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The Philadelphia StoryFollow

1940 • Not Rated • 1h 52m • Comedy, Romance • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Broadway's howling year-run comedy hit of the snooty society beauty who slipped and fell - IN LOVE!

🍅 100% 92% MC 96 LB 3.99 IMDb 7.8

Box office summary

Domestic total
$3.00M
Estimated final
Worldwide total
$3.00M
$7K international
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Cast & crew

Full Cukor filmography
George Cukor George Cukor Director Cary Grant Cary Grant Starring Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn Starring James Stewart James Stewart Starring Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio
ScreenplayDonald Ogden Stewart Based onthe play by Philip Barry Produced byJoseph L. Mankiewicz CinematographyJoseph Ruttenberg Music byFranz Waxman StudioMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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