Judy Holliday, in an Oscar-winning performance BORN YESTERDAY 1950 Born Yesterday is a 1950 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor, based on the 1946 stage play of the same name by Garson Kanin. The screenplay was credited to Albert Mannheimer. According to Kanin's autobiography, Cukor did not like Mannheimer's work, believing it lacked much of the play's value, so he approached Kanin about adapting a screenplay from his own play. Because of legal entanglements, Kanin did not receiv

Born Yesterday (1950) Original Trailer Brassy blonde moll Billie Dawn (Judy Holliday) hits Washington, D.C., with her unscrupulous millionaire sugar daddy, Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford), and his sleazy lawyer, Jim Devery (Howard St. John), who has been pressuring Harry to marry Billie by pointing out that a wife cannot be forced to testify against her husband. In an effort to make Billie more socially acceptable, Harry hires journalist Paul Verrall (William Holden) to smarten her up -- and sp

Writer Garson Kanin sold his hit Broadway play, "Born Yesterday," to Columbia Pictures for the sum of $1 million, setting a record for the highest price ever paid for a film property. It remains the seventh longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history. #LetsMovie | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

Judy Holliday is blonde, beautiful, and brazen opposite William Holden in BORN YESTERDAY (’50). Holliday originated the role of Billie Dawn on Broadway and won the Oscar for Best Actress for her work in the film version. | Turner Classic Movies: TCM