Tonight it was time for #44 on the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films: The Philadelphia Story from 1940.
It has definitely withstood the test of time. Katharine Hepburn is luminous even in black and white; Cary Grant dashing, and James Stewart honorable.
But I had forgotten how laugh-out-loud funny it is. The writing reflects that it was a Broadway play first. The trailer points out that it had Broadway roaring even at the price of $4.40 a seat! (Gasoline was 18 cents a gallon.)
James Stewart won the Oscar for his role. Katharine Hepburn did not.
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