The Philadelphia Story
Just an old fashioned love story... coming down in multi-harmony. Cary Grant & Katherine Hepburn are the stars but the winner of the Academy Award is James (Jimmy) Stewart (Best Actor). The movie opens with Tracy Lord (Haven at the time)(Kate Hepburn) throwing her husband out of house & home. When she breaks a golf club over her knee, C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) can't take it anymore. He wants to hit her but gives her the 'pie-face', instead!

Tracy Lord is such a snob she can only see the faults in everyone else, not herself. She's set to remarry, this time to to George Kittredge (John Howard). On the eve of the marriage the editor of Spy Magazine, Sidney Kidd (Henry Daniell), sends a reporter, Macauley Connor (James Stewart), & photographer, Liz Imbrie (Ruth Hussey) to do an expose on Tracy's cheating father, Seth Lord (John Halliday).

The dialog is fast & there's quite a few zingers along the way. In the end Tracy gets her comeuppance & gets the man she's always wanted. This film saved the career of Hepburn, made Stewart a star & Grant would still be big.

The course of true love... ...gathers no moss.
Perhaps not my favorite classic, but The Philadelphia Story is a great adaptation of the play with some of the greatest actors of their day.

Now I am only twenty so this was out far before my years, but it certainly kept my attention and will sit high in my list of favorite films.

Macaulay Connor(James Stewart) stumbling around with Tracy Lord(Katharine Hepburn) drunk on champagne, and previously meeting with C.K. Dexter Haven(Cary Grant) in my mere opinion is oscar worthy in itself.

" Well, this is where Cinderella gets off, now you hurry back to the ball before you turn into a pumpkin and six white mice, goodbye. "

Not to mention I adore anything where Katharine Hepburn plays a cold, but misunderstood woman of privilege. Oh wait...

It is a film I will truly treasure in my collection.

Top ten movies of all time!
The Philadelphia Story
This is one of the top ten greatest films ever made. You won't be disappointed with your purchase and it makes a great gift. If you like Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn try 'HOLIDAY'. The cast is fantastic and the writing is excellent! It is now available in Cary Grants box set or individually. Happy viewing.

Gets better with repeated viewing
I watch this and enjoy it more now watching the interaction between Stewart and Grant. THe dialogue is brilliant - some lines rival Shakespeare, Hepburn is at her best, the jokes are fast and furious like "Hellzapoppin," the supporting cast is superb, as are the clothes and decorating. Some gems "There are rules" - Stewart the gentleman, Hepburn's interaction with Stewart and his girlfriend, How tender everyone is with each other, the Quaker librarian, the scandal with the father and how they handle it.. the double meanings to almost every phrase. You get more each time you watch it - clearly the actors relished working with each other. This is humor at its driest.

Average Film
I really didn't see what made this such a "great" film. It was not bad and somewhat entertaining. However, it was, in my opinion, no greater than many other romantic comedies of that era. I actually fell asleep on it twice.