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A young femme-fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.A young femme-fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.A young femme-fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
Eddie Acuff
- Steve
- (uncredited)
Fred Aldrich
- Bartender
- (uncredited)
Frank Austin
- Jury Member
- (uncredited)
John Barton
- Concertgoer
- (uncredited)
Vangie Beilby
- Wedding Guest
- (uncredited)
John Berkes
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Oliver Blake
- Defense Attorney
- (uncredited)
Charles Cane
- Joe
- (uncredited)
Ruth Cherrington
- Concertgoer
- (uncredited)
James Conaty
- Concert Patron
- (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
- Jury Member
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaBecause of the Hays Code, screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz changed the setting from a Paris brothel to a nightclub in New Orleans, and changed the main character from a prostitute to a more ambiguous nightclub singer and hostess, in adapting the 1939 novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham.
- GoofsAfter Robert breaks out of jail, the newspaper spells his last name as "Mannette". However, the correct spelling is "Manette".
- Quotes
Simon Fenimore: [to Charles] The planes are all grounded, the trains won't do you any good, and you're too big for me to carry on piggyback.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Go, Johnny, Go! (1959)
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One of Deanna Durbin & Robert Siodmak's best
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.
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- Also known as
- W. Somerset Maugham's Christmas Holiday
- Filming locations
- St Vibiana RC cathedral, Main St, Los Angeles, California, USA(midnight mass scene)
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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