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Genre | Romance, Drama Classic, Comedy, Award Winning |
Format | NTSC, Black & White, Full Screen, Subtitled |
Contributor | Broderick Crawford, Columbia Pictures Corporation, George Cukor, Judy Holliday, Howard St. John, S. Sylvan Simon, William Holden See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 42 minutes |
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Born Yesterday
Judy Holliday won the 1950 Best Actress Oscar for her brilliant and funny role as Billie Dawn, thedumb blonde girlfriend of Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford), a corrupt millionaire junk dealer. Brock, a man with social ambitions and a willingness to do anything to fulfill them, is embarrassed by Billie's crass behavior and lack of social sophistication. So he arranges for her to take a crash course in culture from a handsome, young journalist (William Holden). Billie blossoms under his kind tutelage and becomes increasingly aware of her role as a pawn in Brock's crooked business deals. Brockis surprised and outraged when Billie suddenly refuses to cooperate any longer. This is a classic with unforgettable performances.
Starring:
- Judy Holliday
- Broderick Crawford
- William Holden
- Howard St. John
Product Description
Product Description
Judy Holliday won the 1950 Best Actress Oscar® for her brilliant and funny role as Billie Dawn, thedumb blonde girlfriend of Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford), a corrupt millionaire junk dealer. Brock, a man with social ambitions and a willingness to do anything to fulfill them, is embarrassed by Billie's crass behavior and lack of social sophistication. So he arranges for her to take a crash course in culture from a handsome, young journalist (William Holden). Billie blossoms under his kind tutelage and becomes increasingly aware of her role as a pawn in Brock's crooked business deals. Brockis surprised and outraged when Billie suddenly refuses to cooperate any longer. This is a classic with unforgettable performances.
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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. To ensure that Billie gets properly "culturefied," the corrupt Crawford hires a D.C. journalist (William Holden) to give the seemingly dim-witted blonde a crash course in politics, history, literature, and--you guessed it--true love. Billie's not nearly as dumb as she seems, of course, and before long she's graduated from pawn to sassy queen on her husband's political chessboard.
Watching Born Yesterday is a crash course in itself--an object lesson in how low American screen comedy has fallen from these delirious heights. The movie's funny even when there's a pause in the golden dialogue, such as when Holliday tests Crawford's patience in a sublimely comedic round of gin rummy. There's not a single scene in which Holliday (reprising her Broadway role) isn't simply perfect, the cogs turning smoothly behind her dim expressions and coarsely high-pitched squeal. Suave as ever, Holden is her match made in heaven, and Crawford is a brute who's too stupid to be genuinely malevolent. Put 'em all together and you've got a timeless classic, so flawless that a 1993 remake was instantly doomed to pale comparisons. --Jeff Shannon
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Item model number : 1439
- Director : George Cukor
- Media Format : NTSC, Black & White, Full Screen, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 42 minutes
- Release date : February 15, 2000
- Actors : Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden, Howard St. John
- Subtitles: : English, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, Georgian, Spanish
- Producers : S. Sylvan Simon
- Language : Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00003L9CI
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #10,481 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #332 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #905 in Kids & Family DVDs
- #1,170 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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This movie moves along!
I enjoyed it 60 years ago as a kid.. so I’m introducing it to my children and grandchildren.
Highly recommended!
Judy Holliday is the girlfriend of Broderick Crawford, a junkyard bigshot, who’s come to Washington, DC, to work out some “deals” with a few shady legislators. He and she are two of a kind, both coarse and uncivilized. The difference is that Crawford is crooked while Holliday is clueless. What a pair they make, as they sashay into the hotel with their dozen suitcases and flop themselves in the penthouse,e suite.
A suave Congressman and wife are invited for tea and are shocked by Holliday’s boorish behavior. She’s an embarrassment, and she can easily jeopardize Crawford’s bribery plans. So he hires a smart and handsome journalist, William Holden, to give a crash course on culture. Well, scholar and student take one look at each other, and the sparks fly.
Holliday makes the first move. “Sweet talk to me. I like it,” she tells him. Soon after that, “I got a yen for you.” Later she looks into his eyes, and both lean in for a long smooth kiss. Afterwards Holden puts on the breaks. “Things are complicated enough without complicating them further,” he mutters. Meanwhile he gives her books about Thomas Paine, Robert Ingersoll, and Jefferson and newspapers to read. It turns out Holliday is no dummy. She’s a whiz at gin rummy—there’s a hilarious scene—and she absorbs Holden’s lessons in art, music, poetry, and government, like a duck to the Potomac River.
