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Movie
Born Yesterday
Synopsis
This 1993 remake of the 1950 film Born Yesterday (based on the 1946 Garson Kanin stage play) was retooled as a star vehicle for then-marrieds Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Roughneck self-made millionaire Harry Brock (John Goodman) wants to become a powerful Washington lobbyist. Brock's efforts to hobnob with DC uppercrust are compromised by his brash, embarrassingly vulgar mistress Billie Dawn (Melanie Griffith). He'd like to unload the ex-chorus girl, but he thinks he's in love: besides, she knows too much about his crooked dealings to be running around loose. Thus, Brock hires bookish Paul Verrall (Don Johnson) to educate Billie. Verrall does his job amazingly well, awakening Billie to her responsibilities as a loyal, honest American: along the way, the two fall in love. Featured in the cast are Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and his star reporter (and wife) Sally Quinn, cast as DC power brokers. Also appearing in a small role is 1960s starlet Celeste Yarnell.
Cast
- John Goodman
- Melanie Griffith
- Don Johnson
- Edward Herrmann
- Max Perlich
- Michael Ensign
- Benjamin C. Bradlee
- Sally Quinn
- William Frankfather
- Amanda Mackey Johnson
- Fred Dalton Thompson
- Cathy Sandrich
- Celeste Yarnall
- Nora Dunn
- Meg Wittner
- William Forward
- Mary Gordon Murray
- Ted Raimi
- Rondi Reed
- Matthew Faison
- Kate McGregor-Stewart
- Arthur Leeds
- John Wesley
- Andi Chapman
- Drew Snyder
- Terri Hanauer
- John Achorn
- Ann Hearn
- Gordon Reinhart
- Selma Archerd
- Catherine Hausman
- Fred Foh Shen
- Freda Foh Shen
- Marisol Massey
- Leroy Perry Jr.
- Tony Palladino
- Amanda Hendon
- Fritz Sperberg
- Aaron Michael Lacey
- Robyn Renner
- Paul Guyot
- Miranda Garrison
- Philip Toolin
- Stephen J. Traxler
- Rick Simpson
- Lesley Walker
- Naomi Donne
- Amanda Mackey Johnson
- Colleen Atwood
- Cathy Sandrich
- Stephen Traxler
- Fred Blau
- Nancy Patton
- Stratton Leopold
- Lawrence G. Paull
- Lajos Koltai
- Kevin Haney
- Leslie Dixon
- Garson Kanin
- Douglas McGrath
- Bruce Crone
- Michael Wilmot
- Cathy Sandrich Gelfond