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The Philadelphia Story
When 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.
1940 · Directed by George Cukor · 113 min · Comedy · Romance · 19 frames
Tagline
Broadway's howling year-run comedy hit of the snooty society beauty who slipped and fell - IN LOVE!
Crew
- Screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart, Waldo Salt
- Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg
- Edited by: Frank Sullivan
- Music: Franz Waxman
- Produced by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast
- Cary Grant as C.K. Dexter Haven
- Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord
- James Stewart as Macaulay 'Mike' Connor
- Ruth Hussey as Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie
- John Howard as George Kittredge
- Roland Young as Uncle Willie
- John Halliday as Seth Lord
- Mary Nash as Margaret Lord
- Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord
- Henry Daniell as Sidney Kidd
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, French
- Studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget: $914,000
- Box office: $3,300,000
- Themes: journalist, philadelphia, pennsylvania, strong woman, photographer, journalism, swimming pool, remarriage, hangover, reporter, black and white
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