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Philadelphia Story, The [Warner Brothers, Special Edition]

DVD/APPROX. 112 MINS./1940/US NR

Main feature:

Release Mar 1, 2005
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio English: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English, French
Studio Warner Brothers
Year 1940
Genre Comedy

Special features:

  • Disc One:
  • Standard screen presentation
  • Dolby Digital 1.0 monaural soundtrack
  • English-only spoken language
  • English, French, and Spanish subtitles
  • Audio commentary with film historian Jeannine Basinger
  • George Cukor movie trailer gallery
  • Disc Two:
  • Documentary: "Katharine Hepburn: All About Me--A Self Portrait"
  • Documentary: "The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor"
  • Short subject: "That Inferior Feeling" with Robert Benchley
  • Cartoon: "The Homeless Flea"
  • Audio-Only Bonus: Two radio adaptations featuring the movie's three stars

Synopsis:



"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 wisecracking scribe. (Writer Donald Ogden Stewart won the film's second Oscar for adapting Philip Barry's play). In 1998, Story's success story continued when it made the American Film Institute's 100 Best American Films list.

Cast and Crew:

Warner Brothers presents
Cary GrantKatherine HepburnJames StewartJohn HallidayJohn HowardRuth HusseyMary NashVirginia WeidlerRoland Young"Philadelphia Story, The"
Written byDonald Stewartproduced byJoseph L. Mankiewicz
directed byGeorge Cukor
Production Year: 1940

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