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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 ...
Christmas Holiday is a novel by the British writer Somerset Maugham, first published in 1939 by Heinemann. Just before the outbreak of the Second World War a naïve young Englishman travels to Paris to broaden his mind.
Herman J. Mankiewicz. Herman Jacob Mankiewicz ( / ˈmæŋkəwɪts /; November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Both Mankiewicz and Welles went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film. Mankiewicz was previously a Berlin ...
Following the critical success of Phantom Lady, Siodmak directed Christmas Holiday (1944) with Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly (Hans J. Salter received an Oscar nomination for best music). Beginning with this film, his work in Hollywood attained the stylistic and thematic characteristics that are evident in his later noirs.
Christmas Holiday: 1944: On Christmas Eve, a New Orleans nightclub singer tells a soldier the tragic tale of her marriage to a Creole scoundrel. Christmas Present: 1986: An Italian film about a group of former friends that meet again after a very long time, on Christmas Eve, with the intent of ripping off a rich industrialist in a game of Poker.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. [1]
Trailer for Christmas Holiday (1944) Harens acted summer stock before debuting on Broadway in The Talley Method in 1941. His first film appearance came at the age of 24, in 1944's Christmas Holiday. He appeared in seven movies throughout his career, although never in a starring role.
By 1944 the movement to remove Christian influences from Christmas lessened as the government concentrated more on the war effort. In 1944 civil celebrations of Christmas marked the festival as a day of remembrance for Germany's war dead.
December 26, 1944 (Tuesday) The Battle of Leyte ended in decisive Allied victory. The Battle of Garfagnana (Known to the Germans as Operation Winter Storm and the Christmas offensive to the Italians) beings.
He began his film directing career with the 1942 short subject March On, America and the 1944 feature film Blonde Fever . He directed a number of television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, including early episodes of Gunsmoke, the entire second season of My Three Sons and 67 episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies.