George Cukor’s Oscar-winning comedy-drama in which a nouveau-riche junk dealer hires a cultured gent to teach his girlfriend about etiquette. Starring Judy Holliday, William Holden and Broderick Crawford.
Adapted from the stage play of the same name by Garson Karin, which premiered on Broadway four years earlier, the story concerns harsh blonde moll Billie Dawn, (Judy Holliday) who arrives in Washington, D.C., with her dishonest, very rich darling sweetie, Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford), and his corrupt attorney, Jim Devery (Howard…