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Holiday Inn [VHS] | ![Holiday Inn [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YX9ZFYHZL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Mark Sandrich
Actors: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: Video
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Rating:  108 reviews
Sales Rank: 4138
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6300181553
UPC: 096895503931
EAN: 9781558806450
ASIN: 6300181553
Theatrical Release Date: 1942
Release Date: March 1, 1992
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This perennial, Christmas-season favorite from 1942 teamed Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as entertainers (and rival suitors of Marjorie Reynolds) running an inn that is only open on holidays. It's a great excuse for lots of singing and dancing, seamlessly wrapped in a catchy story, and Astaire's frequent director Mark Sandrich (Top Hat, Shall We Dance?) doesn't let us down. The Irving Berlin numbers (each one connected to a different holiday) are winners. Crosby's warm performance of "White Christmas" is a movie touchstone. --Tom Keogh
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 Holiday Inn - one of our Christmas favorites! February 9, 2010
Linda G. Hoeck (United States)
One of our favorite Christmas classics; we watch this every year. A great family film with great values, we can now watch year round.
Must have seasonal movies February 6, 2010
Wayne A. Lee (Cerntreville, Maryland)
Holiday Inn ,Christmas in Connecticut and White Christmas are three great movies to watch around Christmas and New years. All three are great additions to any movie collection.
HOLIDAY INN January 18, 2010
J. Ford
Great Movie, excellant resolution. Marjorie Reynolds is beautiful and was a very talented actress. Most people probably remember her as William Bendix's wife in "The Life of Riley" on television in the 50's and 60's when her hair was brunette and she was older, of course. The music is wonderful, especially "White Christmas" which was heard for the first time in this movie and was thought that it would not become the hit it did.
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire were at their usual best. I would highly recommend this film for purchase for anyone's dvd library of great movies. The other members of the cast were fun to watch too.
If you have never seen this movie, you have missed seeing one of the best. Although it is in black and white it still is a beautiful film.
I had seen parts of it in the past on television, but never in its entirety until I purchased it here at Amazon.com. I am, certainly, happy I bought it and was able to see it in its complete form.
Although I love the color movie "White Christmas" from 1954 and saw it, originally, at the movie theater, starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen, and it is one of my all time favorites, "Holiday Inn" was as enjoyable for me to see and have for my collection (and I am Jewish).
Buy it and you won't be sorry.
A Very Good Movie January 9, 2010
Henry C. Carlozzi Jr. (Waterbury CT.)
This movie is one of my wife's favorites.They just do not know how to make movies like this any more. The timing between Bing Crosbey and Danny Kay is right on.
 A film for EVERY holiday occasion December 24, 2009
Muzzlehatch (the walls of Gormenghast)
Like it's pseudo-remake WHITE CHRISTMAS, this keeps growing on me with every viewing. Might help that I hadn't seen it in a few years before last night - and that I've become much more a fan of musicals, and both Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby. Der Bingle is Jim Hardy, part of a dancing team with Ted Hanover (Astaire) and Lila Dixon (Virginia Dale); both men are in love (or think they are) with Lila, and Jim thinks he's going to take her away from dirty, all-work and no-play Broadway to a nice little farm he's got in Connecticut. She balks at the idea, decides to stay with Ted, and Jim goes off to the farm anyway. Soon he finds that farming is just too hard, and concocts the idea of turning his huge lumbering farmhouse into an inn and nightclub - but only open on holidays. He also accidentally stumbles on new female singer Linda (Marjorie Reynolds) to help him out - and become his new amour - just as Ted, predictably, has a falling-out with Lila. Complications ensue...
This is marvellous fun, though one thing that is quite noticeable on multiple viewings is just how obnoxious both Ted and Jim are. Ted's a serious drinker who doesn't know when to stop (which results in a marvelous "drunken" dance sequence with Linda on Lincoln's birthday); he also seems to have no qualms about trying to make off with every woman that Jim's interested in. Jim on the other hand is domineering and possessive to extremes, going so far as to try to sabotage Linda's chance at stardom - which ultimately ends in her leaving him, going off with Ted, and going to Hollywood where the whole "Holiday Inn" concept is re-created for a film, and the inn built on a set - except that the set, of course, is exactly the set that was used in the "real" part of the film. It's so self-reflexive it might be the first post-modern mainstream Hollywood film.
Famous songs include "White Christmas" (original to this film, and the winner for the Best Song Oscar), "You're Easy to Dance With", "Happy Holidays", and "Easter Parade" - but all of the songs (by Irving Berlin, who apparently came up with the idea for the story in the first place) are pretty swell. There's a nice balance between Bing's crooning some of these numbers and Fred's hoofing throughout - which provides another element of self-reflexivity of course as the film seems to grapple with the notion of whether singing or dancing is the more important element in a musical - and never resolves it (how could it?).
One unfortunate element that really can't be ignored here, and that certainly does make the film a little bit problematic, is the treatment of race - from characters appearing in blackface during the Lincoln's Birthday segment to Louise Beavers' typical "Mammy" role as, uhh, "Mamie", and the just-for-laughs naming of her son, "Vanderbilt". I certainly don't think the portrayal of African-Americans here is at all mean-spiritied - but it's also pretty ignorant and insensitive, and viewers who have problems forgiving old Hollywood stereotypes need to be warned that they're in force here.
I think that what I liked about the film the most is that, despite the two star's constant bickering and underhanded behavior, they do get to learn lessons the hard way - but we also don't believe for a minute that they're entirely born-again nice guys at the end, as the last number slyly reminds us. Reynolds as Linda is quite charming and pretty, and reasonably believable as the naive girl just getting started; Dale has less to do but is fine. They're both a little stronger and more self-willed than the women in many musicals of the era - though they both still fall for these jerks in the end. Ah well, that's Hollywood. Mark Sandrich, who directed most of the best of Astaire and Rogers' films of the 30s, puts it all together with class and keeps it moving, and Walter Abel provides fine comic support as frantic manager Danny.
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