The Philadelphia Story

Year: 1940
Production Country: USA
Directed by: George Cukor
Featuring: Katharine Hepburn / James Stewart / Cary Grant / Ruth Hussey
Running time: 112min
Certificate: U

Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Cary Grant star in George Cukor’s classic, classy comedy.

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The film that more than any other rescued Katharine Hepburn’s declining screen career, The Philadelphia Story is a blissful triangulation of Grant, Stewart and Hepburn in a glamorous setting which makes the upper classes seem classy and wears its opulence as emotional savoir-faire. ‘We all go haywire at times, and if we don’t maybe we ought to,’ as Liz says. The film fashions magical occasions for people to find their senses and their spouses when slightly off their heads.

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