Today’s movie is a musical comedy with a scene on February
22. I hope you will enjoy this film and watch it tonight.
HOLIDAY INN
Jim Hardy, Ted Hanover and Lila
Dixon are a popular dance team giving their Christmas Eve show. Jim plans to marry Lila, and then retire to
a farm in Connecticut. However, Lila tells him she has fallen in love with Ted
and wants to continue as his dance partner. Jim still quits show business and
retires to the farm, but after a year he’s had enough of farm life. Back in New
York he tells Ted and his agent Danny Reed of his plan to turn the farm into an
inn that will open only on holidays. Ted is supportive, Danny scoffing. Later
Danny is accosted by Linda Mason, an aspiring dancer, who begs him to give her
a start in show biz. He refers her to Holiday Inn and a pass to Ted’s club. At
the club she meets Jim, pretending to be a big nightclub owner and she pretends
to be a celebrity. The next day at Holiday Inn when they meet, each realizes
the other was faking the night before, but they taking a liking to each other
after that. Jim sings her a new song he
has written called “White Christmas”. The Inn opens on New Year’s Eve. Then
Lila runs off to marry a Texas millionaire. Ted goes to Holiday Inn to be
consoled by Jim, but dances with Linda. Danny arrives and seeing them together,
thinks he’s found Ted’s new dance partner. However, Ted doesn’t really remember
her as he was drunk and Jim spirits her away before Ted and Danny can discover
her identity. At the next open day,
Lincoln’s birthday, Jim arranges for the show to be performed in blackface, so
Ted and Danny won’t recognize Linda and Jim makes comments to her that she
takes as a proposal. However, on Valentine’s Day Ted identifies Linda as the
girl and persuades Jim to let them perform together at the next open date. On
February 22, 1941, George Washington’s Birthday, Ted and Linda dance together,
but Jim tries to sabotage their performance. Linda refuses to leave the Inn and
tour as Ted’s new dance partner. [57:51 to 1:04:20] Jim learns that Danny has
arranged for Hollywood agents to watch Ted and Linda perform on Independence
Day. Jim arranges for Linda to be stopped from reaching the Inn by having the
cabbie drive his taxi into the river. Linda leaves the scene and is picked up
by Lila, who didn’t marry the millionaire and is returning to Ted. Lila,
thinking Linda is a waitress at the Inn, tells her that she is to dance with
Ted and about the agents. Linda assumes (correctly) that Jim engineered this
scheme to replace her as Ted’s partner, Linda directs Lila to also drive into
the river. Ted has been forced to dance alone, but so impresses the agents that
their offer to go to Hollywood stands. Linda is angry with Jim for not letting
her make her own decision and agrees to go with Ted to Hollywood. Jim despondently allows Ted to make a movie
about Holiday Inn. At Thanksgiving Jim’s maid convinces him to try to win Linda
back. On Christmas Eve he arrives on the set where Ted is preparing to marry
Linda. Jim foils this plan and is reunited with Linda. They get married and
plan to run Holiday Inn together, while Ted and Lila resume their dance
partnership.
A musical melodrama. Notorious
for the infamous blackface Abraham Lincoln musical number. However, the film
also introduced “White Christmas” to the world.
The date is given in the film at
57:45
Producer - Mark Sandrich
Director - Mark Sandrich
Awards – The movie won the Best
Original Song Oscar. It was also nominated for the Best Original Score and Best
Story Oscars at the 15th Academy Awards.
Screenplay - Claude Binyon
Runtime – 1 hour 40 minutes
Released – August 4, 1942
Starring –
Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy
Fred Astaire as Ted Hanover
Marjorie Reynolds as Linda Mason
Virginia Dale as Lila Dixon
Walter Abel as Danny Reed
Louise Beavers as Mamie
Irving Bacon as Gus
Leon Belasco as the flower store manager
Marek Windheim as François
James Bell as Dunbar
John Gallaudet as Parker
Shelby Bacon as Vanderbilt
Copyright by Ivan Walters 2014.
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