{"id":9494,"date":"2014-08-26T01:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9494"},"modified":"2014-08-26T20:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:48:35","slug":"a-tale-of-two-born-yesterdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9494","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Born Yesterdays"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BornYesterday1950_BR\"<\/a>Twilight Time’s release of the Born Yesterday<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(1950) on Blu-ray kind of mandated a need to check out both George Cukor’s original film and Luis Mandoki’s 1993 version (from Buena Vista \/ Disney) starring Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, and John Goodman in the roles previously inhabited by Judy Holliday, William Holden, and Broderick Crawford.<\/p>\n

The 1993 isn’t especially good – it’s a big steaming misfire packed with miscalculations – and in the long & windy review I try to address why it fumbles so badly right from the start, whereas the 1950 film remains so potent.<\/p>\n

I would love to see Kanin’s own 1956 live TV version, but that’s perhaps an impossibility. Apparently this episode of the Halmark Hall of Fame<\/strong>\u00a0was broadcast in colour, but perhaps a B&W kinescope survives somewhere in the vaults of the Paley Center for Media.<\/p>\n

A review of Brick Mansions <\/strong>will follow shortly, but here’s a short gallery of the posters\u00a0designed to sell\u00a0Born Yesterday<\/strong> to 1950s audiences, plus some snarky editorial quips:<\/p>\n

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\"BornYesterday_1950_US_poster2___b\"<\/a>

U.S. poster, with an emphasis (sigh…) on big actor heads.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"BornYesterday_1950_Fr_poster___b\"<\/a>

Literal translation from French: “How the Spirit Comes to Women:”<\/p><\/div>\n

\"BornYesterday_1950_Ital_poster___b\"<\/a>

Red means sexy in this Italian poster. Billie in a red dress means super-sexy, especially with big actor heads peering through giant glasses.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"BornYesterday_1950_German_poster__b\"<\/a>

Literal translation from German: “She is not from Yesterday.” Okay! I Got it!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cheers,<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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