Christmas Holiday (1944)
With Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf, Gale Sondergaard, Gladys George, Joseph Crehan, David Bruce, Oliver Blake
Directed by Robert Siodmak, Felix Jackson
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.
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