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Awards & Achievements. Judy Holliday won the ‘Clarence Derwent Award’ in 1945 for her supporting role in ‘Kiss Them for Me’. She won an ‘Oscar for the Best Actress’ in 1950 for the film ‘Born Yesterday’. She won the ‘Tony Award’ for the musical ‘Bells are Ringing’ in 1956. She has a star on the ‘Hollywood Walk of Fame’.
Apr 18, 2014 · Judy Holliday wins the Best Actress Oscar for Born Yesterday at the 23rd Academy Awards. Presented by Broderick Crawford, hosted by Fred Astaire and accepted...
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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 ...
Smart Blonde: With Annaleigh Ashford. Based on the life of Oscar and Tony Award winner Judy Holliday. She conquered Hollywood and Broadway when a woman with a 172 IQ had to fight 'dumb blonde' typecasting and political blacklisting to become an unsung feminist.
Judy Holliday. Judy Holliday was an American actress. Holliday began her career as part of a night-club act, before working in Broadway plays and musicals. Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as “Billie Dawn” led to her being cast in the 1950 film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the ...
Bells Are Ringing is a 1960 American romantic comedy-musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Judy Holliday and Dean Martin.Based on the successful 1956 Broadway production of the same name by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne, the film focuses on Ella Peterson, based on the life of Mary Printz, who works in the basement office of a telephone answering service.
Bells Are Ringing: Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr.. A Brooklyn answering service operator becomes involved in the lives of her clients, including a struggling playwright with whom she begins to fall in love.
