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 The Philadelphia Story 

What grade would you give this film?
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 The Philadelphia Story 
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The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart. Based on the Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, the film is about a socialite (Hepburn) whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband (Grant) and a tabloid magazine journalist (Stewart). Written for the screen by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, it is considered one of the best examples of a comedy of remarriage, a genre popular in the 1930s and 1940s, in which a couple divorce, flirt with outsiders and then remarry – a useful story-telling ploy at a time when the depiction of extramarital affairs was blocked by the Production Code.

The film was Hepburn's first big hit following several flops, which had led to her being included on a list that movie theater owners compiled of actors they considered to be "box office poison." She acquired the film rights to the play, which she had also starred in, with the help of Howard Hughes, in order to control it as a vehicle for her movie comeback.

The Philadelphia Story was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning two: Stewart for Best Actor and Donald Ogden Stewart for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was adapted in 1956 as the musical High Society, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.

In 1995, The Philadelphia Story film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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I love it the morning after the party, before the end of the movie. It's probably the best scene in the movie. The cast here is uniformly great and Katharine Hepburn sure was yare, wasn't she? This is a movie that lends itself to repeated viewings, and I've yet to grow tired of it.

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A little bit good, but a little bit of an angry, unfunny bore.
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Watch 'Holiday', Manohla!


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I have watched and preferred 'Holiday'


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It's a very unpleasant film, and the attitude toward women is really harsh and nasty- even for 1940.

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I don't normally do this but I had to turn this movie off. I guess comedy can age poorly.

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