Christmas Holiday (1944)

Directed by

Felix Jackson, Robert Siodmak

Genre

drama film, film noir, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman marries a charming but unstable man who becomes violent. After he is arrested, she flees his family and begins singing in a New Orleans club under a new name.

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What happens

Christmas Holiday is a 1944 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly. 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. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score for Hans J. Salter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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