Christmas Holiday
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. After he is arrested, the woman runs away from her husband's family, changes her name, and finds work as a singer in a New Orleans dive. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score for Hans J. Salter.
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| Directed by | Robert Siodmak |
| Screenplay by | Herman J. Mankiewicz |
| Based on | Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham |
| Produced by | Felix Jackson |
| Starring | Deanna Durbin Gene Kelly |
| Cinematography | Woody Bredell |
| Edited by | Ted J. Kent |
| Music by | Hans J. Salter |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | over $2 million |
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