From ‘His Girl Friday’ to ‘The Heat’: The Evolution of Female Comedies (Photos)

From Katherine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" to Melissa McCarthy in "The Heat," here's a look at some of the greatest female characters in film history.

BORN YESTERDAY (1950)
Don't let Billie Dawn's glass-shattering voice and platinum hairdo fool you, this is no dumb blonde. The mistress (Judy Holliday) of a corrupt tycoon gets schooled in the finer points of civics by an idealistic journalist (William Holden) and discovers that underneath the malapropisms is a brain to go along with all that beauty.

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