Judy Holliday - Trouble Is A Man

Due to the success of her portrayal of Billie Dawn in “Born Yesterday,“ for which she won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Actress, Judy Holliday was forever type-cast as a dumb blonde in all her movie roles, this, despite the fact that she had an I.Q. of 172. She only made a few films, and during the last years of her life, she divided her time between recording and appearing on stage. Her last movie “Bells Are Ringing“ (1960) was the film adapation of the stage play for which she won the 1957 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. During the last five years of her life, she battled breast cancer and finally succumbed to the disease on June 7, 1965 at the age of 43. In 1958 at the age of 37, she recorded a solo album entitled “Trouble Is A Man.“ Though not a great singer, she proved herself to be a great stylist. A reviewer of the album remarked that there was more to singing than just hitting the right notes - there was also technique and style. Miss Holliday