The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Highly Recommended
USA
Feature Film
Director: George Cukor
Writers: Donald Ogden Stewart, Philip Barry
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
Composer: Franz Waxman
Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler

A reformed playboy, aided by a pair of blue collar Spy Magazine journalists, crashes the preparations for his ex-wife’s forthcoming wedding to a nouveau riche neighbour; and before long, blackmail, subterfuge, drunken flirtation, and mischievous siblings are all playing their part, in Cukor’s delicious farce, a beautifully acted, oft hilarious, and generally irresistible romantic comedy. Iain.Stott