Those who are expecting to see Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant in a follow up of "Bringing Up Baby" will be surprised to find "Holiday" at Loew's this week concerns an entirely different kind of wild beast from Baby. Here the beast is riches and all the stuffed shirts that go with it, and the whole movie is a fast moving but fairly serious description of the shortcomings of an extremely wealthy society.
It is one of these get-away-from-it-all stories in which Katherine Hepburn is the black sheep of a millionaire's family while her narrow-minded sister is engaged to an up-and-coming son of a grocery man (Cary Grant). The part of Linda is just made for Miss Hepburn, who turns in a delightful and talented performance. Cary Grant is adequate while Edward Everett Horton shoulders the burden of the comic entertainment. Despite the efforts of each member of the cast, however, the whole effect is not convincing and wavers uncertainly between seriousness and humor.
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