Directed by:
George CukorScreenplay:
Donald Ogden StewartCinematography:
Joseph RuttenbergComposer:
Franz WaxmanCast:
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler, Henry Daniell, Joseph Sweeney (more)VOD (3)
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The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn, at her most luminous) against various romantic foils, chief among them her charismatic exhusband (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). 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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Cary Grant
UK
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
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Katharine Hepburn
USA
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James Stewart
USA
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Ruth Hussey
USA
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John Howard
USA
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Roland Young
UK
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John Halliday
USA
Best movies:
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Peter Ibbetson (1935)
Mary Nash
USA
Best movies:
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Virginia Weidler
USA
Best movies:
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Peter Ibbetson (1935)
Henry Daniell
UK
Best movies:
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Joseph Sweeney
USA
Best movies:
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Hillary Brooke
USA
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Florine McKinney
USA
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Claude King
UK
Best movies:
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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Rex Evans
UK
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Lee Phelps
USA
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Mildred Shay
USA
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Russ Clark
USA
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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Lionel Pape
UK
Best movies:
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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David Clyde
UK
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
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