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www.bbc.co.uk - : Recently divorced from the charismatic but deeply unreliable playboy Dexter Haven (Grant), Philadelphia heiress and full-time ice-maiden Tracy Lord (Hepburn) is about to tie the knot again. Her next groom, George (Howard), is the respectable, considerate type but frankly a little on the dull side. Nose slightly out of joint and ever sceptical, Haven arrives for the classy ceremony with two reporters from Spy magazine in tow, Macaulay Connor (Stewart) and Liz Imbrie (Hussey). Together the trio set out to find a scandal and throw a rather large spanner in the society works. more...
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www.toxicuniverse.com - : Two key elements of great American film of the classic era are star power and the ability to work within cinematic convention while reinventing it. Perhaps this is what makes The Philadelphia Story such a compelling and intelligent screwball comedy. Two years after the monumental Bringing Up Baby, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant return, this time with James Stewart, in one of the most complex and rewarding screwball comedies of all time. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : If ever a production was endowed with an over-abundance of what normally represents the epitome in entertainment it is ''The Philadelphia Story,'' based on the play by Philip Barry, scenarized by Donald Ogden Stewart and directed by George Cukor. It is a superb blending of upper class domestic manifestations and its accompanying dementia crossed with the sort of plain talk and reasoning that would humanize a statue. It is also the best effort Katherine Hepburn has yet put forth. And the same might be said of James Stewart and Cary Grant, if it isn't too late. Because together they attain heights in the focal points of a love quadrangle full of originality, humor and substance. Farce seldom begets realism, but this film is the direct antithesis of studio portraiture. It's more like an exhibitor's dream. more...
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