Is White Christmas and Holiday Inn the same movie?
Is White Christmas and Holiday Inn the same movie? The success of the song “White Christmas” eventually led to another film based on the song, White Christmas (1954), which starred Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. It was an extremely loose remake of Holiday Inn, with a plot again involving an inn, but otherwise different from the earlier film.
Is White Christmas the sequel to Holiday Inn?
The film is neither a sequel to, nor a remake of, Holiday Inn (1942), a persistent myth that continues to this day. Aside from both films starring Bing Crosby and featuring Irving Berlin scores (most notably the chestnut “White Christmas”), the plots and characters’ names are completely different.
Is Holiday Inn movie A Christmas movie?
Perhaps the most obvious reason that “Holiday Inn” should not be counted as a Christmas classic is that it’s not a Christmas movie. Only two scenes in the entire picture are set at Christmas, with other holidays dominating the rest of the film.
