Holiday (1938)

Director:

George Cukor

Writers:

Philip Barry (play)
Donald Ogden Stewart (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

15 June 1938 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

So daring -- so tender -- so human -- so true -- that everyone in love will want to see it!

Plot:

Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, with...

Plot Keywords:

Piano | Free Thinker | Social Class | Somersault | Trapeze

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Katharine Hepburn	...	Linda Seton
Cary Grant	...	John 'Johnny' Case
Doris Nolan	...	Julia Seton
Lew Ayres	...	Edward 'Ned' Seton
Edward Everett Horton	...	Professor Nick Potter
Henry Kolker	...	Edward Seton
Binnie Barnes	...	Mrs. Laura 'The Witch' Cram
Jean Dixon	...	Mrs. Susan Elliott Potter
Henry Daniell	...	Seton 'Dopey' Cram
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Harry Allen	...	Scotchman (scenes deleted)
Frank Benson	...	Scotchman (scenes deleted)
Aileen Carlyle	...	Farm Girl (scenes deleted)
Edward Cooper	...	Scotchman (scenes deleted)
Robert Hale	...	Scotchman (scenes deleted)
Margaret McWade	...	Farmer's Wife (scenes deleted)
Frank Shannon	...	Farmer (scenes deleted)
Charles Trowbridge	...	Banker (scenes deleted)
Marion Ballou	...	Portrait of Grandmother Seton (uncredited)
Beatrice Blinn	...	Maid (uncredited)
Thomas Braidon	...	Downstairs Butler Admitting Johnny (uncredited)
Maurice Brierre	...	Ship's Steward (uncredited)
Leonard Carey	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
Mabel Colcord	...	Setons' Cook (uncredited)
Luke Cosgrave	...	Portrait of Grandfather Seton (uncredited)
Beatrice Curtis	...	Maid (uncredited)
Ann Doran	...	Kitchen Maid (uncredited)
Neil Fitzgerald	...	Edgar, Butler at Party (uncredited)
Bess Flowers	...	Dorothy, Party Guest on Staircase (uncredited)
Mitchell Harris	...	Jennings (uncredited)
George Hickman	...	Telegraph Boy (uncredited)
Howard C. Hickman	...	Man In Church (uncredited)
Maude Hume	...	Maid (uncredited)
Raymond Largay	...	Man (uncredited)
Raymond Lawrence	...	Butler at Party (uncredited)
Tom McGuire	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
Matt McHugh	...	Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
George Pauncefort	...	Henry, Setons' Primary Butler (uncredited)
Esther Peck	...	Mrs. Jennings (uncredited)
Hilda Plowright	...	Marjorie, Woman in Church (uncredited)
Charles Richman	...	Thayer (uncredited)
Lillian West	...	Mrs. Thayer (uncredited)
Eric Wilton	...	Party Guest (uncredited)

Directed by
George Cukor

Writing credits
Philip Barry		(play)
Donald Ogden Stewart		(screenplay) &
Sidney Buchman		(screenplay)

Produced by
Everett Riskin	....	producer

Original Music by
Sidney Cutner		(uncredited)
Paul Mertz		(uncredited)
Joseph Nussbaum		(uncredited)
Ben Oakland		(uncredited)

Cinematography by
Franz Planer		(photography)

Film Editing by
Al Clark
Otto Meyer

Art Direction by
Stephen Goosson		(as Stephen Goossón)

Costume Design by
Robert Kalloch		(gowns) (as Kalloch)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Cliff P. Broughton	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Lionel Banks	....	associate art director
Babs Johnstone	....	interior decorator

Sound Department
Lodge Cunningham	....	sound (uncredited)

Music Department
Morris Stoloff	....	musical director

Other crew
Paul Flato	....	jeweller

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation (presents)

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1938) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia Pictures (1949) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Columbia Pictures Television (USA) (TV)
• Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2003) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1998) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Columbia TriStar (2004) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2006) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Free to Live (UK)
Unconventional Linda (UK) (reissue title)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Certification:

South Korea:12 | Australia:G | Finland:S | Germany:o.Al. | Portugal:M/6 | UK:U | USA:Approved (PCA #4269)

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Edward Everett Horton repeats the role of Nick Potter, which he also played in the previous version of the film, Holiday (1930).

Goofs:

Continuity: The amount eaten from the apple between shots When Johnny is in the playroom with the bitten apple in his hand.

Quotes:

Edward 'Ned' Seton: Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Two Can Play That Game (2001)

Soundtrack:

Vienna Blood

Excellent Picture

This collaboration between Kathryn Hepburn and Cary Grant is not seen often enough. The two are as at ease with one another as they are in the better known film "Bringing Up Baby". In this film, rather than a tame leopard, they are teamed with a dipsomaniac brother, soured on his future by a father whose parenting skills are either anemic or entirely lacking.

The Potters, Nick and Susan, are the secret treasure in this film. They are so relaxed, and so full of joie d'vivre that even having first seen it as a small boy, I was impressed with just how much fun this college professor and his wife were, that I wanted to be a professor myself, at the ripe old age of 10.

There may be a connection, or there may not, but I have been involved in higher education, from being an undergraduate to an employee in an academic library, for 32 years. At any rate, I think it more likely that this picture, and pictures like "Tall Story" and the "Absent-minded Professor" (with Fred McMurray) had more of an influence than "Bedtime for Bonzo".