Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was not impressed: "..the use of VistaVision, which is another process of projecting on a wide, flat screen, has made it possible to endow White Christmas with a fine pictorial quality.
White Christmas was enormously popular with audiences, earning $12 million in theatrical rentals[REF] - $102.7 million in 2012 dollars, adjusted for inflation[REF] - making it the top moneymaker of 1954 by a wide margin.