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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 a life of misery.
Christmas Holiday. 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.
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 ...
Spouse. Bertha Odenheimer (1933–1973; her death) Family. Curt Siodmak (brother) Robert Siodmak ( / siˈɒd.mæk /; 8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist [1] and for a series of films noir he made in the 1940s, such as The Killers (1946).
"White Christmas" Holiday Inn: Won 1944 "Swinging on a Star" Going My Way: Won 1945 "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" Here Come the Waves: Nominated 1945 "Aren't You Glad You're You" The Bells of St. Mary's: Nominated 1946 "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" Blue Skies: Nominated 1951 "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" Here Comes the Groom ...
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944 and popularized in the 1949 film Neptune's Daughter. While the lyrics make no mention of a holiday, it is commonly regarded as a Christmas song owing to its winter theme.
Christmas in Nazi Germany. Christmas presents for the poor in 1935. The celebration of Christmas in Nazi Germany included attempts by the regime to bring the Christian religious holiday into line with Nazi ideology. The Jewish origins of Jesus and the commemoration of his birth as the Jewish Messiah was troubling for some members of the Nazi ...
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.