Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee One - The Screen Guild Theater "Philadelphia Story" (3-17-47)

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English - October 27, 2007 15:27 - 29 minutes - 6.72 MB - ★★★★ - 74 ratings
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The Screen Guild Theater boasted some of the greatest all-star casts ever assembled for radio. Nearly every major film star lined up to perform in Screen Guild's half-hour movie adaptations because they knew it was for a good cause: All talent fees went to the Motion Picture Country House for aging and indigent film actors.

EPISODE:
Cary Grant
Katharine Hepburn
James Stewart

The Philadelphia Story has become such a classic that even the musical remake
High Society doesn't try to copy it, it just presents a softer musical
alternative. But I'd kind of liked to have seen Hepburn do this with her
original cast as well. Oscars were in the future for Van Heflin and Shirley
Booth and Joseph Cotten the following year made his debut in the biggest film of
all.