Word: holliday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place is a fen of corruption. She may be dumb in the wiles of this world, but she is not a crook. Ultimately, her innate goodness and the love of an idealistic young man allow her to kick the dust of all those capital shenanigans from her heels. Judy Holliday could have played this part perfectly. In fact, in Born Yesterday...
...watch, particularly in "Make 'Em Laugh," a tribute to vaudeville slapstick during which he walks into walls, falls over couches, and generally mutilates himself in a (vain) attempt to make someone, anyone laugh. But Jean Hagen is the most annoying of all, doing a pale imitation of Judy Holliday as a shrill, dumb blonde, a silent star who refuses to admit she wasn't cut out for the sound...
...success of the play really hinges on the character of Billie--a part that was written for Judy Holliday--and sophomore Sarah McClusky carries it off well. She plays the part with an appealing naturalness and a total lack of self-consciousness but at the same time with so much sensitivity that the transition from submissive dumb blonde to independent woman is completely believeable. The voice is obviously imitation Holliday, but it's a good imitation and probably the only voice that would work...
Born Yesterday is a late '40s remake of the Pygmalion story. The movie is pretty drab, even for fluff, but Judy Holliday stole the show and saved it with her portrayal of the dumbest of all dumb blondes. The revival at the Loeb has its own virtues: see page two. Born Yesterday is playing Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets half an hour before the performance, at the door...
Born Yesterday is a variation on the Pygmalion story of a dumb girl who gets educated and, in this version, turns the tables on her rich, vulgar husband. The play, which dates from the late forties, was little more than a vehicle for the bizarre Judy Holliday, but this old warhorse could possibly be given a new twist in the light of new attitudes of sexism. At the Ex this weekend...