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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. [2] 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.
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (/ ˈ m æ ŋ k ə w ɪ t s / MANG-kə-wits; November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941).
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.
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.
3 Godfathers (1948) - Director: John Ford - IMDb user rating: 7.0 - Metascore: 82 - Runtime: 106 minutes - Release date: Dec. 1, 1948. Oscar-winning director John Ford directed this big-screen ...
Trailer for Christmas Holiday (1944) Harens acted summer stock before debuting on Broadway in The Talley Method in 1941. [3] His first film appearance came at the age of 24, in 1944's Christmas Holiday. [4] He appeared in seven movies throughout his career, although never in a starring role.
Young Karl-Bertil dreams of becoming a modern-day Robin Hood. He spends the Christmas holiday working at the Post Office and makes sure that some of the Christmas gifts to the wealthy people are distributed to the less fortunate of the society. A Cosmic Christmas: 1977: Three aliens visit Earth to learn about the true meaning of Christmas.
Christmas Holiday: 1944 Robert Siodmak: Tristan und Isolde [10] Humoresque: 1946 Jean Negulesco: Tristan und Isolde, arranged by Franz Waxman. [9] A Foreign Affair: 1948 Billy Wilder: Lohengrin, overture [11] Unfaithfully Yours: 1948 Preston Sturges: Tannhäuser [9] The Blue Gardenia: 1953 Fritz Lang "Tristan und Isolde" [12] Abismos de pasión ...