DR SINGDAW I have been studying that picture of WHITE CHRISTMAS.....what is Lina Lamont doing in this production.....she seems to be standing on the right.....
Hmmm...maybe that's what WHITE CHRISTMAS is missing--a villain!
In the midst of WWII, a washed-up Lina Lamont had wound up as a USO chorine who got her claws into General Waverly one night in Ensino. It seems that the General, feeling a little sorry for himself, had a bit too much of the local vino and let himself get hitched to an equally inebriated Miss Lamont. An untimely air attack then separated the two, neither of which recalled the marriage ceremony the next morning.
Years later, Lina receives a phone call from her sister, Doris, who tells her about being forced to give up her holiday vacation to perform at some old coot of a retired general's ski lodge. And later that night, as she watches the Ed Harrison Show, it all comes back to Lina. She arrives at the inn on Christmas Eve, marriage license in hand. "Half of this dump is legally mine which means that I have a say in what goes on around here!"
She forces Bob and Phil to give her the still missing Betty's parts in the show. "If anyone's gonna lip sink around here it's gonna be me 'cause I got the experience! If you don't like it, you can pack up your show and leave!"
A half hour before curtain, Betty arrives from New York and is heart broken to find that Bob had replaced her so rapidly. She hops back into the cab and heads back to the train station.
Lina continues to throw her weight around by replacing Judy with Doris for the "Sisters" number. "We're the two sisters here, ain't we?"
Bob and Phil grow frantic as they see their show spin out of their control and about to flop. As curtain time approaches and the snow beings to fall, Phil snaps his fingers and says, "I got an idea!"...
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Who can come up with a slam-bang happy ending here?
