Born Yesterday (1950 film)

Born Yesterday is a 1950 American comedydrama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was credited to Albert Mannheimer based on the stage play of the same name by Garson Kanin. According to Kanins autobiography, Cukor did not like Mannheimers work, believing it lost much of the value of the play, so he approached the playwright about writing the screenplay from his own play. Because of some legal entanglements, Kanin did not receive screen credit.

Uncouth tycoon Harry Brock Broderick Crawford goes to Washington, D.C. with his brassy girlfriend, Emma Billie Dawn Judy Holliday, and his crooked lawyer, Jim Devery Howard St. John, to influence a politician or two. The lawyer also presses Harry to marry Billie on the grounds that a wife cannot be forced to testify against her husband.Harry becomes disgusted with Billies ignorance and lack of manners though he himself is much worse. He hires a tutor for her journalist Paul Verrall William Holden. Blossoming under Pauls encouragement and her own hard work, Billie learns about literature, history, politics and the law, and turns out to be much smarter than anybody knew. She begins to think for herself and apply her reading and learning to her life situation. The two begin to fall in love. ........

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