Happy Holiday (song) Happy Holiday (song) "Happy Holiday" (sometimes performed as "Happy Holidays") is a popular song composed by Irving Berlin during 1942 and published the following year. "Happy Holiday" was introduced by Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds (dubbed by Martha Mears) in the 1942 film "Holiday Inn" in a scene when the Inn opens for the first time. While it is commonly regarded as a Christmas song, in the film it is performed on New Year's Eve, and expresses a wish for the listener to enjoy "happy holidays" throughout the entire year. Jo Stafford was the first to record and release it
Hellzapoppin' (film) whose film "Citizen Kane" closes with Charles Foster Kane's childhood sled being burnt). The film has a frenetic pace, and often breaks the 'Fourth wall', including inner 'fourth walls' introduced by its nonlinear, metafictional narrative. The 1942 Academy Award nomination for Best Song for "Pig Foot Pete," (which lost to "White Christmas"), was attributed to "Hellzapoppin'," but the song never appeared in the film -- it was actually performed in another Universal production from the same year, the Abbott and Costello film "Keep 'Em Flying." Hellzapoppin' (film) Hellzapoppin' is a 1941 Universal Pictures adaptation of the musical of the same