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| Cover of the Criterion Collection edition of Holiday d. George Kukor |
Movie Review
Holiday (1938)
d. George Kukor
It's funny, but for all the translated literature and foreign films I take in, it is Hollywood movies from the mid part of the 20th century that often seem the most foreign to me. Basically, movies, made by Hollywood before the Nouvelle Vague revolution swept through America in the 60's, are as strange to watch as anything. Who are these people? Holiday is best known as a foreshadowing of The Philadelphia Story, which was also directed by George Kukor and also starred Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.
Based on a 1928 play by Philip Barry, Holiday stars Cary Grant as Johnny Case, the fiancé of Julia Seton (Doris Nolan) and sister of Linda Seton (Hepburn), who as luck would have it, are the daughters of insanely wealthy New York plutocrat Edward Seton Sr. Like every movie based on a play, the whole movie takes places in a series of interiors- mostly the Seton mansion. The plot is more interesting than you might expect from the set-up, Grant, an up and comer in "business" only wants to work long enough to drop out and smell the roses, which does not play well with Seton Sr.
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