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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 ...
Print. 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. There he meets a White Russian émigré Lydia, now working as a prostitute.
Christmas Holiday (1944) — Writer; The Enchanted Cottage (1945) — Writer; The Spanish Main (1945) — Writer (screenplay) A Woman's Secret (1949) — Writer (screenplay), producer; The Pride of St. Louis (1952) — Writer; Lux Video Theatre (TV series episode, 1955): The Enchanted Cottage — Writer (original screenplay)
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.
"Christmas Holiday" August – November 1939 Redbook "Proof Reading as an Avocation" 14 October 1939: Publishers Weekly "Classic Books of America" 6 January 1940: The Saturday Evening Post "The Villa on the Hill" February – April 1940 Redbook "Britain Views the French Navy" July 1940: The Living Age "The Refugee Ship" September 1940: Redbook
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.
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.
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.
Christmas Holiday (1944), starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly, based on the novel of the same name. The Hour Before the Dawn (1944), starring Veronica Lake, based on the novel of the same name. Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946). Unauthorized film version of "Miss Thompson" with an all-black cast, directed by Spencer Williams.
The Great Snowstorm of 1944 was a distruptive winter storm that brought high winds and between 12 and 30 inches (30 and 76 centimetres) of snow to the eastern Great Lakes region of North America between Sunday, December 10, and Wednesday, December 13, 1944.