Judy Holliday
Bells | Closet Saints | The Subdivision
Neither one was dumb. Judy Holliday and her character in Born Yesterday shared something the world kept mistaking for simplicity — an interior logic that saw clearly while everyone assumed she saw nothing at all. A new piece in the Closet Saints series, tracing her life from 1921 to 1965: the Oscar upset, the HUAC hearing, the musical written as a lifeline, cancer and the return to the stage.
Full essay + collage on the blog. Mature themes and imagery: behanworks(dot)com












