Judy Holliday (The Marrying Kind) won the 1950 Best Actress Oscar for her brilliant and funny role as Billie Dawn the dumb blonde girlfriend of Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford - All The King's Men) a corrupt millionaire junk dealer. Brock a man with social ambitions and a willingness to do anything to fulfil them is embarrassed by Billie's crass behaviour and lack of social sophistication. So he arranges for her to take a crash course in culture from a young journalist (William Holden - The Bridge on th..