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The Philadelphia Story

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

The Philadelphia Story Box Office

Domestic Total
$3M
Estimated final
Worldwide Total
$3M
$7K international
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Cast & Crew

Directed byGeorge Cukor
ScreenplayDonald Ogden Stewart
Based onthe play by Philip Barry
Produced byJoseph L. Mankiewicz
CinematographyJoseph Ruttenberg
Music byFranz Waxman
StarringCary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young
StudioMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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