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	Judy Holliday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Judy Holliday (June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965) was an American actress.
		Holliday made her Broadway debut on March 20, 1945, at the Belasco Theatre in Kiss Them for Me and was one of the recipients that year of the Clarence Derwent Award.
		In 1950, Holliday was the subject of an FBI investigaton looking into allegations that she was a Communist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judy_Holliday (538 words)

	Gerry Mulligan by Craig Hanley - Judy Holliday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Judy Holliday gained renown as an actress, not as a singer; yet she had a sweet, true, musical singing voice, an extension of her speaking one, as this newly-discovered recording, made late in her relatively short career, so poignantly reveals.
		Holliday's mother later claimed that she entered labor with Judy while watching Fannie Brice in a Ziegfeld show (on June 21, 1921), a sort of spiritual passing the torch from the great funny lady and tragedienne songstress of one generation to the next.
		Deep in to Holliday's adult life, they say, she was never able to recover from the blow to her psyche, which accounted for Holliday's lifelong failure to accept herself as the desirable and talented person she was to everyone else.
	www.gerrymulligan.info /m_holliday_judy.html (2919 words)

	Jewish Women in Comedy - Judy Holliday
		Judy's mother, whose parents emigrated from Russia-her father had made epaulets for the czar and died shortly after arriving in this country-grew up under the tutelage of a strong socialist mother and amid several brothers.
		Educated in New York City public schools, Holliday graduated from Julia Richman High School at the top of her class in January 1938, having already scored 172 on an IQ test when she was ten.
		Her life as a performer began, instead, after a vacation in the mountains where she met Adolph Green, the camp's "social director." With him, she was responsible for the formation of the Revuers, a successful group that performed at Max Gordon's Village Vanguard and included Betty Comden, Alvin Hammer, and John Frank.
	www.jwa.org /discover/comedy/holliday.html (879 words)

	One-Time Sunnyside Resident Judy Holliday Honored
		The plaque explains that Judy Holliday, comedic star on Broadway and in Hollywood from the mid-1940s until her death in 1965, lived with her parents in that Sunnyside house during part of her childhood and adolescence, 1926 to 1934.
		Holliday’s parents and the star, born Judith Gollomb Tuvim in Brooklyn at the beginning of summer 1921, were among the first residents of Sunnyside Gardens when they moved there in 1926.
		Judy was not contracted to anybody, but at Columbia, Cohn also controlled Rita Hayworth, and since she was a movie star and not merely famous for Broadway, he had her in mind as Billie.
	www.qgazette.com /news/2005/1207/features/059.html (1102 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Judy Holliday Retrospective
		Holliday has a comic scene in 1950's Born Yesterday (Aug. 8-11) in which her character, Billie Dawn, tries to soak up some culture by listening to symphonies.
		Holliday stayed a New Yorker until the end, and she also stayed a sketch comedienne.
		Holliday wasn't famous just because of her pipes, though; in collaboration with writers Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon and director George Cukor, she had opportunities for prime, almost free-associative comedy.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.06.98/judyholliday-9831.html (582 words)

	Denny Jackson's Judy Holliday Page
		Judy Holliday was born Judith Tuvim in New York City on June 21, 1921.
		By the time Judy was four years old, her mother had enrolled her in ballet school and this helped her to foster a life long interest in show business.
		It was through the Revuers that Judy had her first shot at the silver screen in a film entitled, GREENWICH VILLAGE in 1944.
	www.geocities.com /dennyjackson.geo/holliday.html (725 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Judy Holliday
		Holliday has a comic scene in 1950's Born Yesterday in which her character, Billie Dawn, tries to soak up some culture by listening to symphonies.
		In real life, Holliday was married to the head of the classical records division at Columbia.
		Holliday stayed a New Yorker until the end, and she also stayed a sketch comedian.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/12.20.01/holliday-0151.html (580 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Film Comment - Born Yesterday: Hepburn and Judy Holliday's Plot
		The opening scene, with a distracted Holliday trailing her husband through the streets to his rendezvous, was beautifully shot in a cinema verite style.
		The public was "prepared" for Holliday as during the shoot stories in the press stated she was stealing the picture from her two old pros.
		Cukor held that Hepburn was not generous and Holliday didn't steal the scene--it was her scene and the full shot had to be on her.
	emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=1886 (744 words)

