Holiday [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures ; produced by Everett Riskin ; screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman ; directed by George Cukor.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 11416 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Summary language: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish Original language: English Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2006]Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1404986197
- 9781404986190
- Director of photography, Franz Planer ; editor, Al Clark, Otto Meyer.
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Main Library | DVD | COMEDY Holiday | Checked out | 05/18/2024 | 33111005293887 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of supercharged star power. Katharine Hepburn and Doris Nolan play Linda and Julia Seton, two daughters of a very well-to-do family. Linda feels a bit lost in the shuffle as sister Julia prepares to marry self-made financier Cary Grant. Hepburn has always rebelled against her privileged trappings, and finds a kindred spirit in the unorthodox, iconoclastic Grant. On the verge of compromising his down-to-earth values with his marriage to the wealth-obsessed Nolan, Grant chooses instead to plight his troth with soul-mate Hepburn, celebrating his "liberation" by doing several cartwheels. Donald Ogden Stewart is careful to bring the pre-Depression frivolities of the Barry play up-to-date, first by changing the character of Grant's best friend (played in both films by Edward Everett Horton) from a lazy socialite to a dedicated professor, and by including several lines indicating how out of touch the privileged classes are--and choose to remain--with 1930s realities. The only element in which the remake does not improve on the original is in the casting of Hepburn's alcoholic younger brother; charming though Lew Ayres is in the 1938 film, he is still outclassed by Monroe Owsley in Holiday (1930). Katharine Hepburn managed to temporarily defray her "box office poison" onus when Holiday proved to be a success; alas, her next film, Bringing Up Baby (which reteamed her with Grant), was a financial bust, compelling her to return to Broadway--where she made a spectacular comeback in another Philip Barry play, The Philadelphia Story. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based from the play by Philip Barry.
DVD release of the 1938 motion picture.
Special features: "Cary at Columbia" featurette; deleted scene photographs.
Director of photography, Franz Planer ; editor, Al Clark, Otto Meyer.
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell.
Johnny gets engaged to the girl of his dreams, only to find out she's a millionaire's daughter whose father wants to be in control of their lives. Add to that a sister who is falling for Johnny, and he needs to decide who to marry and what to do.
Not rated.
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital, remastered in high definition.
Closed-captioned.
In English, with English, French, Korean, Portuguese, or Spanish subtitles.