Are you looking for a New Year’s movie? How about a Christmas film? Perhaps a story with a Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving, or Independence Day scene? There’s probably only one movie that fits all these criteria, and it’s “Holiday Inn” from 1942.
This holiday classic stars Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire in their first of two film pairings. The Paramount Pictures film was conceived by Irving Berlin. He not only wrote the words and music for all the movie’s songs but also came up with the original premise for the story. According to IMDb, the composer got the idea for a play about multiple holidays after he wrote the song “Easter Parade” in 1933. That idea ultimately was the basis for this film.
