From an idea by Irving Berlin and featuring lots of great songs from him, Bing Crosby is top billed and rightly so: he is one of the movies great seemingly effortless actors, but the range of his expressions is immense, his singing some of the best you will hear (and I've sung with a lot of great singers - many 'ordinary' have fabulous voices). Fred is immensely good in many of his movies, and his dancing scenes are very enjoyable, though here he plays a slightly less likeable character than usual. I found the support acting of Marjorie Reynolds and even Louise Beavers drags this down; better actresses could have made this much more, though a 7/10 it is. And Walter Abel - who does ok - has the best line, when ordering orchids "loose and looking like they don't care".
Review of Holiday Inn
