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Philadelphia Story, The (MGM) (1940)
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"Hollywood's most wise and sparkling comedy.All the performances are just perfect."-Halliwell's Film Guide
Here comes the bride!And the ex-husband.And a gossip-rag columnist on assignment.Here come Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart in a peerless comedy romance (directed by George Cukor) about a faultfinding, bride-to-be socialite who gets her comeuppance and an unexpected Mr. Right.
After being labeled "box-office poison," Hepburn rekindled her stardom with a beguiling reprise of her 1939 Broadway role.Top-billed Grant demanded and got a then-colossal $137,000 salary -- donating it to British War Relief.And Stewart won his only Best Actor Academy Award as the w | | |
