I am sooo looking forward to going to the Belcourt this weekend to see The Philadelphia Story on the big screen! I’m such a nut for old movies, I swear, sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era. This is such a great movie of any generation though really….pretty timeless.
Something very interesting about this film, besides the fact it has Kate, Jimmy and Cary in it, is that Miz Hepburn bought the rights to this movie. That was not a common thing for Chick Actors to do in 1939, y’see. It’s a great story and the chemistry betwixt Kate and Cary was absolutely magical. 
Bringing Up Baby is a good Hepburn/Grant movie, too.
Me and His Wageness are going to catch it. Wanna come? Holler at me.
Danny Miller is always bragging about all the cool, old movies they show out there in Hollywood where he lives. If I lived out there, I’d never get nothing done cause I’d be going to those old movie festivals all the time.
***Soundchick and Graceless are on tap. This could get danger’sss.
April 17, 2008
sistasmiff
6 responses to “Where’s My Wandering Parakeet?”
Lu
April 17th, 2008 at 12:29
Oooo, I want to come!!! I LOVE this movie!
Email me with details and perhaps I can meet you there… or if not, I’ll form a posse of my own.
LoriW
April 17th, 2008 at 14:01
Have you ever seen “Desk Set”? One of my all-time favorite Kate movies!
sista
April 17th, 2008 at 14:36
YES! Love Woman of the Year, too. Any of hers…I love the early, early ones like Bill of Divorcement, too.
scoutabout
April 18th, 2008 at 09:30
Oh my gosh, I love The Philadelphia Story and all of those Hepburn films you mentioned and I know almost for a fact that I was born in a different era.
Hepburn bought the rights to the film because at the time, she was going through the “box office poison” phase of her career and needed this movie to revive her.
Yep, I’m a nerd.
Danny
April 18th, 2008 at 21:04
I love almost every movie that Katharine Hepburn made but “The Philadelphia Story” was THE best. She was never more brilliant than in the scene when she first meets Jimmy Stewart and Ruth Hussey when they are still pretending to be friends of her brother’s.
Tracy: You’re a kind of, um, writer, aren’t you, Mr. Connor?
Mike: Sort of.
Tracy: A book?
Mike: Yes.
Tracy: Under what name do you publish?
Mike: My own. Macauley Connor.
Tracy: What’s the ‘Macauley’ for?
Mike: Well, my father taught English History. I’m, I’m Mike to my friends.
Tracy: Of whom you have many, I’m sure. English History – it’s always fascinated me. Cromwell, Robin Hood, Jack the Ripper. Where did he teach? I mean your father -
Mike: In a little high school in South Bend, Indiana.
Tracy: South Bend! It sounds like dancing, doesn’t it? You must have had a most happy childhood there.
Mike: Yeah, it was terrific.
Tracy: I’m so glad.
Mike: No, I didn’t mean it that way.
Tracy: I’m so sorry. Why?
Mike: Uh, well, lack of where-with-all I guess.
Brilliance. And Virginia Weidler as Dinah singing “Lydia the Tattooed Lady?” Heaven. I wanna go!
sistasmiff
April 19th, 2008 at 08:13
Come on, Danny…we’ll save you’uns a seat.
I was watching that TCM documentary on Cary Grant recently and they were talking about that scene in TPS with him and Jimmy Stewart where they were drunk and said it was mostly improvised?
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