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Christmas Holiday

Name: Christmas Holiday
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1944-06-17
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 6.5

★ 6,5 /10 (36 Votes)

1944 EN 93 min

Overview

A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.

Release date

17/06/1944

Votes

Popularity

1.7

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Genres

Crime Drama

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

93 min

Deanna Durbin

Jackie Lamont / Abigail Martin

Gene Kelly

Robert Manette

Richard Whorf

Simon Fenimore

Dean Harens

Charles Mason

Gladys George

Valerie de Merode

Gale Sondergaard

Mrs. Manette

David Bruce

Gerald Tyler

Eddie Acuff

Steve (uncredited)

Fred Aldrich

Bartender (uncredited)

Frank Austin

Jury Member (uncredited)

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John Barton

Concertgoer (uncredited)

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Vangie Beilby

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

John Berkes

Waiter (uncredited)

Oliver Blake

Defense Attorney (uncredited)

Charles Cane

Joe (uncredited)

Wheaton Chambers

Plane Passenger (uncredited)

Ruth Cherrington

Concertgoer (uncredited)

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James Conaty

Concert Patron (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

Jury Member (uncredited)

Joseph Crehan

Steve (uncredited)

Louise Currie

Stewardess (uncredited)

Richard Davies

Lieutenant (uncredited)

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Neal Dodd

Minister (uncredited)

Eddie Dunn

Jim (uncredited)

Jim Farley

Jury Member (uncredited)

Clyde Fillmore

Colonel (uncredited)

James Flavin

Policeman (uncredited)

John Hamilton

Jury Foreman (uncredited)

Robert Homans

Policeman (uncredited)

Arthur Stuart Hull

Jury Member (uncredited)

George Irving

Judge (uncredited)

Charles Jordan

Bailiff (uncredited)

Cy Kendall

Teddy Jordan (uncredited)

Joe Kirk

Airline Attendant (uncredited)

Lash LaRue

Man (uncredited)

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Perc Launders

Corporal (uncredited)

Frank Marlowe

Bellhop (uncredited)

Eric Mayne

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

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Harry Mayo

Concertgoer (uncredited)

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Charles McMurphy

Policeman (uncredited)

Charles Meakin

Juror (uncredited)

Robert Milasch

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

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Ralph Montgomery

Plane Passenger (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

Waiter (uncredited)

Cyril Ring

Jury Member (uncredited)

Paul Russell

Concertgoer (uncredited)

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Jack C. Smith

Jury Member (uncredited)

Edwin Stanley

Room Clerk (uncredited)

Larry Steers

Courtroom Attendant (uncredited)

Ellinor Vanderveer

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Minor Watson

Townsend (uncredited)

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Katherine Yorke

Clerk (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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Christmas Holiday (1944) Vacationing with the troubled and the forlorn. Christmas Holiday is directed by Robert Siodmak and adapted to screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz from the novel of the same name written by W. Somerset Maugham. It stars Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf, Dean Harens, Gale Sondergaard and Gladys George. Music is by Hans J. Salter and cinematography by Elwood Bredell. The title is a bit of a bum steer, the presence of Durbin and Kelly a splendid slice of red herring casting, and the written notices on the internet announce that the source material was water…

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Frank Loesser, Irving Berlin, Gene Kelly and a film called 'Christmas Holiday' does lead you to expect a decent doze of cheesy, breezy, snow-capped seasonal romance. Instead, we get something altogether different and I was pleasantly surprised. It all starts rather brutally as the loved-up 'Lt. Mason' (Dean Harens) is unceremoniously dumped by his fiancée on Christmas Eve, just as he is about to fly to San Francisco to propose. Despondent, he boards his plane only to have it diverted to New Orleans by a storm. Put up in an hotel for the night, he is befriended by a local journalist who in turn…

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