Judy Holliday

Anybody watch "It Should Happen to You" last night?  She died all too young and with a fairly short film resume but Holliday may be my favorite old time actress. 

She perfected a dumb/but really smart blond screen persona.  It's just hard not to smile every time she speaks on screen.  Even more so in "Born Yesterday."

A lot of ISHY was filmed on scene in NY and its Jack Lemon's first movie.

Also a fan. Takes some acting chops to hold your own with Hepburn and Tracy. And she did even better than that.

The Rotten Tomatoes bio says her IQ was 172.  I'd like to believe that but who knows.

Beautiful funny lady.

I have been a fan of hers for many years. She doesn't get nearly the recognition she deserves.  She recreated her best known Broadway role in the film of "Bells Are Ringing," so you should seek that out if you haven't already seen it. Also, "The Marrying Kind," while somewhat melodramatic, shows her versatility as an actress. 

RichardR said:

I have been a fan of hers for many years. She doesn't get nearly the recognition she deserves.  She recreated her best known Broadway role in the film of "Bells Are Ringing," so you should seek that out if you haven't already seen it. Also, "The Marrying Kind," while somewhat melodramatic, shows her versatility as an actress. 

The Marrying Kind was on TCM over the weekend, but I didn't get the chance to watch it.  I thought she was great in Adam's Rib, alongside Tom Ewell and Jean Hagen (plus Hepburn and Tracy).

bub said:

The Rotten Tomatoes bio says her IQ was 172.  I'd like to believe that but who knows.

"In the end, Billie Dawn taught the uncouth junk dealer the meaning of democracy and proved she was not as dumb as she looked and acted — though not as smart as her creator, Judy Holliday, who had an IQ of 172, and read Stendhal and Proust."

http://www.billgladstone.ca/?p...

. . . and she's from Queens NY!

cramer said:

bub said:

The Rotten Tomatoes bio says her IQ was 172.  I'd like to believe that but who knows.

"In the end, Billie Dawn taught the uncouth junk dealer the meaning of democracy and proved she was not as dumb as she looked and acted — though not as smart as her creator, Judy Holliday, who had an IQ of 172, and read Stendhal and Proust."

http://www.billgladstone.ca/?p...

She was great, just great. Let's not forget The Solid Gold Cadillac. Loved her in Adam's Rib...she was married to jazz great Gerry Mulligan. 

She won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and at the 23rd Academy Awards, Holliday won the Academy Award for Best Actress, defeating Gloria Swanson, nominated for Sunset Boulevard, Eleanor Parker, for Caged, and Bette Davis and Anne Baxter, both for All About Eve.