	JWA Presents "This Week in History"
		Holliday's first Broadway role was as a prostitute in Kiss Them for Me (1945), for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award for best supporting actress.
		Holliday's contract with Columbia studios continued, however, and she appeared in a series of films including The Marrying Kind (1952) and It Should Happen to You (1954).
		Holliday returned to Broadway in 1956 in the hit musical Bells are Ringing, written by her friends Betty Comden and Arthur Green, with music by Comden, Green, and Jules Styne, and directed by Jerome Robbins.
	www.jwa.org /this_week/week13.html (2025 words)

	JUDY HOLLIDAY - CONTRACT SIGNED 07/20/1960
		Holliday had starred on Broadway in Born Yesterday (1946-1949) and Bells Are Ringing (1956-1959).
		At the time of this document, Holliday was rehearsing for her title role in Laurette, a play based on the life of actress Laurette Taylor.
		Judy Holliday was only 43 when she succumbed to cancer in 1965.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/8_2003/contracts/JUDY_HOLLIDAY.htm (325 words)

	Biography for Judy Holliday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Judy was 43 when cancer claimed her in 1965.
		According to her biographer Gary Carey, Holliday flummoxed the House Unamerican Activities Committee so much (by essentially playing her Billie Dawn character on the witness stand) she ended up being the only person ever called before HUAC who was neither fllisted nor compelled to name names.
		Holliday was a onetime switchboard operator who performed in New York cabarets before signing with 20th Century-Fox in 1944.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0391062/bio (1972 words)

	Amazon.ca: Born Yesterday (Full Screen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Judy is at her best when she says nothing, such as in the famous card scene, or even better, when she commiserates with a beleagured Congressman and throws a wistful glance in the direction of her new found ally, the English Dictionary, when the Congressman inquires if she is one of his constituents.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003L9CI (1061 words)

	Amazon.com: Born Yesterday: DVD: Judy Holliday,Broderick Crawford,William Holden,Howard St. John,Frank Otto,Larry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Judy Holiday won an Oscar for this film, and no wonder: her performance of Billie Dawn, a "dumb broad" who suddenly wises up in a most unexpected way, is certainly one of the finest and most original film performances in 20th Century American cinema.
		Judy Holliday provided one of the biggest upsets in Oscar history, walking away with the Best Actress statuette for Born Yesterday and beating her formidable rivals, Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, and Gloria Swanson.
		Judy Holliday as Emma "Billie" Dawn, William Holden as Paul Verrall, Howard St. John as Jim Devery, Frank Otto as Eddie, Larry Oliver as Congressman Norval Hedges, Barbara Brown as Mrs.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000695JT?v=glance (2340 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Video Reviews
		Renting any movie featuring comedic genius Judy Holliday, who got to play the dumb blonde while being the smartest one of all, is an excellent way to return to reality after a too-long visit with strange Frenchwomen and petulant Russian skating officials.
		Holliday is remembered primarily for her Oscar-winning performance in Born Yesterday (1950), but It Should Happen to You (1954) is as luminous an experience as that film.
		Holliday plays Gladys Glover, a young lady who moved to New York to become somebody but became somebody who lost her job.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-03-01/screens_video.html (297 words)

	The Marrying Kind (1952): Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray, Madge Kennedy - PopMatters Film Review
		Holliday's fame was achieved through the role of Billie Dawn, the girlfriend of a gangster who falls for a bespectacled teacher, in Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon's 1948 Broadway hit, Born Yesterday.
		Sadly, Holliday's career did not have the longevity of her rivals, as she died from cancer in her mid-40s.
		Holliday also had a purported 172 IQ, which led her astutely to play up her Billie Dove side when she was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Red Scare of the 1950s.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/m/marrying-kind.shtml (1311 words)

	Judy Holliday -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Holliday's father was a respected New York civic leader; her mother was a music teacher; and her uncle, Joseph Gollomb, was a writer.
		Born Judy Cohen in Chicago, Ill., she was involved in the feminist art movement and helped found the Feminist Studio Workshop in Los Angeles.
		As a youth, Judy Blume was discouraged by encountering a lack of books with characters whose feelings and actions resembled her own.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9106353 (700 words)

