The Philadelphia Story Movie Streaming
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The Philadelphia Story Movie Streaming.
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In 1940, Katherine Hepburn’s movie career was in desperate condition. Her 1938 film BRINGING UP BABY, although recognized as a Howard Hawks’s masterpiece today, was at the time a box office failure. The failure signaled the temporary raze of ask for her talents in Hollywood, although she had HOLIDAY in the can (and costarring, like both BRINGING UP BABY and THE PHILADELPHIA Account, Cary Grant) . So, she went help to the stage, in a play written specifically for her, and the subsequent hit was an unexpected and triumphant return to the camouflage for Hepburn. Her career never looked serve again, especially when two years later she teamed with Spencer Tracy for the first time. Ironically, she originally requested that Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy play the Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart roles.
THE PHILADELPHIA Narrative is such an extraordinarily well-done film that one can perceive it repeatedly, reveling each time in unique and hidden details. It strikes the perfect balance of being spectacularly well-acted, hysterically comic, and delightfully humorous while maintaining an lovely veneer. The cast is nearly overwhelming in its quality, with Hepburn and Grant turning in especially heavenly performances. Jimmy Stewart is also superior, though he won an Oscar for this year that he probably didn’t deserve. The Academy in 1940 may have been giving him the award as an apology for not having won the year before for MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. Unfortunately, this meant that Jimmy Stewart’s best friend Henry Fonda failed to procure for one of the finest performances in the history of American cinema, as Tom Joad in THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Quiet, although the Oscar clearly should have gone to Fonda, Stewart manages a tremendous turn. He and Grant manage a immense moment when Stewart adlibbed a hiccup, and Grant, not batting an recognize, adlibbed, “Excuse me.” The rest of the cast is flawless. Too many excel to mention, but special mention must be made of Roland Young as Uncle Willie, Virginia Weidler in a trustworthy turn as Tracy Lord’s precocious younger sister, and the erstwhile Errol Flynn nemesis Henry Daniell as the devious and unscrupulous Sidney Kidd.
Although this film holds up magnificently upon reviewings, there is nothing like seeing it for the first time. I remember vividly how fascinating it was to witness this in the lamentably demised Lincoln Theater in Unusual Haven, Connecticut, having absolutely no belief how the film was going to destroy only five minutes before the closing credits. Who will Tracy marry? Will she marry? How will the film managed to tie up all the loose ends.
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I have a list of my all time approved lines from films. One of my favorites comes from this one. On the morning after Tracy has gotten rip-roaringly drunk, she has almost no memories of what happened, but what she does prefer makes her panic that she might have been in a compromising state with Jimmy Stewart. After Stewart assures the confused and stunned Tracy Lord that nothing happened because she was drunk and “there are rules about that sort of thing,” the infinitely relieved Tracy says, “I assume men are unbelievable.”
The film has managed to permeate our culture in subtle ways, from entertaining musical remakes, to providing well-known adult movie stars with their names, to providing foundations for jokes (in the Rocky and Bullwinkle adventure “The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam,” whenever Bullwinkle sees his jewel encrusted miniature boat, he mutters under his breath, “Yar, yar”) .
They get few movies of the level of quality as “The Philadelphia Tale.” This movie is unbiased bulky of life, noble and terrible. Cary Grant, James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn are a trifecta of incredible talent, and they blend together with ease and style. Like trusty people, everyone has their faults and their strengths. Everyone is proper and imperfect at the same time, in their have draw.
The dialog is so astounding, you want to quote it at every opportunity, although your life probably doesn’t provide the opportunity to fall these kinds of quotes. The “High Society” at play, and the lowbrow crashers making their nickels and dimes all the while allowing their pretensions to art…this is astronomical drama.
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The DVD is not particularly arresting, and is a surprising let down for such an improbable film, however a film this expansive doesn’t need extras. The main course is filling enough.
Definitely something you will witness over and over again. One of the best.
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