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Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's Academy Award-winning performance as the dumb blonde of the Broadway hit (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 30, 1951 | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's Academy-Award-winning performance as the dumb blonde of the Broadway hit (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 23, 1951 | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...plan. The Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Catholic War Veterans attacked it. A Grand Rapids, Mich, draft board suspended operations in protest. One member, Robert J. Yonkman, Air Force major in World War II, said: "The Government wants to ... give tests to disclose whether a man is dumb enough to bear arms. Maybe they should put on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier: 'I couldn't pass the aptitude test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: Up In Arms | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Academy-Award Winner Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 16, 1951 | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...star in Broadway's Twentieth Century. Host Ferrer never got a chance to deliver the speech he had planned in honor of Actress Swanson's Oscar. After the news came over the radio from Hollywood that Judy Holliday had won the best-actress award (for the dumb blonde in Born Yesterday), Gloria Swanson gave an impromptu message of her own to the nightclub audience: "Naturally, I'm disappointed. The Old Grey Mare has got to get going again, that's all. Tomorrow's another day. I'll have to start trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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