TV Guide: Judy Holliday

Video: Bells Are Ringing - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:57:18 -0400

"An answering-service operator gets mixed up in her clients' lives in the musical romance, Bells Are Ringing (1960), starring Judy Holliday."

Video: The Marrying Kind - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:07:04 -0400

A divorcing couple (Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray) reflect on what led them to court in George Cukor's comedy/drama The Marrying Kind (1952).

Video: It Should Happen to You trailer

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:59:03 -0400

A dizzy model (Judy Holliday) in love with fame rents a billboard and puts her name on it in It Should Happen to You (1954) co-starring Jack Lemmon.

Video: Born Yesterday -- (Movie Intro) Tracey Ullman

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:53:05 -0400

TCM Guest Programmer Tracey Ullman joins Robert Osborne to introduce Born Yesterday, 1950, starring Judy Holliday, from the play by Garson Kanin.

Video: Born Yesterday - (Re-issue Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:53:03 -0400

A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman's girlfriend in Born Yesterday (1950), starring Judy Holliday.

Video: Adam's Rib - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:50:53 -0400

Doris (Judy Holliday) shoots her philandering husband (Tom Ewell) starting the legal case at the center of Adam's Rib (1949).

Video: Hollywood Collection: Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:05:18 -0400

John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III, was born on February 8, 1925. An only child, he was raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and was that rarity among Hollywood stars, a man with affectionate memories of his parents. Graduating from Harvard, Jack headed for New York City to become a professional actor. A job playing piano to silent movies gave him the chance to study comics like Keaton and Chaplin up close. His first acting was on soap opera and live TV drama. But it was his appearance in a Broadway revival of Room Service that led to a co-starring role with Judy Holliday in his first movie, It Should Happen To You (1954). However, Jack had no intention of "going Hollywood" and he adamantly refused to change his name. His unmistakable intellect and his boyish but average looks played against him becoming a romantic leading man. But his live TV and comedy training gave him the perfect timing, the precise emotional balance and the total believability that showed in films as diverse as Mister Roberts (1955), Some Like It

Video: Hollywood Collection: Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:03:43 -0400

Video: Adam's Rib

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:33:51 -0400

Screen legends and Academy Award-winners Katherine Hepburn ("On Golden Pond," "The African Queen") and Spencer Tracy ("Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde") are back together for this classic side-splitting romantic comedy as married lawyers who find themselves on the opposite sides of a murder case. Directed by Academy Award-winner George Cukor ("My Fair Lady") and nominated for Best Screenplay. Featuring the premiere of Oscar-winning actress Judy Holliday ("Born Yesterday") and David Wayne (TV's "Ellery Queen"). Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. Selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 400 best American films of all time.

Video: Bells Are Ringing

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:32:42 -0400

Judy Holliday re-creates her Broadway role of flibbertigibbet telephone operator Ella Peterson in Bells are Ringing. Ella works for Susanswerphone, a hole-in-the-wall answering service run by her cousin Sue (Jean Stapleton). Our girl Ella can't help but become involved in the lives of her customers, which brings her to the attention of a dimwitted police detective, Barnes (Dort Clark), who suspects that Susanswerphone is a front for a house of ill repute. The cop is so obtuse that he never notices the story's genuine criminal, a flamboyant German bookie (Eddie Foy Jr.) who poses as a record executive and uses the names of composers as code for the various racetracks around the country. To avoid Barnes' wiretapping, Ella goes around New York in person to minister to the needs of her clients--most notably playwright Jeffrey Moss (Dean Martin), who is in danger of becoming an alcoholic if he can't come up with a good idea for a play. Assuming a false identity, Ella prattles on about some of her other clients, no

Video: Adam's Rib

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:10:56 -0400

Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib is a peerless comedy predicated on the double standard. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play Adam and Amanda Bonner, a husband-and-wife attorney team, both drawn to a case of attempted murder. The defendant (Judy Holliday) had tearfully attempted to shoot her husband (Tom Ewell) and his mistress (Jean Hagen). Adam argues that the case is open and shut, but Amanda points out that, if the defendant were a man, he'd be set free on the basis of the unwritten law. Thus it is that Adam works on behalf of the prosecution, while Amanda defends the accused woman. The trial turns into a media circus, while the Bonners' home life suffers. Adam's Rib represented the film debuts of New York-based actors Jean Hagen, Tom Ewell, and David Wayne (as Hepburn's erstwhile songwriting suitor), and the return to Hollywood of Judy Holliday after her Born Yesterday triumph. One of the best of the Tracy-Hepburn efforts, it inspired a brief 1973 TV series starring Ken Howard and