A young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the wealthy man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
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Title: Christmas Holiday (1944)
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| Deanna Durbin | ... |
Jackie Lamont /
Abigail Martin
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Robert Manette
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Richard Whorf | ... |
Simon Fenimore
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Dean Harens | ... |
Lt. Charles Mason
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Valerie De Merode
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Mrs. Manette
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A young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the wealthy man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
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DURBIN in the screen's greatest woman's role! See more »Certificate:
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Country:
USALanguage:
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30 June 1944 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
W. Somerset Maugham's Christmas Holiday See more »Company Credits
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Corporal: [to the soldiers] You are now about to become Officers of the Army of the United States.
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(uncredited)
Music by Richard Wagner
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"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 17, 1945 with Loretta Young as Jackie/Abigail, William Holden as Lt. Mason, and David Bruce as Robert Manette. See more »Goofs
After Robert breaks out of jail, the newspaper spells his last name as "Mannette", however the spelling of the last name in the end credits is "Manette". See more »Quotes
[first lines]Corporal: [to the soldiers] You are now about to become Officers of the Army of the United States.
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Selections from 'Tristan und Isolde'(uncredited)
Music by Richard Wagner
Played by orchestra in concert hall
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I was lucky enough to catch a rare screening of this never-on-video film at the Cinematheque here in Hollywood last night. It was very beautiful, moving even, with lovely black-&-white cinematography by Woody Bredell. Other users' comments to the contrary, Gene Kelly's role is most definitely not insignificant - he's the villain, for crying out loud! His genuinely complex and subtle performance is a real standout in a film filled with wonderful work by all of the actors. Gale Sondergaard, also, is clearly well-cast, too, as Kelly's mother; she may have been a little young for the role in real life, but that certainly doesn't come across in her portrayal of the stifling, weak-willed, coddling mother of a killer. Deanna Durbin, though always more of a performer than an actor per se, is more than convincing as a world-weary singer in a whorehouse (not a night club; though it's never explicitly identified as a house of ill repute, only the most boneheaded viewer would take it for anything else). Her tearful breakdown in the church during Christmas Eve mass (an exquisitely rendered set piece, full of deep, soft shadows and luminous pools of communal light) is genuinely touching and heartfelt. And the film's final moments, if accepted unironically (as they were intended), are truly poetic and uplifting.