| White Christmas | |
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | Robert Emmett Dolan |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Loyal Griggs |
| Edited by | Frank Bracht |
| Music by | Gus Levene Joseph J. Lilley Van Cleave |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 120 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million[2] |
| Box office | $30 million[3] |
White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, "White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn.
Produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is notable for being the first to be released in VistaVision, a widescreen process developed by Paramount that entailed using twice the surface area of standard 35mm film; this large-area negative was also used to yield finer-grained standard-sized 35mm prints.[4]
- ^ "WHITE CHRISTMAS (U)". British Board of Film Classification. September 13, 1954. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
- ^ Hood, Thomas (October 18, 1953). "'White Christmas': From Pop Tune to Picture". The New York Times. p. X5.
- ^ "Box Office Information for White Christmas". The Numbers. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
- ^ Hart, Martin (1996). "The Development of VistaVision: Paramount Marches to a Different Drummer". Widescreen Museum. Retrieved May 7, 2016.