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Born Yesterday
“I want everybody to be smart. I want 'em to be as smart as they can be. A world full of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.”
A Comedy of Intelligence: Breaking Down Born Yesterday
George Cukor's 1950 comedy Born Yesterday stars Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn, a former showgirl who finds herself caught between her corrupt businessman boyfriend Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) and Paul Verrall (William Holden), the journalist hired to educate her. Based on Garson Kanin's hit Broadway play, the film earned Holliday an Academy Award for Best Actress, beating out Gloria Swanson in Sunset…
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