George Cukor is not as swift with the screwball as Hawks or Sturges, but does a nice job of permitting sentiment to show through and also of location shooting in Washington. Garson Kanin’s source play is witty and topical, and the two contrasting male leads, Broderick Crawford as the loutish junk magnate in DC to buy congressmen, and William Holden as the reporter enlisted to sand some of the rough edges off the boss’s dame, are very effective, but of course this is a one-woman show, and Judy Holliday brings it off with Oscar-winning bravura, the grating dumb blond gradually morphing into the touching, smarter-than-she-looks woman of spirit. (1950, dvd, n.) *7+*
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