Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
Deanna Durbin
as Jackie Lamont / Abigail Martin
Gene Kelly
as Robert Manette
Richard Whorf
as Simon Fenimore
Dean Harens
as Charles Mason
Gladys George
as Valerie de Merode
Gale Sondergaard
as Mrs. Manette
David Bruce
as Gerald Tyler
Ruth Cherrington
as
Minor Watson
as Townsend
Neal Dodd
as Minister
John Chard
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 Hare...