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List Price: $24.99 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 95
Released: November 3, 2009 |
| Our Price: $14.48 |
| Used Price: $34.31 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
DVD Features:
- Backstage Stories from White Christmas
- Rosemary's Old Kentucky Home
- Bing Crosby: Christmas Crooner
- Danny Kaye: Joy to the World
- Irving Berlin's White Christmas
- White Christmas: From Page to Stage
- Commentary by Rosemary Clooney
- White Christmas A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Theatrical Re-Release Trailer
White Christmas (Anniversary Edition) Reviews:
White Christmas 
2009-12-23 - The movie White Christmas is colorful and tuneful. Our family loved it. We had just seen the National Tour and still enjoyed the movie. It's one of those very needed "feel good" movies.
Jill Eliot
The Best Things Happen While You're Watching!
2009-12-21 - Director Michael Curtiz, and writers Norman Krasna and Norman Panama, and Melvin Frank present us with a sentimentally simplistic tale of two showbusiness partners and the performing sisters they encounter.
While stationed somewhere in Europe during World War II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis(the legendary Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye), entertain fellow soldiers in General Thomas F. Waverly's(Dean Jagger) unit amid the ruins of a city, bringing a brief moment of delight to the battle-hardened and battle-weary.But shell fire brings the festivities to an end.
When Phil rescues Bob from a collapsing wall, denting his shoulder in the process, Bob offers to reciprocate, and ends up agreeing to form a stage act with Phil.
Their postwar lives are filled with nightclub acts, and the ultimate acquisition of their own television show.
As a favor to an Army buddy (Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer of "Little Rascals/Our Gang" fame, who appears only in a photo)the two got to Florida as talent scouts to see the act of his two sisters, Judy and Betty Haynes( the incomparable Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney) at a nightclub called Novello's (Herb Vigrian). The men are attracted to each of the sisters, but the subsequent sit-down session, there is friction between Bob and Betty, and attraction between Phil and Judy, which is more than coherently expressed in one of my favorite dance numbers, "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing", which is still beguiling to watch all these years later.
Soon, the sisters must bolt to avoid confrontation with the Sheriff( James Parnell) for accidentally burning a hole in the carpet of their rented residence.Bob and Phil cover for them onstage in an uproarious moment.Bob's exasperation over this increases later when he finds that the Haynes Sisters have commandeered their sleeping quarters on a Northward bound train. But things are smoothed over in the dining quarters with a meal and a song.
Phil's scheming, resulting from his desire to follow Judy, results in all four ending up in Vermont when Bob had originally wanted to return to New York. They all end up at an inn where they are reunited with none other than General Waverly, the struggling innkeeper who lives with his housekeeper, Emma( Mary Wickes) and his granddaughter, Susan (Anne Whitfield).
The four entertainers pool their resources and talents (in addition to hiring more dancers) to help bring business to the inn with a splashy number which might be considered politically incorrect by today's standards. But a later number, "Choreography" was amusing, and highly suitable for both Danny Kaye's comic abilities and Vera-Ellen's fairly-like grace.
Bob and Betty gradually warm to each other amid the lovely tune, "Count Your Blessings".
But at one point, Phil's and Judy's constant scheming goes awry, resulting in misunderstandings, and Betty's departure for a job in New York, where a pursuing Bob uses his connections to make an appeal that will help General Waverly.
Amid a lively score by Irving Berlin, we encounter a young George Chakiris(later to gain fame as "West Side Story's" Bernardo) in a cameo role,and bask in a little harmless holiday hokum with a lot of warmth, all in a film that has earned the right to be deemed a classic.
White Christmas
2009-12-19 - This movie has always been a favorite of mine so I finally decieded to buy it so I won't have to wait until it is on the TV. Will watch it for years to come. Good quality, music great (if you like to oldies)and I love the dancing. Good all around movie.
White Christmas 
2009-12-19 - I'm sure the product is fine (haven't opened it yet because it's a gift) but I'm sad that I got it over the internet now because I saw it at Walmart for 4 dollars cheaper! (I thought since it was an anniversary edition that it wasn't available in the stores so I didn't look-my mistake).
White Christmas is a Timeless Classic
2009-12-13 - I always looked for this movie on TV as the holidays approached and finally decided to purchase it so I could watch it whenever I wanted. It is a timeless classic of 1950's nostolgia and holiday cheer, a great movie.
