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The Philadelphia story [videorecording (DVD)].

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Warner Home Video, c2010.

Weddings -- Drama.

Social classes -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 901.

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 (or 2) videodisc(s) (112 min.) : Dolby digital, mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.

Special features (2017 Criterion Two-DVD Special Edition copies): New 4K digital restoration ; audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Jeanine Basinger ; new introduction to actor Katharine Hepburn's role in the development of the film by documentarians David Heeley and Joan Kramer ; In Search of Tracy Lord, a new documentary about the origin of the character and her social milieu ; two full episodes of The Dick Cavett Show from 1973, featuring rare interviews with Hepburn, plus an excerpt of a 1978 interview from that show with director George Cukor ; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1943, featuring an introduction by filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille ; restoration demonstration ; trailer ; PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme.

In black and white.

A selection of the National Film Registry, 1995.

Please check holdings for Criterion Collection copies.

In English with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.

Criterion Collection copies are in English with English (SDH) subtitles only.

Closed-captioned.

Turner Entertainment Co. ; screenplay by Donald Odgen Stewart ; directed by George Cukor ; produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Cary Grant, James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn with Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash and Virginia Weidler.

"Here comes the bride! And the ex-husband. And a gossip-rag columnist on assignment. Here come Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart in a peerless comedy romance (directed by George Cukor) about a faultfinding, bride-to-be socialite who gets her comeuppance and an unexpected Mr. Right. After being labeled 'box-office poison,' Hepburn rekindled her stardom with a beguiling reprise of her 1939 Broadway role. Top-billed Grant demanded and got a then-colossal $137,000 salary - donating it to British War Relief. And Stewart won his only Best Actor Academy Award as the wisecracking scribe. (Writer Donald Ogden Stewart won the film's second Oscar for adapting Philip Barry's play). In 1998, Story's success story continued when it made the American Film Institute's 100 Best American Films list."--Container.

Romantic comedy films.

Screwball comedy films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Cukor, George, 1899-1983.

Grant, Cary, 1904-1986.

Stewart, James, 1908-1997.

Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003.

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