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Title The Philadelphia story / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Publication Info. [United States?] : Turner Entertainment, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Video  PN1997 .P44 2005    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Standard version; 2-disc special ed.
Description 2 DVD (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium monochrome
Description digital
optical
Dolby
video file
DVD video
System Details DVD; Dolby Digital.
Cast Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler.
Credits Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz ; directed by George Cukor ; screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart ; director of photography, Joseph Ruttenberg ; editor, Frank Sullivan ; music, Franz Waxman.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Based on the play by Philip Barry entitled: Philadelphia story.
"Standard version presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition."
Audience Not rated.
Summary A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Awards Academy Award for Best Actor (Stewart)
Academy Awards: Best Screenplay, Donald Ogdon Stewart; Best Actor, James Stewart.
Language In English, subtitled in English, French, and Spanish; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Subject Self-acceptance -- Drama.
Self-acceptance.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Brides -- Drama.
Brides.
Marriage -- Drama.
Marriage.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Screwball comedy films.
Screwball comedy films.
Comedy films.
Comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Videocassettes.
Subject Marriage.
Genre/Form Drama.
Added Author Cukor, George, 1899-1983.
Waxman, Franz, 1906-1967, composer.
Grant, Cary, 1904-1986.
Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003.
Stewart, James, 1908-1997.
Hussey, Ruth, 1911-2005.
Howard, John, 1913-1995.
Young, Roland, 1887-1953.
Halliday, John, 1880-1947.
Nash, Mary, 1884-1976.
Weidler, Virginia, 1926-1968.
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Barry, Philip, 1896-1949. Philadelphia story.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Turner Entertainment Co.
ISBN 0790795760
Music No. 66990 Turner Entertainment