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The Solid Gold Cadillac is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Richard Quiney released in USA on 22 august 1956 with Judy Holliday
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
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Add to a movie listThe Solid Gold Cadillac is a 1956 film directed by Richard Quine and written by Abe Burrows, Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman. It was adapted from the hit Broadway play of the same name by Teichmann and Kaufman, in which they pillory big business and corrupt businessmen. The film stars Judy Holliday and Paul Douglas. The film is in black-and-white except for the very last scene, which is in Technicolor.
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At a shareholders meeting for International Projects, a billion dollar corporation, John T. Blessington (John Williams) announces that he is replacing Edward L. McKeever (Paul Douglas), the company's founder, president and chairman of the board, as McKeever is resigning to go work for the federal government in Washington DC. Laura Partridge (Judy Holliday), a minority stockholder with just ten shares of stock, drives its arrogant, self-serving executives to distraction with her incessant questioning during this and subsequent meetings.Actors
Judy Holliday
(Laura Partridge)
Paul Douglas
(Edward L. McKeever)
Fred Clark
(Clifford Snell)
John Williams
(John T. 'Jack' Blessington)
Hiram Sherman
(Harry Harkness)
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