Philadelphia Story/Dvd, Criterion Collection, DVD
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Academy Award Winner, Cary Grant, Categories, Claude King, Comedy Video, CRITERION, Criterion Collection, David Clyde, Donald Ogden Stewart, Dorothy Fay, Florine McKinney, Franz Waxman, George Cukor, Helene Whitney, Henry Daniell, Hilda Plowright, Hillary Brooke, James Stewart, Jimmy Stewart, John Halliday, John Howard, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Katharine Hepburn, Lee Phelps, Lionel Pape, Lita Chevret, Mary Nash, Philip Barry, Rex Evans, Roland Young, Russ Clark, Ruth Hussey, Veda Buckland, Virginia Weidler, Waldo SaltWith this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play 'The Philadelphia Story', Hepburn snapped up the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord (Hepburn, at her most luminous) against various romantic foils, chief among them her charismatic ex-husband (Cary Grant), who disrupts her imminent marriage by paying her family estate a visit, accompanied by a tabloid reporter on assignment to cover the wedding of the year (James Stewart, in his only Academy Award winning performance). A fast-talking screwball comedy as well as a tale of regrets and reconciliation, this convergence of golden-age talent is one of the greatest American films of all time.
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