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THE PHILADELPHIA STORY Screening Saturday Morning at The Hi-Pointe
PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) earned Jimmy Stewart his only Best Actor Oscar as Macauley Connor – a tabloid reporter for ‘Spy’ Magazine, and also won the Best Screenplay Oscar. Directed by George Cukor (Oscar nominated), PHILADELPHIA STORY is set among the privileged upper class society in Philadelphia. Hepburn’s character, a self-willed young aristocratic heiress (nicknamed ‘Red’ by her ex-husband), is on the verge of a second marriage. The Philadelphia socialite has divorced her dashing, colorful, pompous, playboyish husband (Cary Grant) and become involved with a solitary, self-made and dull business tycoon/millionaire (John Howard). The plot thickens and becomes complicated when her irresponsible ex-husband appears on the eve of the wedding, with intentions to keep her shielded from an overly-ambitious, cynical tabloid newshound (James Stewart) – a second male principal who is also vying for Hepburn’s love on the day (and night) leading up to the ceremony.
PHILADELPHIA STORY is one of those intelligent, sophisticated, classic romantic comedy-farces (part screwball) of love and marriage that everyone claims to love so there should be a big crowd at the Hi-Pointe Theater in St. Louis (1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117) when it plays on the big screen there tomorrow morning (January 25th) at 10:30am. Doors open at 10 and the movie will be preceded by a silent auction.
Admission is $10. This is a fundraiser sponsored by the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society Alliance to benefit the Medical Scholars at 5 Missouri Medical schools and the Voices of Excellence at Loyola Academy in St. Louis.
The Hi-Pointe’s site can be found HERE
The St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society Alliance site can be found HERE
Check out this vintage THE PHILADELPHIA STORY trailer:
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