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2 unusual facts about Judy Holliday


Judy Holliday

Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as "Billie Dawn" led to her being cast in the 1950 film version for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

In 1946, she returned to Broadway as the scatterbrained Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday.


Marina Squerciati

For her work in theater, Squerciati won the prestigious Agnes Moorehead Award for her performance as Judy Holliday in the off-Broadway play Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.


see also

It Could Happen to You

It Should Happen to You, a 1954 film with Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon