The Philadelphia Story (2 Discs)

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Call Number: DVD Comedy Philadelphia
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Title from web page.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1940.
Special features: audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Jeanine Basinger; new introduction to actor Katharine Hepburn's role int he development of the film by documentarians David Heeley and Joah Kramer; In search of Tracy Lord, a new documentary about the origin of the character and her social milieu; two full episodes of the Dick Cavett show from 1973, featuring rare interviews with Hepburn, plus an excerpt of a 1978 interview from that show with director George Cukor; Lux radio theatre adaptation of the film from 1943, featuring an introduction by filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille; restoration demonstration; trailer; essay by Farran Smith Nehme.
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart.
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.
DVD.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Jimmy Stewart's character is such a dummy about the women. submitted by lisa on July 25, 2019, 1:54pm And Cary Grant's is so condescending as to seem unappealing to a contemporary viewer. Boy does the man have to know everything in this film. There's a particularly chagrinning bit in which Katherine Hepburn's character's father ---the film going along with it--- blames his having cheated on her mother on his daughter's not having been a sufficiently doting daughter. For real! I kid you not.

But I've still seen the film several times. Yar. She was yar. The kid singing the Lidia the Tattooed Lady song. The tension around standing up to the corrupt power-wielding publisher. I dunno. Even the drunk socialite and her jerk fiance. There's definitely something to it.

80 years ago Hepburn was supposed to be the cat's meow. Watching her now she is getting on my nerves. submitted by Tassos on March 7, 2023, 6:02pm Not thrilled with this supposedly big hit. Don't have the patience to suffer Hepburn's annoying and silly rants for another hour or two.