At a nightclub which only opens on holidays, crooner Jim (Bing Crosby) and professional dancer Ted (Fred Astaire) vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer, Linda (Marjorie Reynolds.)
Holiday Inn is best remembered for an iconic scene, in which Crosby and Reynolds sit at a Piano, next to a blazing hot fire, and deliver a pitch perfect rendition of (probably the best known Christmas song) 'White Christmas.' Despite this, Holiday Inn isn't really a Christmas film, it takes place throughout the year.
How Jim affords to only open during the holidays, we won't ask! The love triangle plot is slight but there are some terrific song and dance numbers, alongside high romance and good farcical comedy.
Astaire's genius fireworks-studded tap dance routine is unmissable!
Virginia Dale is good as Lila Dixon (part of the popular New York City song and dance act.) Altogether now, "I'm dreaming of a..."
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DIRECTED BY: Mark Sandrich. SCREENPLAY BY: Claude Binyon, Elmer Rice (adaptation.) STORY BY: Irving Berlin. RUNNING TIME: 100 minutes. CERTIFICATE: U / G. USA.
Great song and dance numbers but the minstrel show number "Abraham" is certainly dated, racist and inappropriate now (although seen as perfectly innocent at the time. It wasn't supposed to be malicious. It was pro-Abraham Lincoln.)
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