Holiday Inn (Paramount). This first cinema conjunction of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire is a box-office bargainan effervescent musical, spiced with 13 pleasant Irving Berlin melodies. It is whipped into expert froth by Producer-Director Mark Sandrich, maker of most of the Astaire-Rogers musicals.
Few cinemactors appear to take more pains than Hoofer Astaire, less pains than Crooner Crosby. Result: Crosby's easy, casual banter is just the right foil for Astaire's precision acrobatics, his wry, offbeat humor.
Five years ago Holiday Inn was a musical note in Songsmith Berlin's melodious mind. He wanted...
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