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Indiscrétions

Original title: The Philadelphia Story
  • 1940
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 52m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
77K
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POPULARITY
1,733
2,514
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart in Indiscrétions (1940)
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FarceScrewball ComedyComedyRomance

After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

  • Director
    • George Cukor
  • Writers
    • Donald Ogden Stewart
    • Philip Barry
    • Waldo Salt
  • Stars
    • Cary Grant
    • Katharine Hepburn
    • James Stewart
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    77K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,733
    2,514
    • Director
      • George Cukor
    • Writers
      • Donald Ogden Stewart
      • Philip Barry
      • Waldo Salt
    • Stars
      • Cary Grant
      • Katharine Hepburn
      • James Stewart
    • 293User reviews
    • 86Critic reviews
    • 96Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 2 Oscars
      • 9 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Cary Grant
    Cary Grant
    • C.K. Dexter Haven
    Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn
    • Tracy Lord
    James Stewart
    James Stewart
    • Macaulay Connor
    Ruth Hussey
    Ruth Hussey
    • Elizabeth Imbrie
    John Howard
    John Howard
    • George Kittredge
    Roland Young
    Roland Young
    • Uncle Willie
    John Halliday
    John Halliday
    • Seth Lord
    Mary Nash
    Mary Nash
    • Margaret Lord
    Virginia Weidler
    Virginia Weidler
    • Dinah Lord
    Henry Daniell
    Henry Daniell
    • Sidney Kidd
    Lionel Pape
    Lionel Pape
    • Edward
    Rex Evans
    Rex Evans
    • Thomas
    King Baggot
    King Baggot
    • Wedding Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Hillary Brooke
    Hillary Brooke
    • Main Line Society Woman
    • (uncredited)
    Veda Buckland
    • Elsie
    • (uncredited)
    Lita Chevret
    Lita Chevret
    • Manicurist
    • (uncredited)
    Russ Clark
    • John
    • (uncredited)
    Sally Cleaves
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • George Cukor
    • Writers
      • Donald Ogden Stewart
      • Philip Barry
      • Waldo Salt
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    User reviews293

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    bob the moo

    Great dialogue, great performances and a real fun, urgent pace to the material make this a delightfully fun film

    It is the wedding of the year with socialite Tracy Lord due to marry George Kittredge behind closed doors, with no press allowed. However the editor of Spy Magazine is set to run an exposé of Tracy's philandering father and a New York dancer and strikes a deal with her ex husband CK Dexter Haven if he can get a couple of journalists into the wedding and the reception. Keen to get back at Tracy, Dexter agrees to help and escorts writer Mike Conner and photographer Liz Imbrie into the Lord home in the days before the wedding. With tensions high between Dexter and Tracy, everyone playing games and relationships equally confused and confusing anything could happen and surprises are in store.

    Shot in about 8 weeks with a low number of takes and some impressive adlibbed and one-shot scenes this is a movie worth seeing even before you look at the cast list and the professional reviews. The plot is partly a comedy, partly a character drama and partly a romance (albeit a rather tidy one) and each aspect pretty much works in tandem with the others. The comic tension between the characters is really well written and, although it is a cliché, it does fizz and spark across the screen and is regularly hilarious and consistently a delight to the ears. With such superficial energy it would be easy to ignore the fact that it is interesting below this; specifically I liked the character of Tracy and the way that parts of the film show her character being stripped back as she in particular learns something about how she comes across, softening her character a little bit in later scenes. However to suggest that this has great depths is to give it more praise than it deserves, because it doesn't run deep and it isn't a great drama. Likewise the romance isn't a main part of it but it does still work because it is all delivered at such a fresh and funny pace that it draws you in, even to the point where I gratefully accepted the film's conclusion with a smile rather than a sneer.

    The cast are a delight, but then that pretty much goes without saying, and they work with the dialogue like a surgeon uses a scalpel. In fact that is a good example because the dialogue is normally almost as sharp as said instrument. Grant may have got top billing and the big money (which he then donated away) but it is very much a shared effort between the three stars, with Grant in fact having the least showy character. If anything the film belongs to Hepburn who is a delight whether spitting back at her father with tears in her eyes or a barbed comment sliding in like a greased knife. Stewart is just as good and is reaction shots show a real comic timing, but he also gives good dialogue and he is fun. Like Stewart, Grant has a great chemistry with Hepburn, which means that he can deliver convincing tension and trade insults without undermining the ending which otherwise would have maybe been an ask too far. Hussey is good and it is easy to forget that she must have felt a bit out of her depth but it never shows in her performance. Support is roundly strong from Young, Nash, Halliday and even Weildler.

    Overall this is a delightful film that is such fun and has such a good pace and spark that it is easy to buy into the weaker elements of the narrative and not only forgive them but get into them. The dialogue is sparky and funny while the delivery of same is just what the material deserved. The cast have chemistry and help inject urgency to the story that keeps it all moving forward. A wonderfully delightful film that is fun to watch and surprisingly engaging.
    8clevurguy

    Cannot get more classic than The Philadelphia Story

    Grant, Hepburn, Stewart. One of my favorite classics! -- I give it 8/10 Hollywood stars!
    Jo-77

    The most sophisticated comedy ever!

