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...story, fashioned by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon: a frowsy blonde (Judy Holliday) trails her husband (Tom Ewell) to his girl friend's apartment and shoots him, but not fatally. The rest of the movie follows the trial of the assault case in court. Attorney Tracy is defending a husband's right to philander; Attorney Hepburn is fighting for a woman's right to shoot an adulterous husband...
Where Hight Was Right. The late John Holliday, founder of the Indianapolis News, once found height spelled hight in one of his editorials. He stormed into the composing room, where the foreman showed him the word spelled that way in his own copy. Barked Holliday: "If that's the way I spelled it, that's correct." It was hight in the News until a new stylebook came out last year...
...timeliness and relevance. The setting is politically topical, but little chance was taken that ideas become so complex as to get in the way, Long and loud, the laughs hinge on modern-day Malapropism and punchy stuff like the often-mouthed "do me a fayvuh, Harry--dwop dead." Judy Holliday's absence from the road company cast is inescapably conspicuous...
...fact that the cream of their state's 140 weeklies had been quietly bought up by one man. The owner of the lengthening chain, whose southern links now include 14 weeklies, seven dailies and four radio stations, is a little-known U.S. press lord named John Holliday Perry. His Western Newspaper Union is now the world's biggest newspaper syndicate. He is also the man most responsible for the creeping, canned mediocrity that is overtaking a good many of the nation's rural papers...
...blonde-is delightful. After that, plot starts muscling in on character, and the show has its ups & downs. But things are kept moving by enough good gags and two topnotch performances. Radio Sports Announcer Paul Douglas makes a solid character-tough, vicious, yet somehow comic-of Harry Brock. Judy Holliday (Kiss Them for Me), with her flat voice, slow takes and floozie walk, is often wonderful as the blonde. When she sorts her cards in a gin-rummy game, Broadway gets one of the great comedy moments of the season...