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- 1942
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
- 1942
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
Summary At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.
Directed By: Mark Sandrich, Robert Allen
- 1942
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
- 1942
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
Holiday Inn
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Summary At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.
Directed By: Mark Sandrich, Robert Allen
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
70
55% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
70
55% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Mark Sandrich's musical, written and scored by Irving Berlin, is a stone-cold festive classic. [07 Dec 2018, p.35]
Loaded with a wealth of songs, it's meaty, not too kaleidoscopic and yet closely knit for a compact 100 minutes of tiptop filmusical entertainment. The idea is a natural, and Irving Berlin has fashioned some peach songs to fit the highlight holidays.
Mark Sandrich, director and producer, has taken the inevitable melange of plot and production numbers and so deftly pulled them together that one hardly knows where the story ends and a song begins—a neat trick if you can do it.
Call it old-fashioned or old Hollywood fluff, Holiday Inn is a sweet, pleasant slice of another time in pop entertainment.
Dowdy and thin.
The Irving Berlin score, including 'Easter Parade' and 'Let's Say It with Firecrackers' (which gives Fred his best moment) makes up for the thin story about a love triangle at the eponymous vacation resort.
Music is definitely the key here, as the plot is distinctly thin, and the pairing of Crosby and Astaire, does not work as well as it could have.
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Production Company
Paramount Pictures
Release Date Sep 4, 1942
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating Approved
Tagline WHAT A HOLIDAY! 11 new Irving Berlin songs! Bing at his singing best! Fred Astaire with 2 dancing partners! (Print Ad-Pawtucket Times, ((Pawtucket, RI)) 28 October 1942)
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations