After leaving the Army after W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.
White Christmas Trivia -
- Danny Kaye was a
last-minute replacement for the originally cast Donald
O'Connor.
- The first film produced in Paramount's wide screen process "VistaVision".
- The TV camera in the Ed Harrison Show scene is a real one (a classic RCA
monochrome; the cameraman is hiding the telltale logo with his hand), but
the call sign atop it was real as well - it was that of Channel 4, NBC's
(and thus RCA's) flagship station in New York, which changed its call sign
to WRCA-TV the year of the film's release. (They adopted their current WNBC-TV
calls in 1960.)
- The original idea was to reunite Fred
Astaire and Bing Crosby,
as they had been successful in Holiday
Inn (1942). Astaire refused, as he had "retired" at the time,
so the part was reworked for Donald
O'Connor. O'Connor pulled out, and the part was reworked for Danny
Kaye.
- The photo that Vera-Ellen
shows to Bing Crosby and Danny
Kaye of her brother, Bennie, is actually a photo of Carl
'Alfalfa' Switzer.
- All of Vera-Ellen's
costumes, down to her robe and sleepwear, were designed to cover her neck,
which was aged beyond her years due to her eating disorder, anorexia.
- The Vermont inn is the remodeled Connecticut inn set of Holiday Inn (1942).
For Tickets Call 865-983-3330
The Palace Theater is conveniently located in Downtown Maryville just 17 miles south of Knoxville, TN.
South from Knoxville: Travel 129 South past the airport. Take the right fork and turn left at the first light.
Pass 4 or 5 lights and Take the first right onto Broadway.
The Palace is will be on the right.
Plenty of Free Parking in the city municipal lot.
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