The Philadelphia Story

Starring:Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler, Henry Daniell, Lionel Pape, Rex Evans, Dorothy Fay, Hillary Brooke, King Baggot, Florine McKinney, Mildred Shay, Eric Mayne, David Clyde, Lita Chevret
Director: George Cukor
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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Re-creating the role she originated in Philip Barry's wickedly witty Broadway play, Katharine Hepburn stars as the spoiled and snobby socialite Tracy Lord in this sparkling 1940 screen adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, one of the great romantic comedies from the golden age of MGM studios. Applying her impossibly high ideals to everyone but herself, Tracy is about to marry a stuffy executive when her congenial ex-husband (Cary Grant), arrives to protect his former father-in-law from a potentially scandalous tabloid exposé. In an Oscar-winning role, James Stewart is the scandal reporter who falls for Tracy as her wedding day arrives, throwing her into a dizzying state of premarital jitters. Who will join Tracy at the altar? Snappy dialogue flows like sparkling wine under the sophisticated direction of George Cukor in this film that turned the tide of Hepburn's career from "box-office poison" to glamorous Hollywood star. --Jeff Shannon

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Katharine Hepburn reprises her triumphant Broadway role as a spoiled heir on the verge of marrying a snoot...but not if her ex-hubby (Cary Grant) and smitten reporter (James Stewart) can help it!

Classic Comedies Collection (Bringing Up Baby / The Philadelphia Story Two-Disc Special Edition / Dinner at Eight / Libeled Lady / Stage Door / To Be or Not to Be)

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Starring: Katharine Hepburn , Cary Grant , Charles Ruggles , Walter Catlett , and Barry Fitzgerald
Director: Howard Hawks , and George Cukor
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B0006Z2KXY
Release Date: 2005-03-01

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"The love impulse in man," says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." That's for sure. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. A straight-laced paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress Katharine Hepburn. In trying to retrieve said bone, Grant is drawn into the vortex surrounding the delicious Hepburn, which becomes a flirtatious pas de deux that will transform both of them. Director Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their "love impulse," yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. (Hawks's His Girl Friday, also with Grant, goes even faster.) Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. Not a great box-office success when first released, Bringing Up Baby has since taken its place as a high-water mark of the screwball form, and it was used as a model for Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc?

Re-creating the role she originated in Philip Barry's wickedly witty Broadway play, Katharine Hepburn stars as the spoiled and snobby socialite Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story, one of the great romantic comedies from the golden age of MGM studios. Applying her impossibly high ideals to everyone but herself, Tracy is about to marry a stuffy executive when her congenial ex-husband (Cary Grant), arrives to protect his former father-in-law from a potentially scandalous tabloid exposé. In an Oscar-winning role, James Stewart is the scandal reporter who falls for Tracy as her wedding day arrives, throwing her into a dizzying state of premarital jitters. Who will join Tracy at the altar? Snappy dialogue flows like sparkling wine under the sophisticated direction of George Cukor in this film that turned the tide of Hepburn's career from "box-office poison" to glamorous Hollywood star.

MGM originally promoted Dinner at Eight by touting the "all-star cast," but this is no run-of-the-mill omnibus picture. On the contrary, rather than cramming as many big names as possible into a lumbering vehicle, the movie's impeccably crafted script (by Edna Ferber and Herman J. Mankiewicz) and direction (by George Cukor) gave some immortal screen luminaries a chance to shine. For sheer bravery, John Barrymore's achingly poignant performance as Larry Renault, a washed-up matinee idol who has "outlived everything but his vanity," is unmatched. Barrymore's brother, Lionel, is equally touching as shipping magnate Oliver Jordan. Oliver vainly tries to save his family's century-old firm, at the same time hiding his financial and health troubles from his wife, Millicent, played to hysterical perfection by Billie Burke. The Great Depression is presented in microcosm as Millicent frets about throwing the ultimate society dinner, oblivious to the world tumbling down around her. She is forced to invite to her precious party such undesirables as crass financier Dan Packard ("He smells Oklahoma!"). Even worse in Millicent's eyes than Packard (Wallace Beery, doing an impressive steamroller imitation) is his social-climbing wife, Kitty (Jean Harlow, never funnier). Be sure to watch for Harlow's brief encounter with Marie Dressler, who brings an extraordinary winking wisdom to the role of aging star Carlotta Vance. As the two enter the dining room in the film's final scene, Harlow makes an offhand remark that elicits from Dressler one of the great screen double takes of all time. Like so much of Dinner at Eight, the moment is priceless.

