1938 · screwball · class-satire · romantic-comedy
Holiday
Directed by George Cukor1h 37m1938
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!
Our read: Holiday (1938) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded screwball · class-satire · romantic-comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle screwball / class-satire, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
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“You want sparkling Grant-Hepburn screwball wit about money versus living fully.”
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