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During the "I Wish I Was Back In The Army" number, Wallace and Davis refer to a dentist making a "th [...]	D
Although Dean Jagger was made out to be the "old man", Bing Crosby was actually six months older tha [...]	D
The TV camera in the Ed Harrison Show scene is a real one (a classic RCA monochrome), with a real ca [...]	D
This film marked the third joint appearance between Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen, following L'uomo mera [...]	D
The song, "What Can You Do with a General?", which Leonard Maltin calls Irving Berlin's least memora [...]	D
The musical stage adaptation premiered in San Francisco in 2004 followed by productions in Boston, B [...]	D
Bob approaches the station master at the Pine Tree train station and says, "Let's ask 'Cisco', here. [...]	D
The "shortcut" trick to delay the new general in the beginning of the film is similar to the "shortc [...]	D
Michael Curtiz had previously directed Casablanca (1942) with Humphrey Bogart. Rosemary Clooney's hu [...]	D
In the "I wish I was Back In The Army" number, Wallace and Davis sing the line, "How we would yell, [...]	D
The snow used at the end of the film is actually asbestos.	D
The Vermont inn is the remodeled Connecticut inn set from Bing Crosby's earlier movie La taverna del [...]	D
Premiered at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York City.	D
The train scenes had to be shot at 20th Century Fox, the only studio to house a standing train set. [...]	D
According to Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye's "Sisters" performance was not originally [...]	D
This was one of two musicals released in 1954 that featured songs by Irving Berlin that had been int [...]	D
Many of the costumes and props from White Christmas are now on display at the Rosemary Clooney House [...]	D
During the "Snow" number in the club car, Rosemary Clooney can be seen moving her purse into positio [...]	D
Third of three films to feature Bing Crosby singing "White Christmas". The other two are La taverna [...]	D
Even though Betty was the elder of the Haynes sisters, Rosemary Clooney was actually seven years you [...]	D
The "Ed Harrison TV Show" that Bob appears on is a reference to Toast of the Town (1948), which feat [...]	D
Vera-Ellen's singing voice was dubbed. Numerous sources mistakenly assume Rosemary Clooney sang Vera [...]	D
During the "Choreography" number Phil bemoans the evolution of modern dance with tongue-in-cheek lyr [...]	D
"Judy" was shorter than "Betty" so in an effort to make them even heights for their song numbers, al [...]	D
Rosemary Clooney's character is named Betty. This was, in fact, the name of her real-life sister who [...]	D
The film is neither a sequel to, nor a remake of, La taverna dell'allegria (1942), a persistent myth [...]	D
Final film of Joan Bayley.	D
During the first scene when Crosby and Kaye appear entertaining the troops, Bing's red Santa jacket [...]	D
Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney both died at the same age: 74.	D
Cast members Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney both have descendants in the Star Trek series. Bing's [...]	D
This was the #1 box office hit of 1954, with rentals of $12 million, besting the year's second bigge [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
Just after Phil and Judy finish their dance number to "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing," [...]	D
The song "Snow" was written by Irving Berlin many years before the film. It was originally called "F [...]	D
In spite of the title, posters and promo, it is only set at Christmas at the beginning and at the en [...]	D
According to Danny Kaye in a TV documentary on Bing Crosby aired after Crosby's death, Crosby was in [...]	D
Many of Bob Wallace's more unusual turns of phrase were lifted straight from Bing Crosby's own speec [...]	D
When Betty and Bob are at the bar for the "sandwich" scene, getting a midnight snack, Crosby says th [...]	D
The red drum seen on the stage during the opening army act, can be seen several times throughout the [...]	D
Herb Vigran, the actor playing Novello the nightclub owner at the beginning of the film, was a proli [...]	D
Although the movie stars Bing Crosby and features songs by Irving Berlin, it is not a sequel to the [...]	D
Irving Berlin borrowed from himself for the song "Counting Your Blessings," the melody of the bridge [...]	D
Audiences have long been struck by dancer John Brascia's curious lack of integration into the film's [...]	D
In the movie, the four main characters take the train from Florida to Vermont, which in 1954 would h [...]	D
In an interview, Rosemary Clooney once quipped that this could have been a near-perfect movie if onl [...]	D
During the "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing" sequence Danny Kaye is wearing gray and Ver [...]	D
At a dinner for President Eisenhower, Irving Berlin wrote new lyrics to 'Gee I Wish I Was Back in th [...]	D
The last thing Dean Jagger says to Danny Kaye in the opening scene is "At ease, Davis. I said at eas [...]	D
George Chakiris later appeared in West Side Story (1961), opposite Richard Beymer and Russ Tamblyn. [...]	D
Although this movie musical has been a beloved favorite for decades, especially at Christmastime, th [...]	D
The "I'd Rather See a Minstrel Show" sequence points to changing times in terms of Hollywood's sensi [...]	D
One of the dancers accompanying Rosemary Clooney is George Chakiris. Previously, he danced alongside [...]	D
In the scene before the Sisters song, Judy and Betty are talking about their brother. Betty asks Jud [...]	D
During the "Wish I Was Back In The Army" number, when the civilian costumes raise up, Danny Kaye's o [...]	D
For the song "Gee, I Wish I Was Back In The Army", there is the lyric, "Jolson, Hope And Benny all f [...]	D
Stars three Oscar winners: Bing Crosby, Dean Jagger, and George Chakiris.	D
Percy Helton, who plays the railroad conductor, also appears in another holiday movie, playing the d [...]	D
The photo that Vera-Ellen shows to Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye of her brother, Bennie, is actually a [...]	D
Vera-Ellen's name appears without its customary hyphen in the film's opening credits sequence.	D
When Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) appears on the Ed Harrison TV show, he is briefly shown - as if the a [...]	D
This was Paramount's first production filmed in their trademarked wide-screen process, Vista-Vision [...]	D
According to Rosemary Clooney, the "midnight snack" scene in which Bob Wallace expounds on his theor [...]	D
In supplemental information on the DVD Rosemary Clooney revealed that 1. She took the role mostly so [...]	D
Danny Kaye's costuming thru-line in the film, onstage and off, consists of slacks, socks and shoes i [...]	D
For perspective, it is approximately 300 miles from Pennsylvania Station in New York City to Burling [...]	D
Tunes from the previous Bing Crosby/Irving Berlin film, La taverna dell'allegria (1942) are used thr [...]	D
This was 1954's most successful film. The second most successful was L'ammutinamento del Caine (1954 [...]	D
White Christmas (1954) was the first film photographed in Paramount's widescreen VistaVision process [...]	D
Doris, the chorine whose stock response to any greeting is "Mutual, I'm sure," was played by Barrie [...]	D
In the opening scene, the canvas backdrop behind Bing Crosby, singing White Christmas, is of the Ver [...]	D
When General Waverly is preparing to "inspect the troops", the bugler sounds off with "Ruffles and F [...]	D
The hotel manager persuing the Haynes sisters is Sig Ruman who portrayed Sgt. Johann Schulz in Stala [...]	D
In Cielo di fuoco (1949), Dean Jagger plays a World War I veteran retired Army officer who volunteer [...]	D
Sepia Records, based in Great Britain, finally released the complete soundtrack sessions from White [...]	D

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