Questions about the movie "White Christmas" (1954)

[debodun]

If you've ever seen this movie which is usually aired around Christmas:
It was essential to the plot, but not very realistic in the movie "White Christmas" that:
1) Emma blabbed false information based on just a part of a conversation she overheard.
2) Betty did not bother to confirm it.
3) Why Betty singled Bob out for her snit when Phil was in on it, too, and
4) why she cared that much about Waverly when she hardly knew him?

 

[Aunt Bea]

Always a holiday favorite.

 

[debodun]

Dean Jagger, playing General Waverly, was portrayed as "the old man". In reality Bing Crosby was 6 months older than Dean.

 

[Ted01]

Cast​

Bing Crosby as Bob Wallace and Danny Kaye as Phil Davis

• Bing Crosby as Bob Wallace
• Danny Kaye as Phil Davis
• Rosemary Clooney as Betty Haynes
• Vera-Ellen as Judy Haynes
• Dean Jagger as Major General Tom Waverly
• Mary Wickes as Emma Allen
• John Brascia as John/Johnny, Judy Haynes' dance partner
• Anne Whitfield as Susan Waverly, granddaughter

 

[jujube]

Dean Jagger, playing General Waverly, was portrayed as "the old man". In reality Bing Crosby was 6 months older than Dean.

"The Old Man" was a term of endearment among military personnel toward their top leader.