White Christmas (song) created a distinct Christmas chart for seasonal releases. In "Holiday Inn", the composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1942. In the film, Crosby sings "White Christmas" as a duet with actress Marjorie Reynolds, though her voice was dubbed by Martha Mears. This now-familiar scene was not the moviemakers' initial plan. In the script as originally conceived, Reynolds, not Crosby, would sing the song. The song would feature in another Crosby film, the 1954 musical "White Christmas", which became the highest-grossing film of 1954. (Crosby made yet another studio recording of the song, accompanied by Joseph J.
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