BORN YESTERDAY is a very fine film,it stars JUDY HOLIDAY, WILLIAM HOLDEN and BRODRICK CRAWFORD, JUDY HOLIDAYS CHARACTOR in the film is that of a dumb blonde,she is the mistress of a (he thinks)important man.
BRODRICK CRAWFORD, is the man he deals in scrap metal and has become a millionair,he ... Read review
Judy Holliday (The Marrying Kind) won the 1950 Best Actress Oscar for her brilliant and ... more
funny role as Billie Dawn, the dumb blonde girlfriend of Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford - All The King's Men), a corrupt millionaire junk dealer. Brock, a man with...
Born Yesterdaywas the box-office comedy hit of 1950 and won a Best Actress Oscar for the ... more
exceptional Judy Holliday, recreating her long-running Broadway triumph as Billie Dawn, the quintessential dumb blonde who finally gets herself some smarts. The fi...
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Judy Holliday (The Marrying Kind) won the 1950 Best Actress Oscar for her brilliant and ... more
funny role as Billie Dawn, the dumb blonde girlfriend of Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford - All The King's Men), a corrupt millionaire junk dealer. Brock, a man with social ambitions and a willingness to do anything to fulfil them, is embarrassed by Billie's crass behaviour and lack of social sophistication. So he arranges for her to take a crash course in culture from a young journalist (William Holden - The Bridge on the River Kwai). Billie blossoms under his kind tutelage and becomes increasingly aware of her role as a pawn in Brock's crooked business deals. Brock is surprised and outraged when Billie suddenly refuses to cooperate any longer. This is a classic comedy with an unforgettable performance.
BORN YESTERDAY stars screen favourite Melanie Griffith (Working Girl) as Billie Dawn, a ... more
Las Vegas showgirl whose lack of sophistication makes for some hilariously embarrassing moments in the Washington, D.C., social scene. That's when her overbearing boyfriend (John Goodman - The Babe) hires a well-educated and handsome journalist (Don Johnson - Guilty As Sin) to smarten her up. The improbable romance that blossoms between Billie and her tutor turns all of their lives - and Washington, D.C. - upside down!
Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news. Floods. Foot and mouth. The ... more
disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine MacCann. The arrival of Gordon Brown. Terror attacks in Glasgow. And Gordon Burn artist journalist and true-crime author has taken the events from this bleak summer and turned them into a novel about the way news is made and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. This is a daring and thrilling novel from one of the most astute observers of celebrity and tragedy. It is sure to make the headlines itself for the way it is written and for the controversial subjects he tackles. In "Born Yesterday" Gordon Burn creates a whole new way of writing a novel and makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us.
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The story of a Las Vegas showgirl whose lack of sophistication worries her boyfriend. He ... more
fears her ignorance will ruin his business opportunities. He hires an intelligent journalist to educate her in the ways of the world but she soon learns there is more to life than mink coats and diamond rings.
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Advantages: delightful film to watch, good acting as well. Disadvantages: none
BORN YESTERDAY is a very fine film,it stars JUDY HOLIDAY, WILLIAM HOLDEN and BRODRICK CRAWFORD, JUDY HOLIDAYS CHARACTOR in the film is that of a dumb blonde,she is the mistress of a (he thinks)important man.
BRODRICK CRAWFORD, is the man he deals in scrap metal and has become a millionair,he wants to educate his mistress, so he asks WILLIAM HOLDEN to do the job for him.
She really knows nothing but how to paint her nails and do her ... ...ways very like the film EDUCATING RITA of course they fall in love and she becomes very educated it is a great film and I can recomend it, the acting is superb,I have watched this film many times and you see some thing in it differently each time you watch it ...ITS GREAT. ... more
BORN YESTERDAY is a very fine film,it stars JUDY HOLIDAY, WILLIAM HOLDEN and BRODRICK CRAWFORD, JUDY HOLIDAYS CHARACTOR in the film is that of a dumb blonde,she is the mistress of a (he thinks)important man. BRODRICK CRAWFORD, is the man he deals in scrap metal and has become a millionair,he wants to educate his mistress, so he asks WILLIAM HOLDEN to do the job for him. She really knows nothing but how to paint her nails and do her hair....the making of the JUDY HOLIDAY charactor is in some ways very like the film EDUCATING RITA of course they fall in love and she becomes very educated it is a great film and I can recomend it, the acting is superb,I have watched this film many times and you see some thing in it differently each time you watch it ...ITS GREAT.
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DVD Description
Judy Holliday reprises her Broadway role in this fresh and entertaining comedy based on Garson Kanin's play, directed by George Cukor. Although reputedly not the first choice for the film role, Holliday won an Academy Award for her priceless portrayal of a "dumb but savvy" blonde who outsmarts the man who attempts to control her. Junk tycoon Harry Crock (Broderick Crawford) uses his ignorant and naive mistress, ex-chorus girl Billy Dawn (Holliday), as a front for his shady deals but finds himself embarrassed to travel in Washington society with his illiterate paramour. Crock hires a journalist (William Holden) who agrees to educate Billy. Holliday is delightful in her transformation to a woman of intellect and culture; the Pygmalion-like story is filled with laughs and sexual innuendo. Billy is an apt pupil and the brutish Crock is the loser in the love game in this appealing, deft film.
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