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The Philadelphia Story
Directed by
George Cukor
Not Rated
1940
1h 53m
Comedy
,
Romance
7.8
100%
92%
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After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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Cast of The Philadelphia Story
Cary Grant
C.K. Dexter Haven
Katharine Hepburn
Tracy Lord
James Stewart
Macaulay 'Mike' Connor
Ruth Hussey
Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie
John Howard
George Kittredge
Roland Young
Uncle Willie
John Halliday
Seth Lord
Mary Nash
Margaret Lord
Virginia Weidler
Dinah Lord
Henry Daniell
Sidney Kidd
Lionel Pape
Edward
Rex Evans
Thomas
King Baggot
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Hillary Brooke
Main Line Society Woman (uncredited)
Veda Buckland
Elsie (uncredited)
Lita Chevret
Manicurist (uncredited)
Russ Clark
John the Chauffeur (uncredited)
David Clyde
Mac (uncredited)
Robert De Bruce
Dr. Parsons (uncredited)
Dorothy Fay
Main Line Society Woman (uncredited)
Claude King
Uncle Willie's Butler (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Florine McKinney
Main Line Society Woman (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Bartender (uncredited)
Hilda Plowright
Librarian (uncredited)
Helene Reynolds
Main Line Society Woman (uncredited)
Mildred Shay
Main Line Society Woman (uncredited)
Joseph Sweeney
Butler (uncredited)
Sally Cleaves
Party Guest (uncredited)
Oliver Cross
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Dick Gordon
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Party Guest (uncredited)
Frank McLure
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Paul Power
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Ellinor Vanderveer
Party Guest (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Party Guest (uncredited)
George Cukor
Director
Waldo Salt
Writer
Donald Ogden Stewart
Writer
Philip Barry
Writer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Producer
The Philadelphia Story Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
This is a paste diamond with more flash and sparkle than a true one. The director, George Cukor, has never been more heartlessly sure of him- self.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Katherine Howard
Miss Hepburn has accomplished the thing she set out to do with both movie and stage play. She has made the showmen who labeled her boxofrice poison eat their words and rue the day they were ever so uncomplimentary.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
Barry's sprightly lines and the almost equally bright additional Stewart dialogue, of course, make the play the thing. But, frankly, it would be hard to imagine The Philadelphia Story without Katharine Hepburn.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
The Hepburn genius, long left a-smouldering in oblivion, blazes forth brightly in the screen version of the Phillip Barry stage play.
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
Katharine Hepburn gives the finest performance of her career.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Colvin McPherson
In its 112 minutes' running time, The Philadelphia Story offers brand-new ideas on the upper classes, brand-new laughs at the expense of everybody, delicately detailed characterizations, full of human warmth and reality, and superb direction.
Associated Press
Robbin Coons
Miss Hepburn, who left Hollywood one of its "failures," thus becomes the year's most brilliant "comeback."
Boston Globe
Globe Staff
Taken altogether, Philadelphia Story is cinema entertainment of the blue ribbon, gold medal, knockout-in-one-round class.
Arizona Republic
Republic Staff
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart comprise the starring trio, sharing honors so perfectly it would be impossible for a reviewer to choose a top performance.
Detroit Free Press
Frank P. Gill
[The Philadelphia Story] follows the stage version very closely, but adds new touches of brilliant and amusing dialog and some exceptionally fine performance on the part of the cant as a whole.
Los Angeles Times
Edwin Schallert
Miss Hepburn, as a comedienne, is perhaps a greater star than she ever was at any prior cinema period, as a serious actress. This comes near being her champion achievement.
The New Yorker
John C. Mosher
The film is a Hepburn triumph, and moviegoers who resent the theatre's habit of requisitioning their stars may feel that Miss Hepburn's time on the stage has not been spent in vain and that she simply prepared herself for this achievement.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
In short, The Philadelphia Story lifts the daily drudge into a charming never-never land, with complete footnotes excusing its existence. And besides, it's a good, entertaining show.
Film.com
Mark Bourne
Every time Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart connect in a scene, we hear the happy ding! of quality champagne crystal.
Variety
Herb Golden
The smarties are going to relish Philadelphia Story a lot more than the two-bit trade...
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
George Cukor gives it the royal treatment with a splendid supporting cast...
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
Is The Philadelphia Story about cutting Katharine Hepburn down to size?
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A seamless comedy about a priggish, upper-crust beauty who finally gets her comeuppance and learns some tolerance.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
Its witty dialogue, romantic complications, and class-skewering satire are hallmarks of screwball comedy, but it's a more mature and humanistic social satire, a comedy of manners skewering every kind of snobbery.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
It has been a long time since Hollywood has spent itself so extravagantly, and to such entertaining effect, upon a straight upper-crust fable, an unblushing apologia for plutocracy.
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