SummaryAt 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
Written By:Claude Binyon, Elmer Rice, Irving Berlin, Ben Holmes, Bert Lawrence, Zion Myers, Francis Swann
Holiday Inn
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Generally Favorable
70
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8.1
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Mark Sandrich's musical, written and scored by Irving Berlin, is a stone-cold festive classic. [07 Dec 2018, p.35]
80
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.
80
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.
70
Call it old-fashioned or old Hollywood fluff, Holiday Inn is a sweet, pleasant slice of another time in pop entertainment.
60
Dowdy and thin.
60
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.
60
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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Apr 22, 2025
7
Es una película buena, algo gris. Es decir, yo soy alguien que ama el canto, pero cuando veo musicales no logro disfrutarlos en general. La buena noticia es que en esta película en específico hay mucho más canto, y es ahí donde brilla más la película cuando Crosby canta. Tiene una voz que influyó sin duda a Frank Sinatra, me lo recuerda mucho siempre, y aquí cuando canta es sublime, te olvidas de todo lo demás, como por ejemplo la trama, que es bastante olvidable, aunque la idea o premisa general de la cabaña está bien. Cuando bailan tap, lo siento, no es para mí, no me gusta. Eso sumado a que cuando eso sucede, aparecen los diálogos de un romance sin gusto, pues, queda a deber. Aun así, es un clásico navideño lindo.
Production Company:
- Paramount Pictures
Release Date:Sep 4, 1942
Duration:1 h 40 m
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




























