), 1961 (on his Verve Records album "My Kind of Music"), 1970 (on a Columbia Records promo single), 1990 (in a medley with "Autumn Leaves", on his live Concord Records album "Mel Tormé Live at the Fujitsu–Concord Festival 1990"), and 1992 (on his Telarc Records album "Christmas Songs"). The 1970 Columbia version of the song adds an opening verse, written in 1963 while Tormé was working as musical arranger for "The Judy Garland Show". He first performed