The Philadelphia Story
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Movie Reviews of The Philadelphia Story
Movie Review: The Philadelphia Story
Summary: 5 Stars
These actors are the best and the movie is a classic that stands the test of time.Movie Review: The Philadelphia Story 1940 (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Summary: 5 Stars
Just about everything that blue-chip comedy should have - a witty , romantic script , the flavor of high-society elegance and a splendid cast of performers . . Sophiscated romatic comedy archieved its pinnacle in this timeless classic voted one of the topp 100 American Films all time by American Film Institute . Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) , Cary Grant (1904-1986) , James Stewart (1908-1997) star in the masterful comedy (directed by George Cukor 1899-1983) about a faultfinding bride-to-be sociate who gets her comeuppance. (Writer Donald Ogden Stewart 1894-1980 won the film's second Oscar for adapting Philip Barry's (1896-1949) play) . High Quality Transfer . Many Funny features .Movie Review: hilarious.....
Summary: 5 Stars
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY is the kind of screwball comedy that other screwball comedies aspire to be, though, rarely succeed. For starters, there is a tour de force cast made up of some of the most accomplished and well respected actors in the industry, who surged in popularity during the era that the film was released (Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart). Secondly, nothing is left unexamined in the story, which takes an honest look at the events leading up to the wedding day for the lead character, Tracy Lord (Hepburn) a spoiled socialite, who promptly threw her ex-husband out of the her home (Grant)--literally! Yet, it's the next occurance right afterwards that became one of the most well-recognized scenes from Katherine Hepburn's film repertoire. Grant's character promptly marches up to Tracy Lord and pushes her down, face first!
What's more, the reporter hot on the trail of Lord is falling in love with her.
This film is brilliant, funny and incomparable. What's more, time has been very kind to it and it doesn't seem dated at all. It'll leave you laughing.
Movie Review: The Philadelphia Story
Summary: 5 Stars
George Cukor's pitch-perfect adaptation of Philip Barry's hit play marked a triumphant Hollywood comeback for Kate (having earlier been labeled "box-office poison" by exhibitors), and an Oscar-winning vehicle for up-and-coming star James Stewart, wonderful as a fish out of water in high society. Though overlooked by the Academy, Grant is every bit as good as the raffish C.K., while Hepburn shines in what may be her signature role. Don't miss Roland Young's hilarious turn as naughty Uncle Willie. Sly and sophisticated, this title stands as one of our finest screen comedies.Movie Review: Tremendous Aplomb
Summary: 5 Stars
No need to chronicle the miracle that this vehicle wrought in Kate Hepburn's career, sufficing to say that Howard Hughes bought the rights for her and she took it from success on Broadway to Hollywood gold with tremendous aplomb. She insisted on control of director (Cukor) and co-stars (Grant and Stewart) and her gambit paid big dividends. The rest is movie magic.
Hepburn portrays a Main Line divorcee on the eve of Wedding Number Two. Grant is Husband Number One and Stewart is the initially-under-cover reporter there to chronicle `An Intimate Day with a Society Bride' for "Spy" magazine. Hepburn's character is the one to watch as she grows from a distant goddess to a flesh and blood woman, but it is fair to say that one and all undergo some pretty rooty tooty transformations before The End.
Marvelous moments abound--it is playwright Philip Barry's masterpiece, after all. Favorites...
Hepburn and Virginia Weidler's send up of the Main Line drawl, complete with the lockjaw pose is dead on--people in Bryn Mawr and Chester County Horse Country still talk like that if you can believe it.
Droll moments include the witticisms about South Bend (Hepburn says vaguely, "It sounds like dancing, doesn't it?), about Duluth (Hepburn again: Duluth. That must be a lovely spot. It's west of here, isn't it?), of Stewart's friends ("Of whom you have many, I'm sure...").
And Weidler's over the top rendition of "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady".
The witty repartee holds throughout the film, and at one point, perhaps the key moment in the film, Barry gives Hepburn's character Tracy Lord the best line in this or any film, "The time to make up one's mind about someone is (pause) never."
The ending is one of the three or four ideal wedding endings in film, along with "The Graduate", "It Happened One Night" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral".
P. S. The play was remade as the musical "High Society" with Bing, Blue Eyes and soon-to-be Princess Grace, which is not half bad. But "The Philadelphia Story" is better, and among the best 20 films of all time.