Rent Born Yesterday (1950)
3.8 of 5 from 105 ratings
1h 38min
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- Synopsis:
- Judy Holliday gives an unforgettable, Oscar-winning performance as Billie Dawn, the 'dumb blonde' girlfriend of corrupt millionaire junkyard tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford). A man with social ambitions, Harry is embarrassed by Billie's uncouth behaviour and lack of social refinement, so he sends her on a crash course in culture with young journalist Paul Verrall (William Holden). Billie proves to be an able student in lessons of life and love, whilst also becoming all too aware of her partner's crooked business dealings. Emboldened by her new education, she stands up to Harry and his bad ways.
- Actors:
- Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford, Howard St. John, Frank Otto, Larry Oliver, Barbara Brown, Grandon Rhodes, Claire Carleton, Chet Brandenburg, Charles Cane, Helen Eby-Rock, Mike Mahoney, Paul Marion, William Mays, John Morley, David Pardoll, Bhogwan Singh, Smoki Whitfield
- Directors:
- George Cukor
- Producers:
- S. Sylvan Simon
- Writers:
- Garson Kanin, Albert Mannheimer
- Others:
- Judy Holliday, Jean Louis
- Studio:
- Columbia Tristar
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
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- Awards:
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- Release Date:
- 21/01/2019
- Run Time:
- 98 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
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- Bonus:
- 'Yesterday Today', a newly filmed video appreciation by film critic Geoff Andrew
- Blonde Ambition, the academic Richard Dyer celebrates the Oscar-winning actress Judy Holliday Da na na... BUH-BOOMI, a new video essay on the film by critic David Cairns
- Image Gallery
- Original Trailer
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Reviews (2) of Born Yesterday
Terrific movie! - Born Yesterday review by SM
I laughed so much during this film...a sterling performance by Judy Holliday.....so skilled in her portrayal of a 'dumb blond'!
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Bille and Holliday - Born Yesterday review by CH
As usual with Garson Kanin and Geoge Cukor, here is elegance and style,. It is a mileu into which there enters a mobster who soon realises that his gal Billie Dawn (played by Judy Holliday) needs educating in a way that he himself is incapable of doing. And so, she is entrusted to a bespectacled William Holden and, along the way, has frequent recourse to a large dictionary which has a stand to itself.
For anybody familiar with the Pygmalion myth, the course of events is predictable enough. Feistily done, even if Billie's voice can be hard to take, here is diverting comedy a notch or two below the very best.
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