Born Yesterday
NR, 103 min.
Directed by George Cukor, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford.

Judy Holliday steals the show as the dumb blonde whose gangster boyfriend wants her to acquire some culture, so he hires her a tutor. Needless to say, the plan backfires and dumb blondes are rarely as dumb as they seem. The timing of this revival is also handy in that Woody Allen’s new movie, Small Time Crooks, which opens next week, owes more than a little to this comic predecessor.

This article appears in May 5 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.