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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 ...
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1950 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
The winner of the Best Motion Picture category was Twentieth Century-Fox's All About Eve. The other four nominated pictures were Born Yesterday, Father of the Bride, King Solomon's Mines and Sunset Boulevard. All About Eve was nominated for 14 Oscars, beating the previous record of Gone with the Wind (13).
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 ...
Borderline (1950 film) Born of Unknown Father; Born to Be Bad (1950 film) Born Yesterday (1950 film) The Boy from Indiana; Branded (1950 film) The Brave Engineer; Brave People; The Bread Peddler (1950 film) The Breaking Point (1950 film) Breakthrough (1950 film) Bridge of Time; Il Brigante Musolino; Bright Leaf; Broken Arrow (1950 film ...
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]
From '2001: A Space Odyssey' to 'Star Wars,' it’s a medium where anything goes and nothing is off limits. Now, with the release of 'Dune: Part Two,' the canon of classic sci-fi films has a new ...
None was successful, losing to Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday and Josephine Hull in Harvey, respectively. Jose Ferrer , then under investigation from the House Un-American Activities Committee over suspected Communist ties, won the Best Actor award despite being given very little chances to win. [ 1 ]