{"id":2593,"date":"2009-06-23T22:49:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T02:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2009-06-23T22:49:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T02:49:18","slug":"holiday-1938-george-cukor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2593","title":{"rendered":"Holiday (1938, George Cukor)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dreamer Johnny (Cary Grant, a year after <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/515\">The Awful Truth<\/a><\/em>) is supposed to marry Julia (Doris Nolan, who wasn&#8217;t in the movies for long) but finds that he has more in common with her sister Linda (Katharine Hepburn, a few months after <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/603\">Bringing Up Baby<\/a><\/em> and somewhat less manic).  After his upcoming vacation with fiancee and friends E. Everett Horton (Astaire&#8217;s straight man in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/355\">The Gay Divorcee<\/a><\/em>) and Jean Dixon (the heroine&#8217;s sister in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1191\">My Man Godfrey<\/a><\/em>) Johnny plans to quit his job and spend a year rethinking what to do with his life.  Turns out this is quite unacceptable to Julia, who has big plans for Johnny&#8217;s career in her father&#8217;s footsteps.  Out of love for the girl, Johnny nearly accepts this boring and restricted new life for himself, but wait, free-spirit Hepburn, similarly imprisoned by class\/career expectations, is also in love with him, so he and she go off on holiday together.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cary, stuck between his witch-hatted old fiancee and flat-hatted new fiancee:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/holiday1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>KH impersonating her stuffed giraffe:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/holiday2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Lew Ayres (Dr. Kildare himself) plays the girls&#8217; tragicomic drunk brother.  I thought he was E. Everett Horton the whole time because it turns out I don&#8217;t know who E.E.H. is.  This was a remake of a 1930 version in which E.E.H. plays the same character he does here.  Katy and I liked it a whole bunch, but I was looking forward to seeing a holiday, and the movie takes place <strong>between<\/strong> two holidays.  I thought I&#8217;d seen this before, but may have been confusing it with <em>Charade<\/em> &#8211; a color movie starring Grant and a different Hepburn filmed 25 years later, oops.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tragicomic Lew Ayres:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/holiday3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>EEH and Jean Dixon vs. the butler:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/holiday4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreamer Johnny (Cary Grant, a year after The Awful Truth) is supposed to marry Julia (Doris Nolan, who wasn&#8217;t in the movies for long) but finds that he has more in common with her sister Linda (Katharine Hepburn, a few months after Bringing Up Baby and somewhat less manic). 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