Cary Grant Melts Screwball’s Ice Princess: Commentary on The Philadelphia Story (1940 film)

Film Society of Screwball Comedy (FSOSC.org) founder Aliece Pickett discusses with Lauren Wolfer the Screwball Comedy of Remarriage in The Philadelphia Story (1940 film), and the evolution of the careers of Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. It stars Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey; director George Cukor; and screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart.

Sources:
Pursuits of Happiness, The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage, by Stanley Cavell (Harvard, 1981).
Me, Stories of My Life, by Katharine Hepburn (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991).
George Cukor, A Double life, by Patrick McGilligan (St. Martin’s Press, 1991).
James Stewart, by Lawrence J. Quirk (Applause, 1997).
“I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby” (1928) Jimmy McHugh (music), Dorothy Fields (lyrics); performed by Vaughn De Leath (1928).

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