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Christmas Holiday is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Siodmak released in USA on 31 july 1944 with Deanna Durbin
Christmas Holiday (1944)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 31 july 1944
Length 1h33
OriginUSA
Themes Christmas films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Rating64%
Christmas Holiday is a 1944 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, and Richard Whorf. 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.
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Army officer Charlie Mason meets beautiful Maison Lafitte hostess Jackie (her real name is Abigail Manette). She tells him the story of the decline of her marriage with the charming but unbalanced Robert Manette. When her husband kills a bookie his controlling mother tries to cover it up. When he is caught she and her son blame Abigail. Abigail, feeling guilty when her husband receives a life sentence, becomes a bar hostess. Meanwhile, Robert escapes from jail and comes to see Abigail, but he is shot by police and dies in her arms, leaving her to start again with Charlie Mason.Actors
Deanna Durbin
(Jackie Lamont / Abigail Martin)
Gene Kelly
(Robert Manette)
Richard Whorf
(Simon Fenimore)
Gale Sondergaard
(Mrs. Manette)
Gladys George
(Valerie de Merode)
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