Christmas Holiday

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Christmas Holiday

Christmas Holiday movie poster
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Produced by Felix Jackson
Written by Herman J. Mankiewicz
W. Somerset Maugham
Starring Deanna Durbin
Gene Kelly
Richard Whorf
Cinematography Elwood Bredell
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) June 7, 1944 (U.S. release)
Running time 93 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

Christmas Holiday is a 1944 drama directed by Robert Siodmak. The black-and-white film noir is based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Producer Felix Jackson chose this project as a dramatic vehicle for his then wife, Deanna Durbin. The screenplay was adapted by Herman J. Mankiewicz, who counted it among his 40s successes of which he was most proud. Gene Kelly and Deanna Durbin are cast against type in this sordid and dark film. Kelly, soon to become one of MGM's leading musical stars, plays a charming yet murderous cad, while Durbin, usually the girl next door in Universal musicals, plays a naif who falls for him and sticks with him even knowing he's a killer. Gale Sondergaard is wonderfuly cast as Kelly's tyrannical mother. Music director Hans Salter earned an Academy Award nomination. Although the film was a box office success for Durbin, she was criticised for having tarnished her trademark persona playing a dance-hall "hostess" (aka a prostitute). "Christmas Holiday" is considered one of the bleakest noirs of the 1940s, and one of Siodmak's most personally realized films.

Dean Harens and Deanna Durbin in Christmas Holiday
Dean Harens and Deanna Durbin in Christmas Holiday


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