Product: Holiday (1938)
Rating: 4.0
Delightful "Holiday" for the viewer too
By 1938, Cary Grant had finally loosened up after half a dozen years of mainly stodgy performance as a Paramount contract player. Credit director George Cukor and maybe even Katharine Hepburn for the breakthrough in the 1936 flop "Sylvia Scarlett" when suddenly Grant bloomed on screen. In "Holiday", the trio came together again and "Holiday" was as liberating for Hepburn as it was for Grant. They are a great team. The story has an angle about life and money which adds enormously to the appeal. The supporting cast are first rate and Jean Dixon, one of my favourites, has a small but pivotal role which she makes memorable as usual.Amazon themselves have posted a first rate review so I merely confirm that the DVD print is very good, there is a pleasant featurette about the film which runs over into a subsequent Grant film "Only Angels Have Wings" and some information about an introductory scene set at Lake Placid which was an attempt by the writers to "open up" the play but cut from the released film by Cukor because it added nothing.The DVD is best value if purchased as part of the "Cary Grant Signature Collection", a gem of a box set.