Joining us this month to wax rhapsodic about Katharine Hepburn is film professor, author, and Hepburn devotee Kyle Stevens.
In The Philadelphia Story, Katharine Hepburn pulls off an impressive trick: creating a character we struggle to identify with—who distances herself from others purposefully—but whom we can’t help rooting for anyway.
Hepburn and Grant tumble toward happy endings through chaos and adventure, misunderstandings and trickery, all with an effortless grace.
"The time to make up your mind about people is never," that colossal line of dialogue, the film’s humanist credo, is the reason I’ve loved The Philadelphia Story for so long.
