---
title: 'Christmas Holiday (1944)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Robert Siodmak'
released: '1944-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 93
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/christmas-holiday-1944'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036711/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Christmas Holiday (1944)

1944 · 93 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Robert Siodmak](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-siodmak), [Felix Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/felix-jackson)
- **Producer:** [Felix Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/felix-jackson)
- **Screenplay:** [William Somerset Maugham](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-somerset-maugham), [Herman J. Mankiewicz](https://cinepixo.com/people/herman-j-mankiewicz)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Hans J. Salter](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-j-salter)
- **Director of Photography:** [Elwood Bredell](https://cinepixo.com/people/elwood-bredell)
- **Editor:** [Ted J. Kent](https://cinepixo.com/people/ted-j-kent)

## Cast

- [Joseph Crehan](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-crehan)
- [Deanna Durbin](https://cinepixo.com/people/deanna-durbin)
- [Oliver Blake](https://cinepixo.com/people/oliver-blake)
- [Gene Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-kelly)
- [David Bruce](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-bruce)
- [Gale Sondergaard](https://cinepixo.com/people/gale-sondergaard)
- [Gladys George](https://cinepixo.com/people/gladys-george)
- [Richard Whorf](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-whorf)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/christmas-holiday-1944
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