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Known for:	Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib, Bells Are Ringing
Birth name:	Judith Tuvim
Birthday:	21 June 1921, New York, New York, USA
Height:	5' 10" (1.78 m)

Despite her image of a "dumb blond", she was actually very smart. Her I.Q was measured at 172. She often said that it took a lot of smarts to convince people that her characters were stupid. Singer. Listed by Madonna as one of her biggest influences Co-wrote and performed songs with jazz legend Gerry Mulligan for the album "Holliday with Mulligan". According to her biographer Gary Carey, Holliday flummoxed the House Unamerican Activities Committee so much (by essentially playing her Billie Dawn character on the witness stand) she ended up being the only person ever called before HUAC who was neither blacklisted nor compelled to name names. During the Broadway musical Bells Are Ringing, she had a brief fling with her co-star Sydney Chaplin, the son of Charles Chaplin. An only child. Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 217-218. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387 Son, Jonathan Oppenheim, is a film editor. Lived in the building where John Lennon was murdered. Dated Nicholas Ray in 1944. Won Broadway's 1957 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for "Bells Are Ringing," a role she recreated in the film version of the same name, Bells Are Ringing. To help build up her image, particularly in the eyes of producer Harry Cohn. Katharine Hepburn deliberately leaked stories to the gossip columns suggesting that Holliday's performance in "Adam's Rib" was so good that it had stolen the spotlight from Spencer Tracy & Hepburn. This got Cohn's attention & Holliday won the part in "Born Yesterday". Her performance as Billie Dawn in "Born Yesterday" (1950) is ranked #96 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006). Son Jonathan Oppenheim born November 11, 1952.

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