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Born Yesterday 1950. Columbia
Director: George Cukor
Cast:      Judy Holliday
                William Holden (Paul Verrall)
                 Broderick Crawford, Howard St John,
                Larry Oliver, Frank Otto
Screenplay:Albert Manheimer,Garson Kanin,
                 from the play by Kanin.

Harry Cohn paid $1 million for the screen rights to Garson Canin's hit Broadway comedy "Born Yesterday" ,then balked at the idea of having its star, Judy Holliday,(who he called * that fat Jewish broad*) recreate the role of Billie Dawn on film. Fortunately,after seeing her in "Adam's rib" he changed his mind and a new Hollywood star was born.
Holliday was quite superb as the "dumb broad' ex-showgirl and turned in a performance that mingled laughter and pathos in equal portions,. ( and gave her the year Oscar for best actress). Broderick Crawford played the role of the relentlessly cruel, totally selfish profeeter ,unccouth junk-merchant who hires a liberal writer to tutor Billie in the social and intellectual graces.
As the writer who takes Holliday on a guided tour of Washington, inculcates in her an appreciation of some of the finer things in life, then falls in love with her, director George Cukor casted (to perfection) William Holden. Holden's sensitivity in the role blended well with Holliday's warmth and their on-screen love affair was one of the joy of the cinema year.

Force of Arms 1951.
Warner Brothers
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast:      William Holden (Sgt. Joe 'Pete' Peterson)
                Nancy Olson, Frank Lovejoy,
                  Gene Evans, Paul Picerni,

Updated to WWII version of Hemingway's "A farewell to arms" pairs again Holden with Nancy Olson and the film was heralded as *The most beautiful love story ever told*
it should have been" the most dull love story ever told"
the actors are good but they do not have any chemistry.
It was one of Holden's lesser movies.