Holiday
About Holiday
After ten days at Lake Placid, Johnny Case (Robert Ames) and Julia Seton (Mary Astor) decide to marry. Only when he meets her family in New York, father Edward, brother Ned, and sister Linda (Ann Harding), does he learn how much money the Setons have. Edward is ready to approve a self-made son-in-law and to put him to work. Johnny wants to leave business while he is young, once his own investments allow it, and take a long holiday until he knows what work he actually wants. Linda, who already fights the rules of the house, backs him. Julia refuses the plan. Linda leaves with Johnny.
Cast & crew
More about Holiday
Edward H. Griffith directed for Pathé Exchange. Horace Jackson adapted Philip Barry's 1928 play. E. B. Derr produced, Norbert Brodine photographed, Daniel Mandell edited, and Josiah Zuro wrote the music. Released July 3, 1930. Edward Everett Horton plays Nick Potter and Hedda Hopper plays his wife Susan. Monroe Owsley plays Ned. William Holden, the stage actor, plays Edward Seton.
Themes
Background
Pathé released it on July 3, 1930, from a 1928 Broadway comedy about a man who wants to stop earning. The Depression was already underway. Ned's drinking is played on screen, which the later Code years would have trimmed.
Making
Pathé hired Harding, who had come from the stage, for Barry's dialogue, and kept Horton's Nick Potter as the friend who sits out the formal party with Linda.
Music
Josiah Zuro is credited with the music. The picture is carried by Barry's dialogue rather than by songs.
Preservation
A complete print circulates, including the file on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Ann Harding plays Linda Seton and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Jackson was nominated for adapted screenplay. Neither won.
- The National Board of Review placed the film on its ten-best list.
- Edward Everett Horton played Nick Potter again in George Cukor's 1938 remake, with Cary Grant as Johnny.
- The William Holden who plays Edward Seton is the older stage actor of that name, not the film star born in 1918.
- Hallam Cooley plays the cousin Seton Cram. Elizabeth Forrester plays Laura.
Awards
- National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Scenes
- Johnny tells Linda he will quit as soon as his own money lets him, and that he will not live on the Seton fortune to do it.
- On New Year's Eve Linda stays in the playroom with Ned and the Potters while Edward's formal party fills the rest of the house.
Influenced by
- Holiday (Philip Barry play)
Influenced
- Holiday (1938)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Holiday (1930).webm)
