Holliday played Brooklynite Ella Peterson, an answering-service operator who cannot resist playing Cupid for her customers; she was joined by Martin as a blocked playwright.
In the partly unscripted movie, directed by Craig Zobel, which opens on Sept. 14 at the Angelika Film Center in Manhattan, Mr. Holliday plays Clarence, a music producer-in-training.
THE CROWD On a recent Friday around midnight, Billie Holliday played overhead as a jovial, racially mixed crowd of 20- and 30-something careerists mingled in chunky glasses, plaid shirts and fluttery summer dresses.
Consider Kene Holliday, who plays Crooks, the lone black man on the ranch.
By John Lahr When it was first produced, in 1946, Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday" made a star of Judy Holliday, who played Billie Dawn, the bimbo turned bookworm.
When it was first produced, in 1946, Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday" made a star of Judy Holliday, who played Billie Dawn, the bimbo turned bookworm.
Lady Chatterley's Lover (BBC One) - Holliday Grainger plays the love-struck Lady, as part of a series of BBC adaptations of classic 20th Century literature.
Winter convened a prominent artist and a novelist — Jack Waters and Sarah Schulman — to play Holliday and Clarke, and to co-write the script with him.
Portraying guilt-crippled American tourists in Rome in John Guare's new play, Polly Holliday and Dick Latessa give off the harsh clarity of certain black-and-white photographs.
"What better time before we go to New England to get this kind of confidence, to get our swagger, to get this off our back so we can play free," Holliday said.
