#Judy Holliday

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday, Bells Are Ringing)—this woman had an IQ of 172!! she was a jewish new yorker!! investigated for communist sympathies and named no names!! tony and oscar winning actress!! leonard bernstein thought of marrying her???? which part of this is not fabulous i ask you that right now

Mary Anderson (Lifeboat)—no propaganda submitted

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut]

Judy Holliday:

Mostly remembered for beating screen legends Gloria Swanson and Bette Davis at the Oscars for her performance as ditzy blonde Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday, Judy Holliday was an incredible actress whose charm, vulnerability, and humour impressed Katharine Hepburn so much that Hepburn helped her secure the role of Billie Dawn in the screen adaptation of Born Yesterday by getting her a role in 'Adam's Rib', starring Hepburn and Tracy, when Judy was deemed 'too unknown'. Holliday was also an incredibly smart Jewish leftist, who played the ditzy blonde part again when pulled up by HUAC for 'communist sympathies'. She never named names and managed to avoid getting blacklisted. What a queen. She also had an incredible and unique voice and one of the best smiles in the business.

HOT. FUNNY. JEWISH. BLONDE. WOMAN.

She was a singer, dancer, comedienne, and Oscar-winning actress (for Born Yesterday), and she had a gorgeous curvy Cinderella vibe that is everything to me. The part of Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain was written for her, but after she won her Academy Award the producers realized she was far too big a star for a supporting role, so her friend Jean Hagen did a perfect impression of how Judy would play it, and she got the part!

SOMEONE PLEASE TALK ABOUT BELLS ARE RINGING??? HELLO??? THE FUNNIEST COMEDIENNE MY GOD SMART AND FUNNY AND HOT AS HELL?

Judy Holliday was the whole package--actress, singer, dancer, and comedienne--she lights up the screen in such a powerful way that she outshines everyone else. Here she is in a supporting role in Adam's Rib (1949) giving her statement to lawyer (Katharine Hepburn) on why she shot her cheating husband [editor's note: tw for domestic abuse & murder mentions] In every movie I've seen her in my heart goes out to her, she's so authentic and beautiful. She's proof that it takes smart to play dumb, and can make me laugh and cry in the same scene let alone the same movie. Film historian Bernard Dick on Holliday: "Perhaps the most important aspect of the Judy Holliday persona, both in variations of Billie Dawn and in her roles as housewife, is her vulnerability... her ability to shift her mood quickly from comic to serious is one of her greatest technical gifts." She won the Oscar for Best Actress (beating out Gloria Swanson, Bette Davis, and Anne Baxter) for her performance in Born Yesterday.

#mary anderson #judy holliday #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 1

[eyesfullofmoon]

Jewish Old Hollywood actresses

• Hedy Lamarr

✡︎ Born to a Galician-Jewish father and Hungarian-Jewish mother.

• Lauren Bacall

✡︎ Both her mother and father were Jewish. Her father was born to parents who were born in Valozhyn, a predominantly Jewish community in present-day Belarus.

• Shelley Winters

✡︎ Born to Jewish parents, Winters' education included attendance at the Jamaica Jewish Center in Queens, New York and learning Hebrew songs at her public school.

• Theda Bara

✡︎ Born to Jewish parents.

• Paulette Goddard

✡︎ Born to a Jewish father.

• Sylvia Sidney

✡︎ Born to a Romanian-Jewish mother and Russian-Jewish father.

• Judy Holliday

✡︎ Born Judith Tuvim (she took her stage name from yom tovim, which is Hebrew for "holidays") to a Russian-Jewish father, who was executive director of the foundation for the Jewish National Fund of America, and a Russian-Jewish mother.

• Alla Nazimova

✡︎ Born to Russian-Jewish parents.

• Piper Laurie

✡︎ Born to Jewish parents. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and her maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia.

• Carmel Myers

✡︎ Born to a Russian-Jewish father, who was a rabbi, and an Austrian-Jewish mother.

#hedy lamarr #lauren bacall #shelley winters #theda bara #paulette goddard #sylvia sidney #judy holliday #alla nazimova #piper laurie #carmel myers #old hollywood #* #1910s #1920s #1930s #1940s #1950s #jewish

[citizenscreen]

Richard Conte and Judy Holliday in Richard Quine’s FULL OF LIFE (1956)

#richard conte #judy holliday #classic movies

[gatutor]

Jack Lemmon-Judy Holliday "Phffft!" 1954, de Mark Robson.

#Judy Holliday #Jack Lemmon #Mark Robson

[womansfilm]

What's My Line? July 5, 1953

#i miss herrrrrrrrrrrrr 😭🫶🏼 #judy holliday #what's my line? #what's my line #m

[ladybegood]

Judy Holliday on the set of It Should Happen to You (1954)

#Judy Holliday #It Should Happen to You #vintage #old hollywood #ladybegoodscan

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Judy Holliday: Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday (1946 Broadway); Georgina Allerton in Dream Girl (1951 Broadway); Ella Peterson in Bells Are Ringing (1956 Broadway)

Bambi Linn: Louise Bigelow in Carousel (1945 Broadway); Alice in Alice in Wonderland (1947 Broadway); Blanche Bushkin in I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Judy Holliday:

you have no idea how much work i had to do to hunt down this picture of her cause it’s just that hot

(Editor’s note: I used said picture as her main poll picture)

Bambi Linn:

#vintagestagehotties #vintagestagepoll #vintage tournament #vintage poll #judy holliday #bambi linn #ladies round 1 #vintage ladies

[hollywoodlady]

Judy Holliday in 'Born Yesterday', 1950.

