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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
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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