Continuity mistake: After their first number, Ted and Jim are in their dressing room, Jim is buttoning his left cuff and then pulls down his right sleeve. In the next shot, he does this again.
Holiday Inn (1942)
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Starring: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale
Continuity mistake: Fred Astaire throws a box of candy over the back of a park bench. It lands on the ground, and the next shots show the candy appearing and disappearing.
Continuity mistake: When Bing Crosby sends a telegram to Fred Astaire it is dated Dec 25, even though it is revealed a few moment later in the flower shop scene that it is Christmas Eve.
Trivia: The Holiday Inn chain of motels, founded after World War II was named after this movie, not the other way around.
Trivia: This movie débuts two famous Irving Berlin songs, both of which became the title songs for later movies starring one or other of the lead men from this movie - "White Christmas" in 1954 was led by Bing Crosby, and "Easter Parade" in 1948 with Fred Astaire.
Jim Hardy: For that kinda of money you oughta be able to go by way o' Medicine Hat.
Linda Mason: What would you like?
Danny Reed: Orchids, the finest you've got.
Linda Mason: Corsage?
Danny Reed: No, no. A dozen, loose, looking like they don't care.
Danny Reed: How'd he get that far in five minutes?
Ted Hanover: The lady must have been willing.
Danny Reed: The world can't do this to us.
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