#judy holliday #Born Yesterday #50's #by lady hollywood

[frogeye-pierce]

JUDY HOLLIDAY & JEAN HAGEN in ADAM'S RIB (1949)

#sorry sorry if this is already out there a bunch but it made me so happy <3 a suit moment :)) #judy holliday #jean hagen #adam's rib #film

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday, Bells Are Ringing)—Judy Holliday was the whole package--actress, singer, dancer, and comedienne--she lights up the screen in such a powerful way that she outshines everyone else. Here she is in a supporting role in Adam's Rib (1949) giving her statement to lawyer (Katharine Hepburn) on why she shot her cheating husband [editor's note: tw for domestic abuse & murder mentions] In every movie I've seen her in my heart goes out to her, she's so authentic and beautiful. She's proof that it takes smart to play dumb, and can make me laugh and cry in the same scene let alone the same movie. Film historian Bernard Dick on Holliday: "Perhaps the most important aspect of the Judy Holliday persona, both in variations of Billie Dawn and in her roles as housewife, is her vulnerability... her ability to shift her mood quickly from comic to serious is one of her greatest technical gifts." She won the Oscar for Best Actress (beating out Gloria Swanson, Bette Davis, and Anne Baxter) for her performance in Born Yesterday.

Carmen Sevilla (La fierecilla domada/La mégère apprivoisée, La Venganza, King of Kings)— One of the few spanish actresses to really make it in Hollywood. She worked opposite Charlton Heston in the 1970s and reportedly slapped him but that is past the cut-off so you can look it up for yourselves. There's also rumors that Frank Sinatra had a bit of a crush on her and asked her out a couple of times but she rejected him. The woman was just messy as hell in general and an absolute icon. Bless.

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Judy Holliday:

Mostly remembered for beating screen legends Gloria Swanson and Bette Davis at the Oscars for her performance as ditzy blonde Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday, Judy Holliday was an incredible actress whose charm, vulnerability, and humour impressed Katharine Hepburn so much that Hepburn helped her secure the role of Billie Dawn in the screen adaptation of Born Yesterday by getting her a role in 'Adam's Rib', starring Hepburn and Tracy, when Judy was deemed 'too unknown'. Holliday was also an incredibly smart Jewish leftist, who played the ditzy blonde part again when pulled up by HUAC for 'communist sympathies'. She never named names and managed to avoid getting blacklisted. What a queen. She also had an incredible and unique voice and one of the best smiles in the business.

HOT. FUNNY. JEWISH. BLONDE. WOMAN.

She was a singer, dancer, comedienne, and Oscar-winning actress (for Born Yesterday), and she had a gorgeous curvy Cinderella vibe that is everything to me. The part of Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain was written for her, but after she won her Academy Award the producers realized she was far too big a star for a supporting role, so her friend Jean Hagen did a perfect impression of how Judy would play it, and she got the part!

SOMEONE PLEASE TALK ABOUT BELLS ARE RINGING??? HELLO??? THE FUNNIEST COMEDIENNE MY GOD SMART AND FUNNY AND HOT AS HELL?

this woman had an IQ of 172!! she was a jewish new yorker!! investigated for communist sympathies and named no names!! tony and oscar winning actress!! leonard bernstein thought of marrying her???? which part of this is not fabulous i ask you that right now

#carmen sevilla #judy holliday #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 2 #Youtube

[chaplinfortheages]

Charlie Chaplin's son Sydney and Judy Holiday during the Broadway production of "Bells are Ringing", for his role as Jerry Moss in 1957 he won a Tony Award. In 1960 the play became a movie, while Judy Holiday kept her role, his went to Dean Martin.

#sydney chaplin #judy holliday #“bells are ringing” #broadway production

[citizenscreen]

Aldo Ray and Judy Holliday in George Cukor’s THE MARRYING KIND (1952) '

#aldo ray #judy holliday #old hollywood #classic movies

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Gloria Swanson awaits the results of the Best Actress Oscar at a cafe on West 52nd St., April 2, 1951. At left is her fellow nominee and the eventual winner, Judy Holliday.

Photo: Slim Aarons via Getty Images/Global Art

#vintage New York #1950s #Slim Aarons #Gloria Swanson #Oscars #Academy Awards #Judy Holliday #April 2 #2 April #awards #waiting

[dlasta]

#Born Yesterday (1950) #judy holliday #her voice! #the card playing scene *alone* is pure gold #Youtube

[oscar-nominee-tournament]

Oscar Nominee of All Time Tournament: Round 1, Group A

(info about nominees under the poll)

CAROLE LOMBARD (1908-1942)

NOMINATIONS:

Lead- 1936 for My Man Godfrey

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JUDY HOLLIDAY (1921-1965)

WINS:

Lead- 1950 for Born Yesterday

#oscars #academy awards #oscar nominees #oscar winners #actors #film #carole lombard #judy holliday #my man godfrey #born yesterday 1950 #nominees group a #nominees group a polls

[vintagestagehotties]

Round 1 Losers Highlights: Judy Holliday

#losers highlights #judy holliday