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Born Yesterday is a 1950 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor, based on the 1946 stage play of the same name by Garson Kanin. The screenplay was credited to Albert Mannheimer. According to Kanin's autobiography, Cukor did not like Mannheimer's work, believing it lacked much of the play's value, so he approached Kanin about ...
Reviews to Born Yesterday were mostly negative. On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 25% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 4.1/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Not even Melanie Griffith's charisma can inject fresh energy into this ill-conceived remake, which awkwardly retreads through the classic original ...
For her film performance in Born Yesterday, Holliday won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy; and at the 23rd Academy Awards, won the Academy Award for Best Actress, defeating Gloria Swanson, nominated for Sunset Boulevard; Eleanor Parker, for Caged; and Bette Davis and Anne Baxter, both for All ...
Born Yesterday, a 1950 film directed by George Cukor; Born Yesterday, a 1956 TV film directed by Garson Kanin; Born Yesterday, a 1993 film directed by Luis Mandoki; Born Yesterday, a 1985 album by The Everly Brothers; Born Yesterday (song), a song by The Everly Brothers; Born Yesterday, an episode from season 3 of Bluey
The film was made by Columbia who put Crawford under contract. He co-starred with Glenn Ford in Convicted (1950), then starred in another hit 'A'-list production with William Holden and Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday (1950), directed by George Cukor. Crawford starred in The Mob (1951), a crime drama.
Born Yesterday opened on February 4, 1946 on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre [1] and ran there until November 6, 1948; the play transferred to Henry Miller's Theatre on November 9, 1948 and closed on December 31, 1949, after a total of 1,642 performances. [2] As of 2019 it was the seventh longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history. [3]
Born Yesterday is a 1956 TV film based on the play Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Kanin adapted and directed it. George Schaefer helped Kanin direct but was not credited. [1] Mary Martin's performance was her first TV appearance since Peter Pan. [2] The New York Times thought she was miscast. [3]
Howard St. John (October 9, 1905 – March 13, 1974 [1]) was a Chicago-born character actor who specialized in unsympathetic roles. His work spanned Broadway , film and television . Among his best-remembered roles are the bombastic General Bullmoose in the stage and screen versions of the 1956 musical Li'l Abner , [ 2 ] and his supporting roles ...