Director George Cukor's 1950 screen adaptation of Garson Kanin's hit play, Born Yesterday, is a classic of movie comedy, revolving around a corrupt junk dealer (Broderick Crawford) who comes to Washington to "buy" a congressman or two. Fatally, he brings along a Sleeping Beauty, his chorine mistress, Billie Dawn (the great, the unique Judy Holliday in her OscarTM-winning performance); under the ministrations of a newspaperman (William Holden) hired to "refine" her, Billie awakens to an appreciation of her own shrewd brain-and the nastier ways of her bully boyfriend.