Born Yesterday

Winslow Corbett, WHAT's answer to Judy Holliday, stars as Billie Dawn in the classic Born Yesterday. Junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends on Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, Billie Dawn. Brock hires newspaperman Paul Verrall to soften Billie's rough edges, but gets more than he bargained for as Billie absorbs Verall's lessons on life Inside the Beltway. "A riotous satire of American democracy and its susceptibility to the influence of capitalistic greed... Born Yesterday could have been written yesterday, but in fact its keen-edged veracity has endured undimmed since it first saw stage lights in 1946 [Detroit News]