Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

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9tb> Bmant % j Actually, Judy Holliday's decision to ploy a witless dame was a stroke of genius By Gladys Hall AS I uncovered my typewriter, not two minutes ago, to begin work on this piece about Judy Holliday, I sounded a note of warning in my own ears. "Now, my girl," I said, "let's not get cute about this thing by pretending to be surprised that Judy Holliday is not the dumb blonde she played for so long in "Born Yesterday" on Broadway, nor the equally dumb blonde she played in "Adam's Rib" in Hollywood nor yet the return-engagement-dumb-blonde she is now playing in the film version of "Born Yesterday" for Columbia Pictures. "Let's vary the formula," I advised myself, "by omitting to mention that Judy's grade-school I.Q. was 172 (she was the age of ten at the time!) or, if we must mention it, let's forget the ubiquitous exclamation point. Let's not put in, with a simulated air of glad surprise, the biographical fact that at an age when other moppets were reading "The Bobbsy Twins" our girl, Judy, was poring over the tortured tales of Turgenef, Tolstoy's "War And Peace," Dostoyefsky's grim "The Brothers Karamazov" and the very adult like. "Let's take it in stride," I said to me, "that she's written songs (published), skits and sketches (played), is writing A Book, a novel, collects antiques and can't be foxed by dealers, cooks to beat the Cordon Bleu, is married to a musi Judy and Bill Holden sightseeing Washington during location work for "Born Yesterday."