The Philadelphia Story (Criterion Collection)

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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
	Lionel Pape	Edward
	Rex Evans	Thomas
	King Baggot	Wedding Guest
	Hillary Brooke	Main Line Society Woman
	Veda Buckland	Elsie
	Lita Chevret	Manicurist
	Russ Clark	John
	Sally Cleaves	Party Guest
	David Clyde	Mac
	Oliver Cross	Wedding Guest
	Robert de BRUCE	Dr. Parsons
	Dorothy Fay	Main Line Society Woman
	Dick Gordon	Wedding Guest
	Sam Harris	Party Guest
	Claude King	Uncle Willie's Butler

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Director	George Cukor
Writer	Donald Ogden Stewart, Philip Barry, Waldo Salt
Producer	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Musician	Franz Waxman
Photography	Joseph Ruttenberg

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A gift to Beth from me for her birthday, 2021

With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era’s most iconic leading lady-thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord (Hepburn, at her most luminous) against various romantic foils, chief among them her charismatic ex-husband (Cary Grant), who disrupts her imminent marriage by paying her family estate a visit, accompanied by a tabloid reporter on assignment to cover the wedding of the year (James Stewart, in his only Academy Award–winning performance). A fast-talking screwball comedy as well as a tale of regret and reconciliation, this convergence of golden-age talent is one of the greatest American films of all time.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Jeanine Basinger
In Search of Tracy Lord, a new documentary about the origin of the character and her social milieu
New piece about actor Katharine Hepburn’s role in the development of the film
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
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme

New cover by Fernando Vicente

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