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  1. White Christmas (song) " White Christmas " is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The song was written by Berlin for the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn. The composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards. Bing Crosby's record topped the Billboard chart for 11 weeks in ...

  2. 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 Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, "White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn.

  3. Dec 24, 2021 · I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know. Where the treetops glisten. And children listen. To hear sleigh bells in the snow. Berlin, who wrote “God Bless America ...

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  4. The original version of the song was written in California. There are differing stories regarding the creation of the song. One account stated that Berlin, who was already famous for such hit songs as “Cheek to Cheek” and “God Bless America,” wroteWhite Christmas” while staying at a hotel in sunny La Quinta, California, in 1940.

  5. The lyric cites Jolson (Al), Hope (Bob) and Benny (Jack). But when the song was written, before the film was cast, Crosby himself was name-checked in the song. It was originally Hope, Jolson and ...

  6. White Christmas: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen. A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

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  8. Dec 16, 2021 · It’s 1940. Irving Berlin runs into his secretary’s office and shouts, “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!”. Just eight lines long, Berlin calls it “White Christmas.”.

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