Christmas Holiday
1944 film by Robert Siodmak, Felix Jackson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the film. For the Christian holiday, see Christmas. For the season, see Christmastide.
Christmas Holiday is a 1944 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly.[2] Based on the 1939 novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, the film is about a woman who marries a Southern aristocrat who inherited his family's streak of violence and instability and soon drags the woman into a life of misery. After he is arrested, the woman runs away from her husband's family, changes her name, and finds work as a singer in a New Orleans dive.[3] The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score for Hans J. Salter.
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Christmas Holiday | |
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Directed by | Robert Siodmak |
Screenplay by | Herman J. Mankiewicz |
Based on | Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham |
Produced by | Felix Jackson |
Starring | Deanna Durbin Gene Kelly |
Cinematography | Woody Bredell |
Edited by | Ted J. Kent |
Music by | Hans J. Salter |
Color process | Black and white |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | over $2 million[1] |
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