Born Yesterday - 1950


Born Yesterday

Director: George Cukor
Actors: Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford, Howard St. John, Frank Otto
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD

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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.6
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Born Yesterday

Format: Black White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Theatrical Release Date: December 26, 1950
Release Date: February 15, 2000

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Born Yesterday

Product Description
Holliday plays the \dumb blonde" girlfriend of a crooked junk dealer who would do anything to fulfill his social ambitions. He hires Holden to give her a crash course in culture.

Amazon.com
Judy Holliday's Oscar-winning performance is just one of the reasons to watch this terrific 1950 comedy, which is equally acclaimed for its deliciously witty screenplay (based on Garson Kanin's long-running Broadway hit) and George Cukor's silky-smooth direction. Holliday plays Billie Dawn, the floozie fiancée of a junk-dealer millionaire (Broderick Crawford), who is trying to make a good impression among the Washington, D.C., politicos he's hoping to influence.

To ensure that Billie gets properly "culturefied," the corrupt Crawford hires a D.C. journalist (William Holden) to give the seemingly dim-witted blonde a crash course in politics, history, literature, and--you guessed it--true love. Billie's not nearly as dumb as she seems, of course, and before long she's graduated from pawn to sassy queen on her husband's political chessboard.p Watching IBorn Yesterday/I is a crash course in itself--an object lesson in how low American screen comedy has fallen from these delirious heights.

The movie's funny even when there's a pause in the golden dialogue, such as when Holliday tests Crawford's patience in a sublimely comedic round of gin rummy. There's not a single scene in which Holliday (reprising her Broadway role) isn't simply perfect, the cogs turning smoothly behind her dim expressions and coarsely high-pitched squeal. Suave as ever, Holden is her match made in heaven, and Crawford is a brute who's too stupid to be genuinely malevolent.

Put 'em all together and you've got a timeless classic, so flawless that a 1993 remake was instantly doomed to pale comparisons



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