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The Philadelphia Story (1940)

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The Philadelphia Story Cast

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Cary Grant

C.K. Dexter Haven
Katharine Hepburn

Tracy Lord
James Stewart

Macaulay Connor
Ruth Hussey

Elizabeth Imbrie
John Howard

George Kittredge
Roland Young

Uncle Willie
John Halliday

Seth Lord
Mary Nash

Margaret Lord
Virginia Weidler

Dinah Lord
Henry Daniell

Sidney Kidd
King Baggot

Extra as Wedding Guest
Hillary Brooke

Main Line Society Woman
Lita Chevret

Manicurist
Dorothy Fay

Main Line Society Woman
Florine McKinney

Main Line Society Woman
Lee Phelps

Bartender
Mildred Shay

Main Line Society Woman

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Release Date

23 December 1940

Genre

Comedy, Romance

Country

USA

Filming Locations

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Language

Sound Mix

Color

Film Type

Film Class

Sophisticated Comedy, Screwball Comedy, Romantic Comedy

Themes

Otherwise Engaged, Wedding Bells

Tones

Talky, Bright, Stylish, Witty, Literate, Elegant, Easygoing

Wikipedia

The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart. Based on the Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, the film is about a socialite (Hepburn) whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband (Grant) and a tabloid magazine journalist (Stewart). Written for the screen by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, it is considered one of the best examples of a comedy of remarriage, a genre popular in the 1930s and 1940s, in which a couple divorce, flirt with outsiders and then remarry – a useful story-telling ploy at a time when the depiction of extramarital affairs was blocked by the Production Code.