{"id":4584,"date":"2010-05-23T13:18:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T17:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2010-05-23T13:18:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T17:18:45","slug":"born-yesterday-1950-george-cukor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/4584","title":{"rendered":"Born Yesterday (1950, George Cukor)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story annoys me in the same way as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/371\">My Fair Lady<\/a><\/em> (also by Cukor), setting up a woman as horrid and annoying, then having a smart white guy fix her and, inevitably, fall in love with her.  While <em>My Fair Lady<\/em> still succeeds because of wonderful filmmaking and Audrey Hepburn, <em>Born Yesterday<\/em> succeeds <strong>entirely<\/strong> because of Judy Holliday.  She&#8217;s hilarious, and I couldn&#8217;t get enough of her &#8211; no wonder she won an oscar.  I&#8217;d forgotten that I also loved her in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/512\">Adam&#8217;s Rib<\/a><\/em> (<em>also<\/em> by Cukor, jeez) from the year before.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/bornyesterday1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>William Holden, whom I never seem to recognize even though I&#8217;ve seen him in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1531\">Sabrina<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2869\">Sunset Blvd.<\/a><\/em>, is a smartypants do-gooder reporter hired by boisterous, arrogant rich dude Broderick Crawford (good to see him out of the dark, depressing roles of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4188\">Scandal Sheet<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1356\">Human Desire<\/a><\/em>).  Holliday is Crawford&#8217;s dumb broad who gets too smart for her own good.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/bornyesterday2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>IMDB says the film was rehearsed like a play, in front of a live audience &#8211; wonderful idea.  The story builds to a predictable conclusion, the intrepid reporter taking down the corrupt businessman and his in-pocket congressmen, escaping with the previously-ignorant woman who has become an avid reader.  Before the plot machine kicks in, it&#8217;s a bunch of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story annoys me in the same way as My Fair Lady (also by Cukor), setting up a woman as horrid and annoying, then having a smart white guy fix her and, inevitably, fall in love with her. While My Fair Lady still succeeds because of wonderful filmmaking and Audrey Hepburn, Born Yesterday succeeds entirely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,154],"class_list":["post-4584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-george-cukor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}