Notes on…

Holiday(1938)

Dir. Directed by George Cukor


Did you have a little accident, Ned?
So they say. I don't seem to have been there when it happened.

A not so Brief Encounter.


Holiday’s energy derives from the way Grant and Hepburn occupy the space they share, moving with an informality and freedom that set them apart from the rest of the cast and thereby, somehow, proving their romantic compatibility to the audience even before they recognize it themselves.

Dana Stevens (Criterion)

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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!