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Born Yesterday

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Born Yesterday
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NR,1hr 43min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1950
Director:
George Cukor
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Broderick Crawford, Judy Holliday, William Holden  ...more
Synopsis: Garson Kanin's Broadway hit was transferred to the screen with only a few passing nods to the stricter censorship required by films. Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her portrayal of Billie Dawn, a strident, dim-bulbed ex-chorus girl who is the mistress of millionaire junk tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford). In Washington to put a few senators and congressmen in his pocket (the better to lay the groundwork for an illegal cartel), the rude-and-crude Brock realizes that the unrefined Billie will ... Full Synopsis
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Richard Gilliam, AMG Review
Born Yesterday is remembered today primarily for Judy Holliday's Oscar-winning comic performance. At its release, though, it was considerably more controversial, generating protests that proclaimed the film Communist-sympathizing for suggesting that American politics could be corrupt. The core of the story is largely borrowed from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with Broderick Crawford as the authority ... Full Review
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Broderick Crawford
Harry Brock
Judy Holliday
Billie Dawn
William Holden
Paul Verrall
Howard St. John
Jim Devery
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