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
White Christmas (song) the song was written there. He often stayed up all night writing—he told his secretary, "Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I've ever written—heck, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!" The first public performance of the song was by Bing Crosby, on his NBC radio show "The Kraft Music Hall" on Christmas Day, 1941; a copy of the recording from the radio program is owned by Crosby's estate and was loaned to "CBS News Sunday Morning" for their December 25, 2011 program. He subsequently recorded the song with