New York-born comedienne Holliday had her first real film break the prior year as the wronged wife in the Tracy/Hepburn comedy "Adam's Rib" (1949), and her solid supporting turn helped her clinch the role of Billie, a role she'd done on Broadway. With its witty screenplay and "Pygmalion"-like story, the result was pure gold, netting Holliday the Best Actress Oscar for 1950, and jump-starting her film career in earnest. Broderick is wonderfully crude as her pre-occupied husband; Holden performs the unheralded job of straight man with finesse; and Judy is just fantastic. This is one smoothly paced comedy from master George Cukor.