June 28, 1944 –
Universal Pictures released Robert Siodmak’s obscure film noir, Christmas Holiday starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly, on this date.
Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz changed the setting from a Paris brothel to a nightclub in New Orleans and the main character was changed from a prostitute to a more ambiguous nightclub singer and hostess, when adapting the 1939 novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, due to the Hays Code.
The Haus of Dcaligari 