i don't know how or why, but i feel like all the characters' problems would be solved if cary grant, katharine hepburn, and james stewart had a threesome..... just a thought

if they had cast ANYONE else as katharine hepburn’s shitty blackmailing ex-husband this could’ve been yet another entry into the DUMP HIM Cinema Canon but since it’s cary grant i’m like *dude on the stoner couch who’s secretly intimidated by your opinion while simultaneously completely undervaluing it voice* that’s fair, that’s fair. 

also i can’t get the image of cary grant perched on the edge of the fountain, greeting everyone with a scathingly simple “Hello, friends and enemies” out of my head. same energy i feel when i log into this app

This is like the 1992 U.S. Olympic basketball team of movies

you're so yar. you're so yar you don't even know it.

jimmy stewart singing somewhere over the rainbow is something i didn't know i needed

some days i just want to lie down and cry and some days i just want to be carried in the arms by jimmy stewart while he vivaciously sings somewhere over the rainbow to me. and you know what? ive had ENOUGH of the first one so someone better start memorizing the lyrics and training for their upper body strength

Jimmy Stewart getting spooked when rich people make jerky and erratic actions around him and then getting champagne drunk and blackmailing people is the mood on this fine evening

I don’t get it. I don’t. I really should’ve loved this, it seemed right up my alley. The release date, the goddamn director, the actors in it. It’s like it was made for me. But there’s too much dialogue here. I don’t hate this movie at all, I just think it’s ok. The actors are remarkable and Katharine Hepburn delivers one of her best performances, but I didn’t laugh at any joke since they all flew over my head. The script is full of so many unnecessary conversations that it could become exhausting to follow. The story seemed really good, but it took a few uninteresting turns. I didn’t care for the romance or the comedy in this so-called romcom. This really seemed like my thing, but I ended up thinking it was just fine. I really can’t understate the acting and there were some amazing moments but I didn’t like the screenplay.

HOW did george cukor manage to capture cary grant and jimmy stewart TOGETHER in the SAME SCENE without the film automatically BURSTING INTO FLAMES

other things that happen that shouldn’t be allowed: 

cary grant listening to jimmy stewart drunkenly complain while sipping champagne out of a paper cup

jimmy stewart singing “over the rainbow” while carrying a drunk katharine hepburn across a lawn

Quite possibly the best romantic comedy ever made. Hepburn is fucking amazing.

Thoroughly enjoyable romantic comedy.

Immersive film. Her character is so powerful.
I had issues with the morals of the story; it could be that at a time it was thought that that would secure good reception, which was in fact achieved with everything else.

At times it felt a little meandering, but overall The Philadelphia story is a funny and charming romantic comedy. Virginia Weidler and Jimmy Stewart stole the show for me.

I think I hate just about everyone in this film for different reasons. Oh well, I think I just hate romcoms. 

On the other hand, James Stewart is hilarious when drunk.

I like the complexity of the emotion in this movie but from a modern perspective it's really weird that the dad is being treated as a suffering noble for...cheating on his wife with a chorus girl. And domestic abuse being treated as a joke. And Katherine Hepburn's big flaw being an ice-cold queen...

Oh well, it's still a fun and surprisingly deep Screwball Comedy. I wonder how long it'll take those guys who are resurrecting James Dean to recreate Cary Grant and put him in a Netflix romcom.

A great screwball comedy/love triangle type of deal. With three performers of this caliber, you're going to get a good result. I didn't find it hilarious, and maybe I was supposed to, but it was likable enough that I didn't really care.

Noch ein Nachzügler vom Followbruary. Charmant, insbesondere Jimmy Stewart.

ok hepburn u queen i see u

uh so basically i definitely need to rewatch this at some point cuz ik i fell asleep but the parts i did see were pretty good. honestly the ending is somewhat predictable considering its 1940 and ive seen the divorcee 1930😭😭 it did take me a second to recover from cary grant literally slapping the shit out of katharine hepburn in the first minute💀 but katharine killed it and i love jimmy stewart so plus 10 points for him. overall pretty good

someone else said this but i wholeheartedly agree jimmy stewart singing somewhere over the rainbow was the highlight of the movie

“My, she was yar.”

Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Cary Grant. The throuple I would’ve loved to be a part of.

Katharine Hepburn

Cukor's big plea about how the rich can breed their own misery too. Three supernovas ferociously dunking on each other because they just want to kiss. Hepburn: maniacally snooty, which is just what the role calls for, weaponizing her more abrasive tics (which were always assets) into something very self-effacing and winning. I knew this as the performance that got the public on her side, but I wasn't expecting something so shrewdly crafted for that purpose. Stewart: realized I haven't seen a ton of this guy when he was young. He's really fucking funny in this. Grant: not at all what I expected from him. Here he's calm and collected when his screwball is usually a driving energy. He watches and grins and waits for his cues, centering the romantic musical chairs with an uncommon grace. Was perfectly happy to go down a lot of avenues with the three of them, but not the ending.