Saturday Afternoon
Dec. 18, 2021
White Christmas
on NetFlix
1954 [TV-PG] 2 hours
CAST: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney
GENRES: Romantic Comedies, Musicals, Family Movies
THIS MOVIE IS: Charming, Feel-Good, Romantic
Two war buddies fall for two sisters and follow the girls to a resort owned by their former commanding officer, who is in danger of losing the place.
“Paramount’s first film in (lavender-hued) VistaVision was this pornographically soppy but, nonetheless, hearty and humorous 1954 festive romp in which Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye take their astonishingly popular two-man lounge-comedy-dance revue to rural Vermont. It’s a standard putting-on-a-show movie with swinging tunes (courtesy of Irving Berlin), harmless misogyny, and a nice line in bitching at Rogers and Hammerstein’s expense. It’s as sickly-sweet as an eggnog tsunami, but Bing’s brandy-butter baritone and Kaye’s incessant, proto-Jim Carrey clowning always manage to raise a smile.”
From a review in 2008, by David Jenkins https://www.timeout.com/movies/white-christmas