AllStarPics Statistics

Galleries:

Pictures:

3,726,978

Comments:

14,680 [NEW]

You are here: Pics > Christmas Holiday Pics (24 pics of Christmas Holiday)

Post a Comment

Christmas Holiday Gene Kelly and Deanna Durbin

Christmas Holiday Pics

VIEW GALLERY

Christmas Holiday

VOTES:0

RATE

Christmas Holiday Snapshot

Release Year

1944

Tagline

DURBIN in the screen's greatest woman's role!

Plot Summary

A young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the wealthy man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.

Run Time

93 min

Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Genre

Film-Noir, Drama

Language

English

Keyword

Husband Wife Relationship, Christmas, Murder, Based On Novel

Movie Rating

Sound Mix

Mono

Colour

Black and White

Film Type

Feature

Film Class

Film Noir, Crime Drama

Themes

Assumed Identities, Crumbling Marriages, Hostage Situations, Treacherous Spouses, Haunted By the Past

Tones

Menacing, Ominous, Gritty, Atmospheric, Gloomy, Bleak, Tense, Stylized

Has Detailed Data (New)

10, 1, 2, 3

Count - Awards

Wikipedia Text

Christmas Holiday is a 1944 drama directed by Robert Siodmak. The black-and-white film noir is loosely based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Producer Felix Jackson chose this project as a dramatic vehicle for Deanna Durbin. The screenplay was adapted by Herman J. Mankiewicz, who counted it among his 40s successes of which he was most proud. Gene Kelly and Deanna Durbin are cast against type in this sordid and dark film. Kelly, soon to become one of MGM's leading musical stars, plays a charming yet murderous cad, while Durbin, usually the girl next door in Universal musicals, plays a naif who falls for him and sticks with him even knowing he's a killer. Gale Sondergaard is wonderfully cast as Kelly's tyrannical mother. Music director Hans Salter earned an Academy Award nomination. Although the film was a box office success for Durbin, she was criticised for having tarnished her trademark persona playing a dance-hall "hostess". "Christmas Holiday" is considered one of the bleakest noirs of the 1940s, and one of Siodmak's most personally realized films.

Release Date

28 June 1944

Country

USA

Country Of Origin

USA