White Christmas

Every year around this time. White Christmas has to be watched. I love this film:

After leaving the Army after W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General. 

Great Quotes:

Phil: I want you to get married. I want you to have nine children. And if you only spend five minutes a day with each kid, that's forty-five minutes, and I'd at least have time to go out and get a massage or something.  

Phil: Give me one reason, one good reason, why we should spend our last two hours in Florida looking at the sisters of Freckle-Face Haynes, the dog-faced boy.
Bob: Let's just say we're doing it for an old pal in the army.
Phil: Well, it's not good, but it's a reason. 

 Phil: It's cozier, isn't it? Boy, girl, boy, girl. 

 Judy: We're booked for the holidays.
Phil: Vermont, huh?
Judy: Oh, Vermont should be beautiful this time of year, with all that snow.
Phil: Yeah, you know something... Vermont should be beautiful this time of year, with all that snow.
Judy: That's what I just said.
Phil: We seem to be getting a little mixed up.
Judy: Maybe it's the music.
Phil: Maybe it isn't only the music. 

 Bob: Miss Haynes, if you're ever under a falling building and someone offers to pick you up and carry you to safety, don't think, don't pause, don't hesitate for a moment, just spit in his eye.
Betty: What did that mean?
Bob: It means we're going to Vermont. 

 Phil: How much is "wow"?
Bob: It's right in between, uh, "ouch" and "boing".
Phil: Wow! 

 Phil: We like to take care of our friends.
Betty: But we're practically strangers!
Phil: Uh, we like to take care of that too.
Betty: But I don't understand. Why are you doing this? I mean, what's in it for you?
Phil: Forty-five minutes all to myself. 

 Judy: [to Phil] You are not exactly Superman, but you are awfully available. 

 My favourite bits from White Christmas:

-The whole musical start up of old films

-That Bing Crosby reminds me of my late grandad

-Sisters song and the blue fluffy fans

-Judy and Bettys dressing gowns

-The waterside bar

-The snow scene on the train

-Pinetree Vermont - is that not the most gorgeous sounding place to stay at christmas?

-Sandwiches and buttermilk round the fire

-Counting your blessings:

 When I'm worried and I can't sleep
I count my blessings instead of sheep
And I fall asleep counting my blessings
When my bankroll is getting small
I think of when I had none at all
And I fall asleep counting my blessings

I think about a nursery and I picture curly heads
And one by one I count them as they slumber in their beds
If you're worried and you can't sleep
Just count your blessings instead of sheep
And you'll fall asleep counting your blessings



-When General Waverly comes in to the room and everyone starts clapping

-Opening the big doors to see snow and a horse and sleigh

-The gorgeous red christmas outfits - i so wanted one as a little girl, i had a white hand muff which i loved,

-The cute little blonde ballerina

-I'm dreaming of a white christmas



xx


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