The Philadelphia Story
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart
Director: George Cukor
Writer: Donald Ogden Stewart, Waldo Salt, Philip Barry
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, and Ruth Hussey. Directed by George Cukor, the film is based on the 1939 Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Academy Award for Best Actress; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Based on The Philadelphia Story (1939 play by Philip Barry).
- Broadway playwright Philip Barry wrote the play specifically for Hepburn, who financially supported the play and declined a salary in return for a percentage of the profits.
- The original play, starring Hepburn, ran for 417 performances.
- Hepburn had hoped to create a film vehicle for herself that would erase the label of "box-office poison" that she had acquired after a number of commercial failures (such as Bringing Up Baby).
Filming Locations
- Philadelphia
Previous Showings
34 Runs • 21 Festivals
53,192 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (February 9, 1941)
Original Run: February 9, 1941 (Sunday - Thursday)
All runs on record (34):
- February 9, 1941 (Sunday - Thursday)Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
- June 6 - 7, 1990 · 887 ticketsw/ It's a Wonderful World
- December 17 - 19, 1990 · 953 ticketsw/ Pride and Prejudice
- May 25 - 27, 1991 · 2,105 ticketsw/ Woman of the Year
- September 5 - 8, 1992 · 3,084 ticketsw/ Sylvia Scarlett
- August 26 - 27, 1993 · 1,060 ticketsw/ Bringing Up Baby
- December 18 - 23, 1993 · 2,284 ticketsw/ The Shop Around the Corner
- September 2 - 6, 1995 · 2,139 ticketsw/ His Girl Friday
- June 15 - 18, 1996 · 2,569 ticketsw/ Bringing Up Baby
- July 26 - 29, 1997 · 2,153 ticketsw/ Bringing Up Baby
- October 30 - November 3, 1998 · 916 ticketsRomantic Comedy Seriesw/ Top Hat
- March 19 - 23, 1999 · 2,267 ticketsDirected by George Cukorw/ Holiday
- September 2 - 3, 1999 · 1,534 ticketssummer99w/ The Shop Around the Corner
- December 28, 1999 · 381 ticketsw/ The Wizard of Oz, The Shop Around the Corner, Sabrina
- August 25 - 28, 2001 · 2,399 ticketssummer2k1w/ Holiday
- April 12 - 18, 2002 · 2,076 ticketscg2-2002w/ The Howards of Virginia
- July 3 - 6, 2003Summer 2003w/ Lawrence of Arabia
- August 6 - 11, 2005 · 3,214 ticketsSummer 2005w/ Laura
- May 11 - 13, 2007 · 2,222 ticketsKatharine Hepburnw/ A Bill of Divorcement
- January 18 - 20, 2008 · 1,303 ticketsHITCHCOCK: Ten Weeks of the films of the Master of Suspensew/ Notorious
- July 10 - 13, 2009 · 1,906 ticketsSummer 2009w/ Dinner at Eight
- December 18 - 19, 2009 · 1,385 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ Casablanca
- December 11 - 13, 2010 · 1,081 ticketsFall 2010 Featuring film noir every Thursday and Fridayw/ Random Harvest
- January 14 - 19, 2012 · 1,152 ticketsw/ Midnight
- August 18 - 21, 2012 · 1,705 ticketsSummer 2012w/ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- September 20 - 21, 2014 · 1,044 ticketsSummer 2014w/ Dinner at Eight
- May 1 - 3, 2015 · 1,318 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ Thirty Day Princess
- February 4 - 14, 2016 · 2,346 ticketsw/ Notorious, Laura
- August 27 - 30, 2016 · 1,290 ticketsSummer 2016w/ The Palm Beach Story
- August 3 - 5, 2018 · 1,448 ticketsSummer 2018w/ Laura
- May 31 - June 2, 2019 · 1,270 ticketsJames Stewart Festivalw/ After the Thin Man
- August 13 - 14, 2022 · 883 ticketsSummer 2022w/ Dinner at Eight
- July 29 - 30, 2023 · 1,359 ticketsSummer 2023: The Best of Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcockw/ The Talk of the Town
- August 9 - 10, 2025 · 1,459 ticketsSummer 2025w/ Dinner at Eight