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Sunday, September 23, 2018


     The Philadelphia Story
1940  NR  COMEDY  1h 52min
CAST— Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Virginia Weidler, Mary Nash, Henry Daniell, Hillary Brooke
MUSIC— Franz Waxman  DIRECTOR— George Cukor  BASED ON— The Philadelphia Story (play), by Philip Barry

     High society meets sophisticated humor in this award-winning film with a truly outstanding cast. Katherine Hepburn plays a snobbish divorcee planning to remarry. Her life suddenly turns upside down when her ex-husband invades her home with a reporter and photographer from a national high class magazine, Spy. As she is forced to play nice with the guests, she plays mean with her ex, all the while fighting her feelings for two different men. What she truly wants out of life is love and compassion, and only one man can offer her that. While one man views her as a goddess, the other views her as a lonely soul, desperate for affection. Choices, choices. While written with a keen edge, the film does tend to be a bit too talkative and overlong, but the end result is a comedy that pays off quite nicely. Oscar-winner for Best Actor (James Stewart) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.
OUR RATING— ***
REMADE AS— The Philadelphia Story (1959)

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