Collections/June 2021

Starring Judy Holliday

Featuring a new introduction by critic Farran Smith Nehme Born one hundred years ago this month, Judy Holliday was a major star for only a decade, but the precious few screen performances she left behind are marvels of virtuoso comic timing and warmly human characterization. Having achieved renown on Broadway for her performance as the ditzy, squeaky-voiced Billie Dawn in Garson Kanin’s hit play Born Yesterday, Holliday was invited to reprise the role on-screen, becoming an overnight sensation and famously beating out both Bette Davis in All About Eve and Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard for the Academy Award for best actress. Noted for her real-life smarts, Holliday would spend her subsequent career tweaking, and often slyly subverting, the “dumb…

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