Newspaper comedy doesn't seem like an MGM genre--ink-stained wretches don't go with Adrian gowns and white deco furniture--but Jack Conway, the designated bull in the Metro china shop (Boom Town, Too Hot to Handle) does what he can to bring some dash and flair to Libeled Lady's wildly complicated script. Spencer Tracy is the tough city editor who goes to some spectacular extremes when socialite Myrna Loy files a $5 million libel suit against his paper for calling her a notorious home-wrecker; he hires celebrated ladies' man William Powell to seduce Loy and asks his long-suffering fiancée, Jean Harlow, to marry Powell temporarily so she can play the wronged wife when Loy and Powell are discovered together. The couples crisscross, with frenetic and not entirely unpredictable results, but much of the pleasure here lies in seeing these iconic stars being so thoroughly themselves. The dialogue strains for champagne wit, but the movie's most memorable moment is pure, rotgut slapstick--Powell's bout with an unruly fly-fishing rod.

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The Philadelphia Story (Special Edition)

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Starring: Hillary Brooke , Veda Buckland , Lita Chevret , David Clyde , and Henry Daniell
Director: George Cukor
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Release Date: 2005-03-01

SONG OF LOVE with Katharine Hepburn (Sonata de Amor) (High Quality Import Edition-NTSC format-Region 1-Playable in North America)

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Manufacturer: Classicline
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ASIN: B000GFGJ68

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Brand new, factory sealed, fully licensed DVD manufactured in Brazil. NTSC format. Playable on any North American DVD player. High quality full screen black and white image. Original English dialog with optional subtitles in Portuguese. Portuguese subtitles can be easily turned off. The following review appears in Amazon for the VHS edition: "Song of Love is poignant and tender with excellent acting and story. Katharine Hepburn makes the character Clara Schumann believable (as with all Hepburn's roles). The story is true to life and is funny and touching at the same time. This not an action movie, however, but it is a great love story. My being a musician, the music was great, but maybe I'm a little partial to Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms. This movie sticks to the facts of Clara Schumann's life. It introduced me to two fantastic women, Katharine Hepburn and Clara Schumann. It remains one of my all-time favorites (I have seen it five times). If you're going to buy Song of Love, go for it."

ABC News Nightline The Doctor and the Reverend (Part 1 & 2 of Seville's story) (2 DVD set)

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In the most dangerous, drug infested city streets stagger the addicts who are so lost in drugs that it is hard to imagine how they might ever get out. And so many never do. ABC News met some of those people 10 years ago when they visited a North Philadelphia neighborhood, riddled by drugs and crime, known as the Badlands. It was as hopeless a neighborhood, as hopeless a group of people, as you might ever meet. One of the unforgettable men ABC News met in the Badlands was Seville, a nickname Merrill Jackson acquired as a car thief. He was also known as "The Doctor," because he ran a drug house where he sold drugs and helped addicts find veins. Seville was probably the last person you would have expected to clean up his act. But with the help of Reverend Joann Muller, a suburban mother of five, Seville is clean and sober. And he is a powerful expert witness on what life is like deep inside addiction. Part One. Merrill "Seville" Jackson was a drug dealing heroin addict running a shooting gallery in the Badlands of North Philadelphia. Reverend Joann Muller was a suburban mother of five, dedicated to making a difference in the world, somehow. Seville, who earned his nickname from a predilection for stealing Cadillacs, was also known in those days as "the doctor," because he sold drugs and helped long-time addicts like himself find a vein to inject drugs, even when those veins were collapsing. Seville and Rev. Muller explain how Seville kicked his habit after 37 years of drug addiction. Part Two.

NFL: Team Highlights - Broad Street Brotherhood: The Story of the 2002 Philadelphia Eagles

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Starring: Jim Birdsall
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Recaps the 2002 season and previews 2003 season.
Catch great action, plays and excitement from 2002
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Includes the amazing storytelling of NFL Films.

ASIN: B0000AGWDS
Release Date: 2003-08-26

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NFL Team Highlights: Philadelphia Eagles recaps the 2002 season that was, with an eye toward the upcoming 2003 season. Catch the great action, plays and excitement from 2002. Watch the story of the season unfold before your eyes, as told through the amazing storytelling ability that only NFL Films can deliver. Reference ID:TC01-DVD-0946

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The Philadelphia Story
Starring: Cary Grant , Katharine Hepburn , James Stewart , Ruth Hussey , and John Howard
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1940s Classics 7-Pack (Casablanca / The Maltese Falcon / The Philadelphia Story / Arsenic and Old Lace / The Big Sleep / Now, Voyager / Citizen Kane)

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1940s Classics 7-Pack (Casablanca / The Maltese Falcon / The Philadelphia Story / Arsenic and Old Lace / The Big Sleep / Now, Voyager / Citizen Kane)
Starring: Louis V. Arco , Ingrid Bergman , Humphrey Bogart , Curt Bois , and Marcel Dalio
Director: Michael Curtiz
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ASIN: B000068GS3
Release Date: 2002-06-04

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This 7-DVD set includes Casablanca (Special Edition), The Maltese Falcon (Special Edition), The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Big Sleep (1946), Now, Voyager, and Citizen Kane.

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