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  2. Christmas Holiday - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Christmas Holiday (novel) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Herman J. Mankiewicz - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of works by W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia

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    Christmas Holiday: 1939: Heinemann: Novel Princess September and the Nightingale: 1939: Oxford University Press, Oxford Short story collection The Mixture as Before: 1940: Heinemann: Short story collection Up at the Villa: 1941: Heinemann: Novel The Hour Before the Dawn: 1942: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY Novel The Unconquered: 1944

  6. Robert Siodmak - Wikipedia

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    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).

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  7. List of Christmas films - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of holiday horror films - Wikipedia

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    Holiday(s) Notes Ref. 1944 Christmas Holiday: United States Christmas 1944 The Curse of the Cat People: United States Christmas 1945 Dead of Night: United Kingdom

  9. W. Somerset Maugham on stage and screen - Wikipedia

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    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.

  10. Dean Harens - Wikipedia

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    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.

  11. Great Snowstorm of 1944 - Wikipedia

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    The Great Snowstorm of 1944 [a] 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. The areas most affected included northeastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, West ...