	Born Yesterday
		Holliday was a comedienne of shrewd intelligence and exuberant talent.
		Judy Holliday learned the role in 3 days, and played it on Broadway for 4 years, opposite Paul Douglas.
		Holliday was glamourized in classic Hollywood style, with 13 elaborate outfits by designer Jean Louis.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDBornYesterday.htm (739 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Born Yesterday [1950]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Holliday's dead-pan delivery makes the pathos of her self-discovery both hilarious and deeply touching; it's the hallmark of a comic genius, which makes the sparseness of her subsequent film appearances all the more regrettable.
		Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her role here, beating Bette Davis, Anne Baxter (both for All About Eve) and Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.) in one of the most unfair winnings I can remember - any of the other 3 should have won.
		A stunning, brilliant performance by Judy Holliday is so winsome, that one cannot but adore and root for her character.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000695JT (742 words)

	Born Yesterday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Actress and comedienne Judy Holliday originated the role of Billie Dawn on Broadway, as well as the George Cukor adaptation made by Columbia Pictures.
		The play was adapted into a 1950 comedy film, Born Yesterday (1950), by Albert Mannheimer, which was directed by George Cukor.
		It stars Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford and William Holden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Born_Yesterday (350 words)

	Amazon.com: It Should Happen to You (Restored) / Movie (1954) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's Manhattan in 1954 and Judy Holliday plays Gladys Glover, a lower-middle-class career girl who's been hunting a decent job for ever so long until she decides she might as well blow her emergency budget and take a chance on a one-shot approach.
		The story concerns a young woman named Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) whose compulsion for fame drives her to rent a billboard in Columbus Circle, on which her name is displayed for all to see.
		As Gladys, Holliday is once again in rare form, delivering the kind of light-hearted, idiotic, yet tender comedic touch that easily made her the darling of such classics as "Born Yesterday" and "The Solid Gold Cadillac".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767825624?v=glance (2164 words)

	Movie Database - tvguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The highlight of this lively Garson Kanin Broadway comedy is the most delightful "dumb blonde" to ever grace the screen, Holliday, in a role she originated on stage and nearly did not get to re-create on screen.
		As the malaprop-tossing mistress of scrap metal tycoon Crawford, she is unknowingly put in nominal charge of his shady empire so that he can cover his tracks.
		Holliday's priceless characterization earned her an Oscar for Best Actress (one of BORN YESTERDAY's five nominations including: Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, and Best Costume Design), a considerable achievement in light of her stellar competition that year: Gloria Swanson in SUNSET BOULEVARD and Bette Davis in ALL ABOUT EVE.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/Movie-Review.asp?MI=21120 (268 words)

	MoMA \| press \| Releases \| 1996 \| The Glorious Career of Comedienne Judy Holliday is Celebrated in a Complete Nine-Film ...
		Judy Holliday approached screen acting with extraordinary intelligence and intuition, debuting in the World War II film
		Holliday began and ended her career with Betty Comden and Adolph Green, her partners in The Revuers, the cabaret act that performed in three films in 1944; Comden and Green scripted the musical comedy
		for Holliday on stage in 1956, and it was adapted for her last screen performance, in 1960.
	www.moma.org /about_moma/press/1996/holliday_12_01_96.html (375 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Film Comment - Winged Victory: Judy Holliday's First Role
		One of those was played by Judy Holliday, who in the next decade would become Cukor's quintessential actress, appearing in five of his movies.
		Tested for one of the housewife roles, Holliday was heavily made up and dressed in what she thought a movie star would wear.
		Holliday had little acting experience, but her phrasing was poignant, moving, and intensely personal.
	emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=1885 (638 words)

	Born Yesterday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Holliday is delightful in her transformation to a woman of intellect and culture; the Pygmalion-like story is filled with laughs and sexual innuendo.
	www.videoflicks.com /titles/1002/1002930.htm?23134 (522 words)

	Playbill Features: Faith Prince Rings Those Bells
		Prince, who won a Tony Award as Best Actress for her portrayal of Adelaide in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, is starring at the Plymouth Theatre in the first-ever Broadway revival of the 1956 hit, winning a new Tony nomination in the process.
		Bells was written by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green especially for the enormously talented Judy Holliday, who had risen to stardom as Billie Dawn, the not-so-dumb blonde in Born Yesterday in 1946.
		“Judy Holliday was exceptionally bright,” Prince says of the legendary star, who died of cancer in 1965 at age 42.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/65075.html (761 words)

	Judy Holliday Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		No sooner had Judy settled into her new surroundings, than she was summoned back to Columbia.
		Judy kept herself busy withBells Are Ringing, a musical that her friends Comden and Green had written just for her.
		Though Judy was reluctant to sing, she wanted to perform on the stage again.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/classic_actresses/65948/2 (513 words)

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