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Holiday
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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   4,628 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Philip Barry (play)
Donald Ogden Stewart (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
15 June 1938 (USA) more
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So daring -- so tender -- so human -- so true -- that everyone in love will want to see it! more
Plot:
Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, with... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
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(10 articles)
Holiday Movies: What's on Tonight? (12/6/09)
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Jacques Tati and French film comedy
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One of Grant's and Hepburn's greatest! more (61 total)

Cast

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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)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Free to Live (UK)
Unconventional Linda (UK) (reissue title)
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Runtime:
95 min
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

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Edward Everett Horton repeats the role of Nick Potter, which he also played in the previous version of the film, Holiday (1930). more
Goofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At the start of the movie, Johnny goes to the Seton mansion and meets the family. Linda wants to plan the party announcing the engagement and tells him, "This Saturday is New Year's Eve." We know this scene takes place on a Sunday, because the family has just returned from church. That would make the date Christmas day. There are Christmas decorations on the walls and door of the church, and the church congregation sings the Christmas hymn "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," which is used exclusively during the Christmas season, often only as the closing hymn on Christmas Day. more
Quotes:
Linda Seton: Someone stop me; O someone please, just try and stop me! more
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Soundtrack:
Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful) more

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Is "Holiday" based on a book?
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18 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
One of Grant's and Hepburn's greatest!, 17 February 2002
10/10
Author: cwpnewpaltz from New Paltz, NY

What can you say when the young, dashing, up and coming lawyer,the extraordinarily handsome and highly unconventional Cary Grant, falls in love with one of the richest women in New York, thinking she's a private secretary and he should use the mansion's service entrance? Well, when her sister is Catherine Hepburn you can say there's bound to be a more interesting ending than he-obligingly-goes-to-work-at-daddy's-bank and counts-money-happily-ever-after. The stars are at their peak with great chemistry, and Lew Ayres and Edward Everett Horton give extremely fine supporting performances. This film has always been one of my anthems, and Johnny Case something of an alter ego; showed it last night to my 28-year old daughter, who loved Johnny Case and now has a better impression of her old man. A real treat of a movie, on a par with Grant's and Hepburn's best.

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