Product: Holiday (1938)
Rating: 4.0
Lovely Old-Fashioned Fun
OK, it's a little bit corny and a little bit predictable, but it's still a great deal of fun.Johnny Case (Cary Grant) met the wealthy Julia Seton (Doris Nolan) on holiday, fell in love, and plans to marry her. But she didn't tell him she was filthy rich. When he gets to the address she gave him and sees it's a huge mausoleum of a marble palace, he naturally goes to the servants' entrance. Shocked that he came to see "Miss Julia" at this door, the butler escorts him upstairs. There he meets Julia's older sister Linda (Katherine Hepburn).Now, you know Hepburn is the female star, and so it's not too hard to guess the rest of the plot. Money, prestige and stuffed shirts on one side, especially Julia's father. High spirits, concern for real people, and creative impulses on the other. Julia is of the first camp; Linda of the second. Johnny's dear friend Professor Potter (Edward Everett Horton; remember him as the voice of "Fractured Fairy Tales" on Rocky & Bullwinkle?) and his wife, along with Linda and Julia's alcoholic brother, are on the other.Guess who wins. Actually, to come right down to it, the audience wins.