Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the ingredients of a movie are dancing by Astaire, singing by Crosby, and music by Berlin, it's a sure-fire hit. For entertainment "Holiday Inn" almost hits the top; all a spectator could ask would be more music and less story. By way of songs, this show turns out to be one of the most prolific in months. Besides the warmed over Berlin favorites, "Lazy" and "Easter Parade," two new tunes are noteworthy, "White Christmas" and "Be Careful, It's My Heart." Astaire at his agile best with an inebriate routine and a firecracker number shows his first...
Forget the plot; it is simple but manages to dull a potentially A-1 musical. If Crosby were left to his singing, and Astaire to his dancing, the show would move faster. The one spark of originality, a holiday inn (Berlin's contribution we are told), was snowed under by a standardized development leading to the inevitable clinch...
...Holiday Inn (Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby; TIME...
...Holiday Inn (Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds; TIME...
...Marjorie Reynolds Holiday Inn is a plugger's triumph. Before dancing with Astaire, singing with Crosby, she made about 70 pictures-from a moppet role (age six) in Scaramouche to college musicals, Boris Karloff thrillers, scores of Monogram and Universal Westerns and cliffhangers. Thrown in as a last-minute stopgap for a heroineless Holiday Inn, she recalled enough of her former ballet training, enough of her singing voice to get by. Blonde Miss Reynolds (real name: Marjorie Goodspeed) adds a Wild-West charm to the picture...