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     Holiday
1938  NR  COMEDY  1h 35min
CAST— Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell
MUSIC— Sidney Cutner, Paul Mertz, Joseph Nussbaum, Ben Oakland  DIRECTOR— George Cukor  BASED ON— Holiday (play), by Phillip Barry

     Cary Grant plays Johnny Case, a young man who has just spent a wonderful vacation at Lake Placid where he met the girl of his dreams. When they return to New York, he discovers that she comes from a wealthy family; very wealthy, in fact. Her family’s house has at least four stories and looks like a museum. When she introduces him to her family he immediately strikes up a rapport with them. She has a brother who is never found without an alcoholic beverage in hand, who has a good enough personality but views life as one droll event after another. Then there’s her sister, the self proclaimed black sheep of the family, a restless free spirit who views life as a game, never to be taken too seriously. After breaking the news to her father, a money-hungry curmudgeon of a man, a party is soon planned to announce the engagement. But Johnny soon finds that his fiancée is more like her father, and that he would be happier with a free-spirited woman, much like her sister… The performances are top notch, and the chemistry between Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn is perfect, as always, but unlike other films of this genre, the comedy seems to be lacking. Sad.
OUR RATING— **
ORIGINAL— Holiday (1930)