It need not snow on Christmas Day. The USA's fascination with a white Christmas dates back to 1942, when Bing Crosby first crooned the wistful song in the film Holiday Inn. Written by Irving Berlin, ...

“I asked Uncle Bing one time ... in front of the troops mirrors the opening scene of the 1954 movie “White Christmas,” when Crosby, playing a soldier on Christmas Eve 1944, sings the ...

unknown actor in a scene from the musical film 'White Christmas', 1954 ... the opening lines of “Snow.” 9) The laughable musical number “Sisters,” when Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye imitate ...

Bing Crosby ... a white Christmas in Britain may surprise you. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. It’s the fantasy festive image: snow on Christmas ...

He began his career at Lehman Brothers and went on to assume partner roles at Cranemere and Snow ... play "White Christmas" on the piano for everyone." Bing’s only daughter, Mary Crosby, was ...

Irving Berlin was a Jewish immigrant who loved America. As his 1938 song “God Bless America” suggests, he believed deeply in the nation’s potential for goodness, unity and global leadership. In 1940, ...

“To have an official white Christmas, you have to have at least an inch of snow on ... cue up the Bing Crosby and gift yourself one of those classic Norman Rockwell winter scene paintings.

Because if you're looking for a near-surefire way to get a white Christmas, you might want to head to Fairbanks, Alaska, which has seen snow on the ... when Bing Crosby crooned the wistful song ...

For soldiers in France listening to Bing Crosby sing "White ... front of the troops mirrors the opening scene of the 1954 movie "White Christmas," when Crosby, playing a soldier on Christmas ...

After Irving Berlin, left, penned 'White Christmas,' he pegged Bing Crosby as the ideal singer for ... horse-drawn sleighs crossed freshly fallen snow. It also imagined a future in which dark ...