Judy Holliday
Biography
Judy Holliday (born Judith Tuvim; June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965) was an American actress, comedian and singer.
She began her career as part of a nightclub act before working in Broadway plays and musicals. Her success as Billie Dawn in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday led to her being cast in the 1950 film version for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She was known for her performance on Broadway in the musical Bells Are Ringing, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and reprising her role in the 1960 film adaptation.
In 1952, Holliday was called to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to answer claims she was associated with communism.
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Full filmography
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- What's My Line? (1950) as Self
- The Steve Allen Show (1956) as Self - Guest
- On the Town (1949) as Daisy (voice) (uncredited)
- Born Yesterday (1950) as Billie Dawn
- Adam's Rib (1949) as Doris Attinger
- Bells Are Ringing (1960) as Ella Peterson
- On Cukor (2000) as Various roles (archive footage)
- That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) as (archive footage)
- It Should Happen to You (1954) as Gladys Glover
- Winged Victory (1944) as Ruth Miller
- Phffft (1954) as Nina Chapman Tracey
- Greenwich Village (1944) as Revuer (Uncredited)
- The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) as Laura Partridge
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976) as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
- Something for the Boys (1944) as Defense Plant Welder (uncredited)
- Too Much Johnson (2013) as (uncredited)
- The Marrying Kind (1952) as 'Florrie' Keefer
- Full of Life (1956) as Emily Rocco
- She Loves Me Not (1949) as Curly