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wrote, "Just in time to make itself evident as one of the best pictures of this fading year is
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Catholic columnist William H. Mooring decried the film as "clever film satire strictly from Marx." In 1951, the film was picketed by the Anti-Communist Committee of the Catholic War Veterans because Holliday and Kanin were affiliated with organizations on the U.S. attorney general's list
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declared, "An excellent adult comedy ... What really puts the picture over is the brilliant performance of Judy
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Broadway hit play, 'Born Yesterday.' The bright, biting comedy of the Garson Kanin legit piece adapts easily to film and there is every indication that key-city audiences will give it a hearty ticket play."
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