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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 kill of query for her talents in Hollywood, although she had HOLIDAY in the can (and costarring, like both BRINGING UP BABY and THE PHILADELPHIA Yarn, Cary Grant) . So, she went wait on 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 befriend 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 Anecdote is such an extraordinarily well-done film that one can peep it repeatedly, reveling each time in modern and hidden details. It strikes the perfect balance of being spectacularly well-acted, hysterically amusing, and delightfully comical while maintaining an fair veneer. The cast is nearly overwhelming in its quality, with Hepburn and Grant turning in especially blooming performances. Jimmy Stewart is also obliging, 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 secure for one of the finest performances in the history of American cinema, as Tom Joad in THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Smooth, although the Oscar clearly should have gone to Fonda, Stewart manages a stout turn. He and Grant manage a big moment when Stewart adlibbed a hiccup, and Grant, not batting an observe, 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 pleasant 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 titillating it was to leer this in the lamentably demised Lincoln Theater in Current Haven, Connecticut, having absolutely no thought how the film was going to demolish 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 accepted 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 bewitch makes her panic that she might have been in a compromising dwelling with Jimmy Stewart. After Stewart assures the confused and insecure Tracy Lord that nothing happened because she was drunk and “there are rules about that sort of thing,” the infinitely relieved Tracy says, “I contemplate men are amazing.”
The film has managed to permeate our culture in subtle ways, from inviting musical remakes, to providing celebrated 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 runt boat, he mutters under his breath, “Yar, yar”) .
They do few movies of the level of quality as “The Philadelphia Record.” This movie is unbiased fat of life, pleasurable and dreadful. Cary Grant, James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn are a trifecta of fabulous talent, and they blend together with ease and style. Like proper people, everyone has their faults and their strengths. Everyone is fair and ghastly at the same time, in their fill diagram.
The dialog is so wonderful, 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 enthralling, and is a surprising let down for such an astonishing film, however a film this ample doesn’t need extras. The main course is filling enough.
Definitely something you will perceive over and over again. One of the best.









