Author: Will Holtzman
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Year of Publication: 1982
Pages: 306
Photos: 35 black and white photos


(The following overview is taken directly from the inside cover of the book jacket.)

"Though she elevated the "dumb blond" from cliche to classic in Born Yesterday, she was the most intelligent actress in Hollywood with a genius IQ of 172. At the peak of her success as the toast of Broadway in Bells Are Ringing, she was shattered when her lover Sydney Chaplin walked out on her. The instant that Hollywood stardom struck, her joy turned to ashes as the U.S. Senate tried to smear her as a Communist.

She was Hollywood's most touching star--the funny and poignant Judy Holliday: brilliant, vulnerable, loving but unlucky in love and doomed to an early death at forty-two.

Judy Holliday was the quintessential New York Jewish girl. Despite suffocating family ties and a mother who'd had a mental crack-up, Judy was ever the total daughter. She struggled with weight problems and was so insecure about her looks that she was always shocked when she turned heads in restaurants.

Her tempestuous love affair with Chaplin, her long-term relationship with jazz legend Gerry Mulligan (who helped her survive the nightmare of cancer and mastectomy) and the associations with Jack Lemmon, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein, all make Judy Holliday as moving and original as its unique subject."



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