Upon watching Holiday Inn...
Dec. 20th, 2006 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegee...Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds have absolutely NO chemistry whatsoever in the scenes after they first meet. They're cute enough when she comes to the Inn and they do the "I'm Linda Mason!" "Alright, you're a fake and I'm a phony" exchange. But once they sing "White Christmas" in the first reel, they're just not interesting together. But she's great with Fred Astaire (who, for a dancer, is a damn good character actor). I love his delivery on this:
Lila Dixon: [about Jim] He gets a look.
Ted Hanover: He always has that look! It's nothing. It has something to do with his...liver.
And this:
Ted Hanover: I like it here...with you and Linda.
He just sounds so deliciously smarmy on something on the last phrase.
I'm surprised they didn't do St. Patrick's Day--they do three February holdiays but nothing for March. I'd've traded Washington's Birthday out for that one--they could've had a theme of "I Just Got Lucky" or something.
*Sigh* What a great movie (minus the, uh, unfortunate staging of the first February holiday which is usually cut when it airs on TV). So cozily perfect for the holidays.
Lila Dixon: [about Jim] He gets a look.
Ted Hanover: He always has that look! It's nothing. It has something to do with his...liver.
And this:
Ted Hanover: I like it here...with you and Linda.
He just sounds so deliciously smarmy on something on the last phrase.
I'm surprised they didn't do St. Patrick's Day--they do three February holdiays but nothing for March. I'd've traded Washington's Birthday out for that one--they could've had a theme of "I Just Got Lucky" or something.
*Sigh* What a great movie (minus the, uh, unfortunate staging of the first February holiday which is usually cut when it airs on TV). So cozily perfect for the holidays.
