Christmas Holiday
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- This article is about the film titled "Christmas Holiday". For the Christian holiday, see Christmas.
| Christmas Holiday | |
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| Image:ChristmasHoliday1SDurbin.jpg Christmas Holiday movie poster | |
| Directed by | Robert Siodmak |
| Produced by | Felix Jackson |
| Written by | Herman J. Mankiewicz W. Somerset Maugham |
| Starring | Deanna Durbin Gene Kelly Richard Whorf |
| Cinematography | Elwood Bredell |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 7, 1944 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Christmas Holiday is a 1944 drama directed by Robert Siodmak. The black-and-white film noir is based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The adapted screenplay was written by Herman J. Mankiewicz. Gene Kelly and Deanna Durbin are cast against type in this dark film noir. Kelly, who went on to appear in bright musicals, plays a non-singing and non-dancing murderous man while Durbin, who usually played girl next door in family musicals, plays a frail who falls for him and sticks with him even knowing he's a killer. The film is considered one of the bleakest film noirs of the 1940s.
[edit] Main cast
- Deanna Durbin as Jackie Lamont/Abigail Martin
- Gene Kelly as Robert Monette
- Richard Whorf as Simon Fenimore
- Dean Harens as Charles Mason
- Gladys George as Valerie de Merode
- Gale Sondergaard as Mrs. Monette
- David Bruce as Gerald Tyler
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