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6 de nov. de 2017 · 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 <I>The Philadelphia Story</I>, Hepburn snapped up the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay ...
8 de mar. de 2005 · The Philadelphia story has always seemed to me to have a feeling of finally taming the screwball heroine before she moved on to Film Noir and became VERY menacing. Compare Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant's relationship in Bringing Up Baby, the film I always think about when watching Philadelphia Story.
23 de abr. de 2017 · Before Katharine Hepburn ever met Spencer Tracy, she wanted him as her costar in this film. George Stevens’s <I>Woman of the Year</I>, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Hepburn had made in <I>The Philadelphia Story</I>, is the story of rival newspaper reporters who wed only to find that their careers aren’t so compatible, and in it the pair forged a fresh and realistic vision of ...
<p>Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made—a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn ...
7 de nov. de 2017 · 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 ...
The Philadelphia Story Warner Bros. 2005 Two-Disc Special Edition DVD MGM 1997 DVD (USA) Warner Bros. 2005 Two-Disc Special Edition DVD (USA) Warner Bros. 2005 DVD (USA) Warner Bros. 2009 DVD (USA) The Criterion Collection 2017 DVD (USA) The Criterion Collection 2017 Blu-ray (USA)
2 de ago. de 2017 · If you read up further in the thread, there's pretty good evidence that titles like Barry Lyndon and Philadelphia Story are from a second batch of titles that were likely not part of the original agreement, which probably means things are fairly stable for a few years (and also I'm foolishly willing to believe that Warners will actually extend licensing through to Indicator, which probably ...
29 de ago. de 2008 · Even the best among them (The Philadelphia Story, A Star Is Born, Gaslight, A Woman’s Face) have (as mentioned by others above) a stiffness and proscenium arch formality that feels off-putting. He could never cut loose like Howard Hawks, layer a sly undertext beneath a genteel surface like Ernst Lubitsch, or really just give himself over to his material like Vincente Minnelli.
16 de abr. de 2024 · Random bit of info I guess, but I was looking through some data and found it interesting that out of the studios Warner Bros. (who at one point had a strict no-licensing policy) has licensed the most titles to Criterion: They've licensed 72 films to them.
29 de ene. de 2016 · 901 - The Philadelphia Story 902 - Desert Hearts 903 - Jabberwocky 909 - Night of the Living Dead 913 - The Age of Innocence 915 - King of Jazz 917 - The Awful Truth 925 - Midnight Cowboy 929 - Female Trouble 938 - Sex, lies, and videotape 941 - Smithereens 942 - The Tree of Life 944 - Cold Water 945 - A Raisin in the Sun 947 - Shampoo 951 ...