    Firstly, let me say, that I love Kate Hepburn. She's my favourite actress, and in my opinion, she can do no wrong. For this reason, I'd probably give a good rating to every movie she made.

    But 'The Philadelphia Story' really does deserve wonderful praise. It's by far the most sophisticated, and in my opinion, the greatest comedy ever made, one of Kate's greatest roles. She's absolutely hilarious as Tracy Lord, bringing perfection to the role she created on the stage a year before the film, mocking, insulting and making fun out of Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant.

    Her drunken scene with Stewart is pure magic and her mockery of him ('dear professor') is wonderful.

    Grant and Stewart are fabulous, Stewart as the rough and tumble reporter infatuated with Tracy and Grant as the neglected ex- husband.

    Ruth Hussey and Virginia Weidler are fantastic in supporting roles, and really add to the hilarity of the whole picture.

    A funny, bouyant ride through the 1940's- I completely recommend it!
    9dfloro

    A truly great (greatest?) romantic comedy

    Obviously, the three lead actors are all just as great as we remember them, especially Jimmy Stewart in his Oscar-winning role. But don't miss the turns by Ruth Hussey, as the long-suffering but still devoted assistant to Stewart's journalist character, and Roland Young (who'd already starred with Cary Grant in the rightfully popular first and best "Topper" movie) here as Uncle Willie. So who ultimately winds up with Katherine Hepburn's character? Her ex, played by the suave Cary Grant, who may be a cad, or the earnest and down-to-earth young writer played by the honest Stewart, or the safe but utterly uninteresting fiancé played by John Howard. (Who? Exactly!) You'll have to watch all the way to the end to find out. Heck, just try not to! 😁
    dougdoepke

    Overrated, Despite the Big Names

    If this is sophisticated comedy, I'll take the gaucheries of Airplane (1980) any day. Despite the celebrated cast, director, and screenwriter, the movie's not very amusing, unless you think drunks are automatically amusing. In fact, at times the antics are downright annoying, especially the shrill Hepburn character and Stewart's going way over the top as an inebriate reporter.

    At best, actress Hepburn is a matter of taste. Here director Cukor gives full reign to her most troublesome habit—sheer staginess. For Tracy (Hepburn), there's no such thing as a simple movement; instead, every inflection is an exaggeration of some sort. Just as bad for the movie, Grant is not allowed his usual superb comedic skills; instead, he gets to look on in a rather wooden manner, a not unreasonable reaction. Unfortunately, this is another example of MGM's Louis Mayer's infatuation with the idle rich and well-housed.

    One of the film's few positive notes are the many subtle innuendoes. In fact, the strategic use of such innuendoes as 'intact' made me wonder if the Grant-Hepburn marriage had ever been consummated. Then again, why any man would warm up to such a bitchy "goddess" remains perhaps the movie's biggest conundrum. On the other hand, the supporting cast, particularly Hussey and Weidler, furnish what there is of the movie's meager amusement. Too bad it's only in support.

    To me, the movie's exalted reputation is likely the result of Hollywood's promotional arm working overtime. After all, if the production's got this many illustrious names, it's got to be a classic. For a revealing contrast, catch the Grant-Hepburn-Hawks genuinely funny Bringing Up Baby, made only two years earlier. At least, Hawks knew how to edit a scene without letting it drone on and on. Here, Stewart's adaptation of the Barry play may have looked good on paper, but on screen it's quite a different matter, despite all the hoopla.

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    • Trivia
      The film was shot in eight weeks, and required very few retakes. During the scene where James Stewart hiccups when drunk, you can see Cary Grant looking down and grinning. Since the hiccup wasn't scripted, Grant was on the verge of breaking out laughing and had to compose himself quickly. Stewart (apparently spontaneously) thought of hiccuping in the drunk scene, without telling Grant. When he began hiccuping, Grant turned to Stewart, saying, "Excuse me." The scene required only one take.
    • Goofs
      After Dexter reveals Kidd's blackmailing scheme to Tracy, he accidentally calls her Dinah. Correction: Dexter is not calling her Dinah. When he says "Quiet, Dinah" his implied meaning is "Quiet, Dinah will hear you."
    • Quotes

      Tracy Lord: The time to make up your mind about people is never.

    • Alternate versions
      Also available in a computer colorized version.
    • Connections
      Edited into Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
    • Soundtracks
      Lydia, the Tattooed Lady
      (1939) (uncredited)

      Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg

      Music by Harold Arlen

      Performed by Virginia Weidler (vocal and piano)

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    • Release date
      • April 2, 1947 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Pecadora equivocada
    • Filming locations
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Loew's
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    • Budget
      • $944,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $404,524
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $258,994
      • Feb 18, 2018
    • Gross worldwide
      • $414,976
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 52 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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