Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star in Broadway's Twentieth Century. Host Ferrer never got a chance to deliver the speech he had planned in honor of Actress Swanson's Oscar. After the news came over the radio from Hollywood that Judy Holliday had won the best-actress award (for the dumb blonde in Born Yesterday), Gloria Swanson gave an impromptu message of her own to the nightclub audience: "Naturally, I'm disappointed. The Old Grey Mare has got to get going again, that's all. Tomorrow's another day. I'll have to start trying...
Till Prensa speaks, let us be dumb...
Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who eventually wises up, Judy Holliday steals the show in this movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...
...side of virtue stood the committee's sharp, relentless counsel, Rudolph Halley, and the senatorial members of the committee who sat in New York. Opposed was a sullen collection of superbly tailored racketeers, gimlet-eyed gamblers, dumb cops, venal politicians and slick lawyers who looked as though they had trooped in from Hollywood's Central Casting bureau...
Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...