a dream cast, great movie

| Apr 7, 2025

It’s an irresistible and painfully funny film, bolstered by one of the best love triangles you’re going to get in a romantic comedy. This one practically wrote the book on how the screwball comedy functions at its peak. It’s a must-see.

| Jul 20, 2023

Hepburn is a goddess, Stewart understands Connor’s purpose in the story, and Cukor masterfully pulls everything together.

| Feb 7, 2023

This is a paste diamond with more flash and sparkle than a true one. The director, George Cukor, has never been more heartlessly sure of him- self.

| Jul 6, 2022

Without its trio of legends and a few well-placed zingers, it would be long forgotten, lost in a mist of ideas that have aged like a banana in the sun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2021

A witty, wordy masterpiece.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 19, 2021

Philip Barry should be very grateful for the direction of George Cukor and the adaptation of Donald Ogden Stewart. He is equally fortunate in the casting of the film.

| Jun 10, 2021

Pardon us a moment, please, while we dip into our supply of superlatives and bring up quite a few to bestow upon Philadelphia Story... Here, boys and gals, is the most sparkling comedy to reach the screen in lo! these many moons.

| Jun 10, 2021

Miss Hepburn has accomplished the thing she set out to do with both movie and stage play. She has made the showmen who labeled her boxofrice poison eat their words and rue the day they were ever so uncomplimentary.

| Jun 10, 2021

Miss Hepburn scores heavily, giving the best performance of her career. Grant also licks. Our favorite Ruth Hussey, who heads the featured cast, also has a field day.

| Jun 10, 2021

Barry's sprightly lines and the almost equally bright additional Stewart dialogue, of course, make the play the thing. But, frankly, it would be hard to imagine The Philadelphia Story without Katharine Hepburn.

| Jun 10, 2021

Hepburn is magnificent, Cary Grant gives one of his best performances and Jimmy Stewart plays a newspaperman as no one else on stage or screen could play him.

| Jun 10, 2021

Story unquestionably will woo the Hepburn fans back into the moviehouses. It is a blue-ribbon, A-1 film, the first smash comedy success of 1941.

| Jun 10, 2021

The Hepburn genius, long left a-smouldering in oblivion, blazes forth brightly in the screen version of the Phillip Barry stage play.

| Jun 10, 2021

If you miss it, you'll be sorry!

| Jun 10, 2021

I haven't enjoyed a film so much in years. It is light, sophisticated comedy -- and how sophisticated!

| Jun 10, 2021

Katharine Hepburn gives the finest performance of her career.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 10, 2021

[The Philadelphia Story] makes things briskly comical. Miss Hepburn knows how to be comical. So do Jimmy Stewart, Miss Hussy, Roland Young (who Is the lady-chasing uncle) and little Miss Weidler.

| Jun 10, 2021

Jimmy [Stewart] turns ln about the most honest, albeit humorous, portrayal of a working journalist that we've ever seen. He does a really swell job.

| Jun 10, 2021

It was a great play and it's even a better picture.

| Jun 10, 2021