Word: holliday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie. Almost all of the laughs arrive by way of deep left field and are put across with the heavy hand of amateur gag men. This is unfortunate because four of the participants are capable of real humor. Besides the traditional Hepburn-Tracy team, the movie present Judy Holliday of "Born Yesterday" fame and Tom Ewell, who played Ensign Pulver in "Mr. Roberts...
Spencer Tracy playing an assistant District Attorney named Adam Bonner attempts to prosecute a woman (Judy Holliday) who took pot shots at her husband when she found his in the arms of another woman. Miss Hepburn (Bonner's wife) defends the accused woman. The trial becomes an attempt to defend women's rights to protect their families by any means they choose...
...story, fashioned by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon: a frowsy blonde (Judy Holliday) trails her husband (Tom Ewell) to his girl friend's apartment and shoots him, but not fatally. The rest of the movie follows the trial of the assault case in court. Attorney Tracy is defending a husband's right to philander; Attorney Hepburn is fighting for a woman's right to shoot an adulterous husband...
Where Hight Was Right. The late John Holliday, founder of the Indianapolis News, once found height spelled hight in one of his editorials. He stormed into the composing room, where the foreman showed him the word spelled that way in his own copy. Barked Holliday: "If that's the way I spelled it, that's correct." It was hight in the News until a new stylebook came out last year...
...timeliness and relevance. The setting is politically topical, but little chance was taken that ideas become so complex as to get in the way, Long and loud, the laughs hinge on modern-day Malapropism and punchy stuff like the often-mouthed "do me a fayvuh, Harry--dwop dead." Judy Holliday's absence from the road company cast is inescapably conspicuous...