The Philadelphia Story

Director: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Cary Grant, Ruth Hussey

The film that more than any other rescued Katharine Hepburn‘s declining screen career, The Philadelphia Story is a blissful triangulation of Cary Grant, James Stewart and Hepburn in a glamorous setting which makes the upper classes seem classy and wears its opulence as emotional savoir-faire. ‘We all go haywire at times, and if we don’t maybe we ought to,’ as Liz says. The film fashions magical occasions for people to find their senses and their spouses when slightly off their heads.