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Holiday

Name: Holiday
Director: George Cukor
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Released: 1938
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

1938 · Directed by George Cukor · 97 min · Comedy · Romance · Drama · 22 frames

Tagline

Every day's a holiday... when you're in love.

Crew

Screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart, Sidney Buchman
Cinematography: Franz Planer
Edited by: Otto Meyer, Al Clark
Music: Sidney Cutner
Produced by: Everett Riskin

Cast

Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton
Cary Grant as Johnny Case
Doris Nolan as Julia Seton
Lew Ayres as Ned Seton
Edward Everett Horton as Nick Potter
Henry Kolker as Edward Seton
Binnie Barnes as Laura Cram
Jean Dixon as Susan Potter
Henry Daniell as Seton Cram
Edward Biby as Churchgoer (uncredited)

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Columbia Pictures
Themes: new year's eve, sibling relationship, holiday, romcom, sister, free spirit, best friend, mansion, alcoholic, millionaire

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More by George Cukor

My Fair Lady — 1964
Gaslight — 1944
The Women — 1939
Let's Make Love — 1960
Born Yesterday — 1950
Adam's Rib — 1949
A Star Is Born — 1954
Little Women — 1933
Camille — 1936
The Philadelphia Story — 1940

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