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Judy Holliday (June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965)
was an American actress.  Born Judith Tuvim in New
York City, she began her career on the stage.  Her
first movie was as an extra in Orson Welles's
short film  Too Much Johnson in 1938.  She had a
few more minor roles in in the mid 1940's before
moving back to New York and the stage w/ The
Revuers, a comedy group which included Betty
Comden and Adolph Green.

She made her Broadway debut on March 20, 1945 at
the Belasco Theatre in Kiss Them for Me and was
one of the inaugral recipients that year of the
Theatre World Award. In 1946 she was back on
Broadway as the scatterbrained Billie Dawn in Born
Yesterday. A MGM talent scout saw her performance
in 1949 and cast her opposite Katharine Hepburn
and Spencer Tracy in one of the year's biggest
comedies, Adam's Rib. The part gave her the chance
to star in the film version of Born Yesterday the
next year for which she won the Golden Globe Award
for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or
Comedy|Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best
Actress.

Holliday was called to testify before the House
Un-American Activities Committee to "explain" her
Communism|Communist links, but the appearance did
not blackball her career, unlike the cases of
others in the movie business.

In 1956 she starred in The Solid Gold Cadillac and
in 1960 in Bells Are Ringing, in the role she had
originated on Broadway in 1956 and for which she
had won the 1957 Tony Award for Best Leading
Actress in a Musical.

In 1965 she died from breast cancer and was
interred in the Westchester Hills Cemetery in
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at
6901 Hollywood Blvd.

==Filmography==
*Too Much Johnson (1938) (short subject)
*Greenwich Village (1944)
*Something for the Boys (1944)
*Winged Victory (movie)|Winged Victory (1944)
*Adam's Rib (1949)
*On the Town  (1949) (voice only)
*Born Yesterday (1950)
*The Marrying Kind (1952)
*It Should Happen to You (1954)
*Phffft! (1954)
*The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
*Full of Life (1957)
*Bells Are Ringing (1960)

==Stage Work==

*My Dear Public (1942) (w./ The Revuers)
*Kiss Them for Me (1945)
*Born Yesterday (1946)
*Dream Girl (1951)
*Bells Are Ringing (1956)
*Laurette (1960)
*Hot Spot (1963)