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<div align="center"><a href="http://www.myspaceanimations.com/" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="MySpaceAnimations.com" src="http://www.myspaceanimations.com/images/winter-scene-graphic6b.gif" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Lady Eve offers a blogful of holiday cheer this year. Here's what's under the tree... </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>~ Two Icons Singing</b>:<b> </b>Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra sing "White Christmas" on a December 1957 TV special...</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WFYM7SMlb48" width="420"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>~ </b></i><b>A Festive Romp From the 1970s</b>: Kenneth More and Albert Finney sing "I Like Life" in the 1970 film <i>Scrooge</i>...</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KpTxBuo8zno" width="420"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>~ </b></i><b>From Disney's <i>Fantasia </i>(1940)</b>: "The Nutcracker Suite"...</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rHtZ0-N4xN8" width="420"></iframe></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>~ </b></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Judy</b>, <b>Judy, Judy</b>...No holiday would be complete without hearing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" at least once. Here's Judy singing to her children, Lorna and Joey, in 1963 on the 'Christmas Show' for her CBS TV program...</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0z2VdCEhZ1Q" width="420"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>~</b><b> A Holiday Movie</b>: The Mitchell Leisen directed, Preston Sturges penned, yuletide classic <i>Remember the Night</i> (1940), starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck - all one hour and 33 minutes of it...</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2b2GwpHxJhM" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Holidays!</span></div>

The Lady Eve offers a blogful of holiday cheer this year. Here's what's under the tree... ~ Two Icons Singing: Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra sing "White Christmas" on a December 1957 TV special... ~ A Festive Romp From the 1970s: Kenneth More and Alb…

Kick your cares down the stairs...and come to Holiday Inn (1942)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSkg-ylDQ31AzYLvKQmt2NpS5zTIvFWdb1b-3tQl5BIJ1uqrf4x5N6Or2aHaBffta6y_JHbUUeBoZpI0dbhj9Lg4pqWAyWvntTAOeP5Cnc_9pmoEVf1flZg8ousM1pBiy7JcZSqbWdtjPv/s1600/1+holiday+inn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSkg-ylDQ31AzYLvKQmt2NpS5zTIvFWdb1b-3tQl5BIJ1uqrf4x5N6Or2aHaBffta6y_JHbUUeBoZpI0dbhj9Lg4pqWAyWvntTAOeP5Cnc_9pmoEVf1flZg8ousM1pBiy7JcZSqbWdtjPv/s1600/1+holiday+inn.jpg" /></a></div><br /><strong>Holiday Inn</strong> (1942) is famed as the film in which Bing Crosby first sang "White Christmas." I love its teaming of Crosby with Fred Astaire, their song and dance routines, the comedic rivalry between them, Irving Berlin's sensational music, the wintry New England scenery...everything about it.<br /><br />In this video review, New YorkTimes critic A.O. Scott discusses <strong>Holiday Inn</strong> - with film clips. He does talk about the "Abraham" number...but<em> doesn't </em>suggest censoring it. Click to watch...<br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iMtSqdRoagw?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iMtSqdRoagw?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Scott's review started with a clip of a clever Fred Astaire routine, his New Year's Eve dance "under the influence" with Marjorie Reynolds...click below to watch the entire sequence...<br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cszCAE6YfBY?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cszCAE6YfBY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />(I probably don't need to add: don't try this yourself!)

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Holiday Inn (1942) is famed as the film in which Bing Crosby first sang "White Christmas." I love its teaming of Crosby with Fred Astaire, their song and dance routines, the comedic rivalry between them, Irving Berlin's sensational music, the wintry …

A Blog Full of Gifts From Me to You...

Kick your cares down the stairs...and come to Holiday Inn (1942)

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