Holliday, Judy Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Bells Are Ringing: Just in Time

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen 50 Years of Funny Females

  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen That's Dancing!

  1985, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen That's Entertainment, Part II

  1976, role: actress , character name: Clip from 'Adam's Rib'
• Play in Full Screen Bells Are Ringing

  1960, role: actress , character name: Ella Peterson
• Play in Full Screen The 12th Annual Tony Awards

  1958, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen The 11th Annual Tony Awards

  1957, role: actress , character name: Herself - Winner: Distinguished Musical Actress
• Play in Full Screen Full of Life

  1956, role: actress , character name: Emily Rocco
• Play in Full Screen The Solid Gold Cadillac

  1956, role: actress , character name: Laura Partridge
• Play in Full Screen Max Liebman Presents: Kaleidoscope

  1955, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Max Liebman Presents: Promenade

  1955, role: actress , character name: Herself - Guest
• Play in Full Screen It Should Happen to You

  1954, role: actress , character name: Gladys Glover
• Play in Full Screen Phffft

  1954, role: actress , character name: Nina Tracey née Chapman
• Play in Full Screen The Marrying Kind

  1952, role: actress , character name: 'Florrie' Keefer
• Play in Full Screen Born Yesterday

  1950, role: actress , character name: Emma 'Billie' Dawn
• Play in Full Screen On the Town

  1949, role: actress , character name: Daisy - Simpkins' MGM Date
• Play in Full Screen Adam's Rib

  1949, role: actress , character name: Doris Attinger
• Play in Full Screen Something for the Boys

  1944, role: actress , character name: Defense Plant Welder
• Play in Full Screen Greenwich Village

  1944, role: actress , character name: Revuer
• Play in Full Screen Winged Victory

  1944, role: actress , character name: Ruth Miller
• Play in Full Screen Too Much Johnson

  1938, role: actress , character name: Extra

Famous quotes by Judy Holliday:

"Grumpy Old Men."

"We were wavering around like a ship without a sail."

"The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent."

"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing."

"Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously."

"I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile."

"People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal."

"It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting."

"You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment."

"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."

"They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness."

"I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home."

"I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable."

"He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!"

"I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times."

"I think Billie is the kind of girl who would let her hips swing loose."

"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."

"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes."

"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am."

"I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American."

Judy Holliday

Born: 1921-06-21

Died: 1965-06-07