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PRICE:
$5
General Admission
$4
Seniors 60+
Box Office Opens
1
Hour before Showtime
House Opens 30 minutes before Showtime |
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White Christmas |
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Friday - Sunday,
November 30, December 1 & 2 |
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Starring Bing Crosby,
Danny Kay & Rosemary Cloony |
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A successful song-and-dance team
become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to
save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
There's no better way to get into the
Yuletide spirit than bringing the whole family to enjoy this
vintage Christmas classic, back on the Big Screen with 45
speaker surround-sound. Even though the film was produced
prior to stereo, our system has a 'mono surround' setting that
still makes use of all 45 speakers!
White Christmas was planned as a sequel to 1942's
Holiday Inn. However, Fred Astaire had announced his
retirement (it was short-lived), and wasn't interested in the
sequel. Recasting the role was planned, but when Danny
Kaye was hired, the production team decided to make a film that
would stand on its own. Of course, comparisons abound.
Critics and fans of Holiday Inn consider it to be a
vastly superior film, but White Christmas has its own
very dedicated and passionate following.
The first film released in Paramount's wide-screen process
"VistaVision".
According to Rosemary Clooney, Bing
Crosby and Danny Kaye's "Sisters" performance was not originally
in the script. They were clowning around on the set, and
director Michael Curtiz thought it was so funny that he decided
to film it. In the scene, Crosby's laughs are genuine and
unscripted, as he was unable to hold a straight face due to
Kaye's comedic dancing. Clooney said the filmmakers had a better
take where Crosby didn't laugh, but when they ran them both,
people liked the laughing version better.
Bob Fosse was the uncredited choreographer for
the movie. Be sure to check out
Fosse & Friends live concert at
The Strand, January 25 - 27, 2019.
The Vermont inn is the remodeled Connecticut inn set from Bing
Crosby's earlier movie Holiday Inn (1942). In White
Christmas, the recycled hotel set is very gray, and appears
not to have been repainted in new colors. Since Holiday Inn was
a black & white film, the sets were probably originally painted
in grayscale, as color palette schemes would have been a waste
of resources in 1942.
Friday & Saturday, Nov 30 & Dec 1 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee, December 2 4:00 pm
1954 Unrated | Runtime
2 hours |
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