Christmas Holiday
Robert Siodmak, 1944
Starring Deanna Durbin, then Hollywood’s most popular singing star, this masterly melodrama, possibly the most extraordinary of all Christmas movies, was adapted by Herman Mankiewicz from a Somerset Maugham novel and directed by Robert Siodmak. A newly commissioned army officer flying to San Francisco is diverted to New Orleans and spends Christmas with a beautiful demimondaine (Durbin). During midnight mass she breaks down and proceeds to recall her marriage to sleazy Gene Kelly, now serving life for murder
The Guardian
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