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Judy Holliday—Ex-Orange In 'It Should Happen To You/ Judy a friendly, matter-of-fact personality, “when my mother dragged me to a ballet school and threw me in.” Approximately 15 years later, a stage-struck, high-school-graduate Judy went to work for orotund Orson Welles—as a switchboard operator. When not pulling plugs, she and an¬ other young hopeful, Adolph Green, worked on a series of musical comedy skits they had devised with Betty Comden. The skits were sophisticated little burlesques and Holliday and Green were convinced they were ter¬ rific. For a long time they were alone in this conviction. One bleak day in 1938, Judy and Green dropped into a Greenwich Vil¬ lage hide-away called The Village Vanguard, confronted the proprietor, Max Gordon, and persuaded him to use their skits as a floor show. That marked the birth of “The Revuers,” starring Holliday, Green and Comden. The Revuers kidded celebrities, burlesqued musical extravaganzas, of¬ fered a documentary on a man who invented a shoehorn, composed wry The facts are that the offscreen Judy Holliday doesn’t have that voice at all. (She invented it for her role in “Born Yesterday” on the Broadway stage, used it to snag an Oscar in the Hollywood version of the play.) Furthermore—and this may come as a surprise to those who have seen her in four Max Liebman “spectaculars” —she actually learned to sing and dance before she learned to act. “I began my career as a song-and- dance girl at the age of four,” says Judy, a tall (5-foot, 7-inch) trim (120-pound) intermittent blonde with Tony Randall joined Judy in TV drama. 18