PHILADELPHIA STORY - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Plot: With 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 acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Odgen 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 regret and reconciliation, this convergence of golden-age talent is one of the greatest American films of all time.
• Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler, Henry Daniell, Lionel Pape, Rex Evans, King Baggot, Hillary Brooke, Veda Buckland, Lita Chevret, Russ Clark, David Clyde, Robert De Bruce, Dorothy Fay, Claude King, Eric Mayne, Florine McKinney, Lee Phelps, Hilda Plowright, Mildred Shay, Joseph Sweeney, Helene Whitney, George Cukor, Donald Ogden Stewart, Philip Barry, Waldo Salt, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Joseph Ruttenberg, Franz Waxman
• Director: George Cukor
• Runtime: 1:52
• Company: Turner Entertainment Co., Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie