12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS FILMS | Day 11: «White Christmas» (1954)
Theatrical release poster Directed by Michael Curtiz, White Christmas (1954) opens on Christmas Eve 1944, somewhere in war-torn Europe, as soldiers of the U.S. Army's 151st Division enjoy a show put on by song-and-dance men Captain Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Private Phil Davis (Danny Kaye). After the war and over the course of ten years, the duo make it big in nightclubs, radio and then on Broadway, eventually becoming successful producers. On the same day that their new revue, Playing Around , opens in Florida, Bob and Phil receive a letter from their mess sergeant fr om the war asking them to look at an act his two sisters are doing. When they go to the club to watch the Haynes Sisters, Bob is instantly smitten with Betty (Rosemary Clooney), while Phil is attracted to Judy (Vera-Ellen). When Phil deftly persuades Bob to follow the sisters for a Christmas booking at a ski lodge in Vermont, they discover that the inn is run by their former commanding officer, Gene...