Holiday (1938 film)

Holiday is a 1938 film directed by George Cukor, a remake of the 1930 film of the same name. The film is a romantic comedy which tells the story of a man who has risen from humble beginnings only to be torn between his freethinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiances family. The movie was adapted by Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman from the play by Philip Barry and stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and features Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, and Edward Everett Horton, who played the same role he had played in the 1930 version.

Johnny Case Cary Grant, a selfmade man who has worked all of his life, is about to marry Julia Seton Doris Nolan, whom he met while on holiday in Lake Placid, New York. He knows very little about his bridetobe, and is flabbergasted to learn that she is from an extremely wealthy family, the daughter of banker Edward Seton Henry Kolker. He meets Julias vivacious sister Linda Katharine Hepburn, to whom he confides his plan to take a long holiday from work to find the meaning of life, and also meets the sisters dissolute brother Ned Lew Ayres, whose spirit has been broken by subservience to his father. At first, the father is stunned when Julia tells him about her plan to marry Johnny, but he is appeased after meeting him and looking into his work history. Julia makes plans for an elaborate New Years Eve engagement party, even though she promised Linda that she could throw Johnny and Julia a smaller, more personal affair that would include only close friends.On the night of the party, upset that she did not get to throw the engagement party she was promised, Linda refuses to come down from her favorite room in the house, and Julia sends Johnny to get her. He finds her and Ned in the playroom the one truly human room in the enormous, cold, overbuilt Park Avenue mansion with Johnnys offbeat friends, Professor Nick Potter and his wife Susan Edward Everett Horton and Jean Dixon, who have gotten lost and serendipitously ended up there. The group spends a joyful time together, interrupted just as Johnny and Linda display a tumbling trick together by Julia and her father. Mr. Seton offers Johnny a job at his bank, and Johnny reveals his plans for a holiday from work. Julia is appalled, as is her domineering father, and, after seeing in the New Year with Linda, and the announcement of the engagement to the assembled guests, Johnny leaves the mansion in a dark mood without saying goodbye to the family, but wishing the kitchen staff a Happy New Years. Linda tells her brother

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