Holiday

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An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancée's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as well as a thoughtful reflecti...

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Barry, Philip, 1896-1949 Film adaptations

Betrothal Drama

Man-woman relationships United States Drama

Sisters Drama

Social stratification Drama

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Drama

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ISBN:

9781681436746

Uniform Title:

Holiday (Motion picture)

Edition:

Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 Blu-ray disc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : illustrations ; 17 cm)
4 3/4 in
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digital
optical
mono
videodisc
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray
region A

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: G

Other Title:

Container of (work): Holiday (Motion picture : 1938)
Container of (work): Holiday (Motion picture : 1930)

Notes:

Title and credits from screen
From the stage play by Philip Barry
Originally released as a motion picture in 1938
Full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio)
Special features: New 4K digital restoration; Holiday (1930), a feature film which was a pre-code version directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Robert Ames and Edward Everett Horton; New conversation between filmmaker and distributor Michael Schlesinger and film critic Michael Sragow; Audio excerpts from an American Film Institute oral history with director George Cukor; Costume gallery; plus on insert, an essay by critic Dana Stevens
Cinematography, Franz Planer; editors, Otto Meyer, Al Clark
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell
Optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
In English

Control Number:

3015399

UPC:

715515239813

Other Authors:

Ames, Robert, 1889-1931, actor
Astor, Mary, 1906-1987, actor
Ayres, Lew, 1908-1996, actor
Barnes, Binnie, 1903-1998, actor
Buchman, Sidney, 1902-1975, screenwriter
Columbia Pictures Corporation, production company
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Cukor, George, 1899-1983, film director
Daniell, Henry, 1894-1963, actor
Dixon, Jean, 1896-1981, actor
Grant, Cary, 1904-1986, actor
Griffith, Edward H., 1888-1975, film director
Harding, Ann, 1902-1981, actor
Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003, actor
Horton, Edward Everett, actor
Kolker, Henry, 1874-1947, actor
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Barry, Philip, 1896-1949. Holiday
Nolan, Doris, 1916-1998, actor
Riskin, Everett, film producer
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 1894-1980, screenwriter

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