With Born Yesterday, Filmoteca Canaria closes the cycle El amor es un clásico. Billie Dawn, portrayed by Judy Holliday in her Oscar-winning performance, is probably the most lovable heroine of all five comedies of the cycle. Broderick Crawford is brilliant as a bully tycoon Harry Brock, said to be based on Columbia’s Harry Cohn, the very same who ordered to drag Claudette Colbert off the train. At times suffering from over-righteousness (democracy good, corruption bad, we’ve got it), it’s still a fine and heartwarming film. Thoroughly recommended.
This is the first and so far the only movie with Judy Holliday I’ve seen. I didn’t know until now that she co-wrote and recorded jazz songs with her partner Gerry Mulligan. The album, Holliday with Mulligan, was not released until 1980, fifteen years after the singer’s death.
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