Product: Holiday (1938)
Rating: 5.0
"I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny."
A gem of a comedy. Cary Grant is in love with a rich socialite (Doris Nolan), but he doesn't share her (or her father's) ideas about money: the buck is not almighty to him. It just so happens that her sister (Katherine Hepburn) agrees with him totally. Of course Haepburn has to remain loyal to her sister, until Grant can't stand the manipulating of his life and calls it quits, at which point Nolan says she doesn't really love him. Now Kate goes after her man. Grant is slightly miscast as the happy-go-lucky Johnny who can do backflips (he's a bit stiff in the role), but just slightly. Kate is wonderful as is the supporting cast, especially Jean Dixon and Edward Horton as Grant's goofy friends, and Lew Ayres as Kate's drunken brother. Based on the Philip Barry play, the movie is close to being perfect.