DVD
Holiday
Call Number
- DVD COMEDY (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
Summary
Two years before stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and director George Cukor would collaborate on The Philadelphia Story, they brought their timeless talents to this delectable slice of 1930s romantic-comedy perfection, the second film adaptation of a hit 1928 play by Philip Barry. Grant is at his charismatic best as the acrobatically inclined free spirit who, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancée's aristocratic family--setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, Holiday is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as well as a thoughtful reflection on what it truly means to live well.
Notes
From the stage play by Philip Barry.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1938.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; new conversation between filmmaker and distributor Michael Schlesinger and film critic Michael Sragow ; audio excerpts from an American Film Institute oral history with director George Cukor, recorded in 1970 and '71 ; costume gallery.