To enhance the book-learning, he takes her to the Capitol Rotunda, the Library of Congress, a Watergate concert, the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, and the National Gallery of Art. These tourist sites are magnificently filmed, and we get a mini-course in civics, taught by a charismatic teacher, in a setting (my town) never more beautiful.
Holden plays Pygmalion to the girl’s growing understanding of government. Repeatedly he explains how tyranny differs from freedom. Eventually she gets it. When she discovers Crawford’s corrupt plans, she turns to Thomas Jefferson for help.
Crawford and Holliday dazzle as the uncouth couple. Their acting was perfected, no doubt from playing the roles for months on stage. But Holden, never trained in the theater and learning the whole script in only 3 days, is equally terrific. He provides counterbalance to his co-stars, and it’s no surprise that his deep voice, good looks, and intelligent line-reading make him ideal for the role.
This is a masterpiece by director George Cukor. Enjoy dreamy Holliday and dreamboat Holden as they upend the nation’s capitol!
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Regisseur George Cukor war 1950 kein Unbekannter, hatte er doch schon für Klassiker wie "Vom Winde verweht", "Der Zauberer von Oz" Co-Regie (allerdings "uncredited") übernommen und mit u. a. "Die Schwester der Braut" oder "Die Nacht vor der Hochzeit" auch sein Talent für romantische Komödien bewiesen.
Bei "Born Yesterday" bzw. "Die ist nicht von gestern" hat er eine recht simple Geschichte zwar nicht neu erfunden, sie aber ganz amüsant inszeniert. Judy Holliday ist mit Ihrer Stimme schon von vorne rein ein Hingucker - bzw. Hinhörer, wenn man das so nennen will. Man merkt vom ersten Moment an, dass sie das typische dumme Blondchen darstellen soll und das macht sie wirklich ordentlich (dafür gab's auch 1951 den Oscar!). Was mich weniger überzeugt ist die Wandlung - sicher ist sie gegen Ende noch immer keine Intelligenzbestie, aber sie scheint viel zu schnell Zusammenhänge erkennen zu können und sie dann auch entsprechend anzuwenden. Hat mich persönlich nicht so ganz überzeugt, aber da es eine Komödie ist und man hier nun mal damit rechnen muss, keine Dokumentation vorgesetzt zu bekommen, kann man natürlich auch darüber hinwegsehen.
Die romantische Seite kommt hier auch arg zu schnell und damit etwas unglaubwürdig zustande. Viel zu fix kommt es zum ersten Kuss zwischen Holden und ihr, da gefällt mir ein langsamerer Aufbau wie z. B. beim späteren "My fair Lady" (ebenfalls übrigens von Cukor) besser. Es wird somit nicht ersichtlich, warum Holden sich überhaupt zu ihr hingezogen fühlt. Wenn der Kuss später gekommen wäre, hätte es mehr Sinn gemacht, aber so richtige Funken zwischen Holden und Holliday habe ich da auch nicht wahrgenommen.
Am besten gefällt mir hier aber sowieso Broderick Crawford. Dieser ständig wütende Kerl, der aber zwischendurch doch zugibt, verrückt nach seiner Freundin zu sein und nicht schlafen kann, wenn sie nicht da ist haut einen mit seiner Taktlosigkeit, seiner Hektik und irgendwo auch seiner Hilflosigkeit schlicht um. Er bringt mich tatsächlich mehr zum Lachen als Judy Holliday es hier vermag (das kommt auch gut beim Kartenspiel der Beiden zur Geltung) - aber das ist natürlich wie immer Geschmackssache.
Zur DVD:
Zuerst mal das Wichtigste: der UK-Import hier kommt tatsächlich (auch wenn amazon uns das hier verschweigt bzw. nur Englisch angibt) mit Deutscher Sprache (Italienisch, Französisch und Spanisch sind auch als Sprache dabei) und diversen (auch deutschen) Untertiteln daher!
Wem also die deutsche DVD als zu teuer erscheint, kann hier beherzt zugreifen, da die DVD auch den Regionalcode 2 hat und auf unseren DVD- bzw. Blu-ray Playern läuft.
Empfehlen würde ich tatsächlich eher den englischen Ton, da Judy Hollidays Stimme im Original ein Knaller ist, man kann dann ja auch deutsche oder englische Untertitel hinzuschalten z. B..
Als Extra sind leider nur der Kinotrailer und ein paar Vintage-Plakate zu bestaunen. Das ist schwach.
Fazit: Broderick Crawford als ständig übelgelaunter Freund von dem vermeintlich blonden Dummchen Judy Holliday gefällt mir hier am besten, mir fehlt aber der Funke zwischen Holden und Holliday. Ein netter Spaß für zwischendurch.