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
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