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Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's hilarious performance puts zest into an overlong adaptation of the Garson Kanin stage hit (TIME...
...give Strauss's 76-year-old Viennese farce of double identities and doubles entendres a shining new face,* he called on Playwright-Director Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin. Lyricist (Inside U.S.A.) and M-G-M Vice President Howard Dietz supplied Kanin's "free adaptation" with a new English-speaking voice. Designer Rolf Gerard was recruited to repeat his earlier scenic success with Don Carlo; pint-sized Conductor Eugene Ormandy was borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The only thing not touched: Strauss's score, which, says Kanin, was "protected like a delicate child...
...next new production, due in December: Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, staged by Broadway and Hollywood's topnotch director, Garson Kanin...
From the start it is clear that Greer Garson has been stricken with one of those dread, nameless Hollywood diseases that will kill her off in the last reel. She receives the news with a chin-up, clear-eyed gallantry that has her doctor blubbering. When Walter Pidgeon, her remarkably obtuse husband, finally catches on, he too is reduced to choked-up admiration. Meanwhile, Greer gently discourages a U.S. colonel (John Hodiak) who is in love with her, straightens out the affairs of her nitwit daughter (Cathy O'Donnell), and sets right the tangled marriage of a British general...
...time to celebrate is when you're admitted to the family," said Irish-born Cinemactress Greer Garson (now Mrs. Elijah E. Fogelson) as she slipped into Fort Worth to apply for U.S. citizenship...