Born Yesterday (1950)
Directed by George Cukor
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.
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She was post–Born Yesterday Judy Holliday. 1 In any case, it would be a relief to see Johnson, too, get something more declarative to do.
Heroically stolid in the Hunger Games movies, appealingly morose in Silver Linings Playbook — and in those films a treat to watch as she expressed complex emotions with virtually no facial tics or sweeping gestures — Lawrence gives this movie’s most overtly comic performance, lending Rosalyn a body and dynamism rarely seen since Judy Holliday played the not-so-dumb blonde Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday , 63 years ago.
Consider something like Born Yesterday , wherein a similarly superficial and ditzy woman has enough integrity to realise that her life is all wrong, and reaches out in some tentative way to fix it, to find just how far afield from the traditional character arcs Clueless finds itself.
And Jean Hagen, despite not being the filmmakers' first choice for Lina (that was Judy Holliday, whose 1951 Oscar victory for Born Yesterday, priced her beyond what the budget would allow), defines a perfect comic caricature.
MGM originally intended her role as the quintessential dumb blonde for Judy Holliday, but Holliday had just scored a big hit in "Born Yesterday" and became unavailable for the role.