Holiday
The Discreet Charm of George Cukor
December 13, 2013 - January 7, 2014
Cukor’s gracious, delicate comic masterpiece follows an eager young businessman (Cary Grant) with a drive for adventure as he gets engaged to a society beauty (Doris Nolan), only to fall instead for her vivacious sister (Katharine Hepburn).
What is the good life? Cukor’s gracious, delicate comic masterpiece follows an eager young businessman (Cary Grant) with a modest fortune and a drive for adventure as he gets engaged to a society beauty (Doris Nolan), only to fall instead for her vivacious sister (Katharine Hepburn). Holiday was a timely reflection on the ways wealth could allure, stifle, destroy, and protect in 1930s America, but it’s much more besides: a celebration of imaginative play, creativity, and performance; a nuanced study of people caught at motivational and social cross-purposes; and one of the great Hollywood meditations on the nature—and cost—of happiness.
Title: HOLIDAY (1938) ¥ Pers: GRANT, CARY / HEPBURN, KATHARINE ¥ Year: 1938 ¥ Dir: CUKOR, GEORGE ¥ Ref: HOL010CH ¥ Credit: [ COLUMBIA / THE KOBAL COLLECTION ]
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