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Like “Brewster’s Millions,” Monday’s 4 p.m. offering on TCM appears is currently unavailable on DVD. I first saw Richard Quine’s “The Solid Gold Cadillac” (1956) during its original run at Radio City Music with Aunt Rose Lauria. Taking a role that was played in George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichman’s play (adapted for the screen by Abe Burrows), by the much older Josephine Hull (of “Arsenic and Old Lace” and “Harvey” fame), Judy Holliday is charming as a very small stockholder who takes on a giant corporations’ corrupt board of directors, including John Williams and Fred Clark. There’s great chemistry between Holliday and Paul Douglas, who starred opposite her in the stage version of Garson Kanin’s “Born Yesterday” but got replaced by Broderick Crawford in George Cukor’s movie edition. The witty voice-over narration for “The Solid Gold Cadillac” is delivered by George Burns, who had not appeared on the big screen since “Honolulu” (1939) and would not be seen there again until “The Sunshine Boys” (1975). “The Solid Gold Cadillac” won an Oscar for Jean Louis’ costumes and was also nominated for art direction, back in the days when there were separate categories for black-and-white movies.

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