Romantic Comedies - TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection, DVD

Features

Closed Caption; Disc 1, Side A: The Philadelphia Story includes Commentary by film historian Jeanine Basinger; George Cukor movie trailler gallery; Disc 1, Side B: Bringing Up Baby includes Commentary by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; Howard Hawks movie trailer gallery; Disc 2, Side A: Adam's Rib includes Theatrical trailer; Disc 2, Side B: Woman of the Year includes Theatrical trailer

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Disc #1, Side A -- The Philadelphia Story
1. Credits [1:35]
2. Uncoupling [:42]
3. Bride's High Standards [3:56]
4. George Saddles Up [3:21]
5. The Philadelphia Story [4:07]
6. Spies Invade the Manor [4:12]
7. Dexter's Small Blackmail [5:38]
8. Lydia the Tattooed Lady [3:13]
9. Tracy Meets the Press [3:29]
10. The Family For Lunch [5:39]
11. Library Research [3:25]
12. Patron Lady [2:55]
13. Virgin Goddess [5:19]
14. "My, She Was Yar" [4:14]
15. Right Kind Of Daughter [3:48]
16. Exposed and Pinched [2:05]
17. Drinks For Everyone [4:47]
18. Talkative Visitor [5:28]
19. Class System [:33]
20. Hearthfires and Holocausts [5:57]
21. Advice To Liz [3:03]
22. The Mighty Fallen [1:58]
23. Eye Openers [4:41]
24. Dinah's Dream [4:13]
25. Missing Memory and Watch [2:45]
26. Not Very Yar [3:35]
27. George's Letter [5:20]
28. There Goes the Groom [3:48]
29. Tracy's Announcement [2:44]
30. Cast List [4:45]
Disc #1, Side B -- Bringing Up Baby
1. Credits [1:13]
2. No Bones About Marriage [2:50]
3. She Has His Things [4:48]
4. Olives and the Love Impulse [5:52]
5. Rear Views [2:17]
6. Man Of Some Dignity [4:01]
7. Want a Leopard? [3:20]
8. Meeting Baby [3:58]
9. Poultry Dinner [2:26]
10. Lawbreakers [2:52]
11. Shortage Of Clothes [2:09]
12. Gay All Of a Sudden [1:54]
13. Bone Dry [3:08]
14. Hunting With George [4:19]
15. The Major and Mr. Bone [3:33]
16. Dinner On the Move [3:36]
17. Leopard Calling [2:40]
18. Pear-Shaped Mating Cry [4:34]
19. Wet In the Woods [5:00]
20. Leopard #2 [3:48]
21. Here, Kitty [4:16]
22. Please, David [2:23]
23. Moonlight Quartet [2:40]
24. Jailbirds [2:45]
25. Who's In Charge Here? [3:56]
26. The Leopard Gang [2:43]
27. "Name Anything And I've Done It" [4:38]
28. Her Hero [2:02]
29. A Mess Of Everything [3:37]
30. Cast List [4:03]
Disc #2, Side A -- Adam's Rib
1. Opening Logos [:22]
2. Main Title [1:05]
3. Doris In Pursuit [2:29]
4. Doris Uses the Gun [1:58]
5. The Bonners Arise [3:27]
6. To Drive To Work [1:17]
7. A Case Of the Attingers [6:05]
8. Doris Recounts the Crime [5:04]
9. The Dinner Party [5:43]
10. Bonner Home Movies [3:55]
11. A Bonner Spat [1:18]
12. The Jury Selection [4:37]
13. "Pinky Cranky?" [5:18]
14. Farewell Amanda [4:05]
15. Beryl Caighn Testifies [3:51]
16. Warren Attinger On the Stand [2:57]
17. Doris Attinger On the Stand [4:23]
18. The Massage [1:03]
19. The Slap [3:02]
20. Battle Of the Sexes [5:28]
21. "The Law Is the Law!" [4:08]
22. "I Like Two Sexes!" [1:17]
23. The Sex Change Summation [3:39]
24. Adam's Closing Argument [3:44]
25. The Verdict [4:21]
26. Kip and Amanda On Marriage [3:42]
27. Adam Points the Gun [4:29]
28. The Accountant's Office [3:51]
29. "Vive La Difference!" [3:39]
30. End Credits [:39]
Disc #2, Side B -- Woman Of the Year
1. Opening Logos [:21]
2. Main Title [:49]
3. 90 Feet- And Worlds - Apart [3:04]
4. Sam Throws the 1st Strike [3:44]
5. Out To the Ballgame [5:52]
6. A Cozy Date...For Thirty [:54]
7. World Party / Yes, Yes, Yes [3:21]
8. Speaking In Tongues [4:10]
9. Curtains For Sam [2:57]
10. The Secretary Of the Interruptus [2:01]
11. Driving Miss Whitcomb [1:19]
12. "Look, Sam" / "I'm Looking" [5:25]
13. Three Little Words [5:19]
14. The Proposal [3:35]
15. I Do, I Do, Let's Go [2:29]
16. Over the Threshold [3:46]
17. Et Lubbeck? Et Lubbeck, Oh! [4:11]
18. Pinkie & Company ... & Company [4:19]
19. A New Ballgame ... And Hat [3:36]
20. Out Of the Pan Into His Ire [3:54]
21. Sam's Spectacular Courage [3:33]
22. Tess' Spectacular News [5:46]
23. Woman Of the Year [6:50]
24. After the Banquet [3:30]
25. Ellen Whitcomb's Invitation [4:18]
26. Woman Of the Century [7:14]
27. The Fabulous Mrs. Craig [4:04]
28. Tess' Alarming Culinary Skills [5:56]
29. "I've Come Home, Sam" [2:52]
30. The Waffle Also Rises [2:24]
31. Consoling Tess [1:57]
32. The Clinch / End Credits [:38]

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Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib is a peerless comedy predicated on the double standard. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play Adam and Amanda Bonner, a husband-and-wife attorney team, both drawn to a case of attempted murder. The defendant (Judy Holliday) had tearfully attempted to shoot her husband (Tom Ewell) and his mistress (Jean Hagen). Adam argues that the case is open and shut, but Amanda points out that, if the defendant were a man, he'd be set free on the basis of "the unwritten law." Thus it is that Adam works on behalf of the prosecution, while Amanda defends the accused woman. The trial turns into a media circus, while the Bonners' home life suffers. Adam's Rib represented the film debuts of New York-based actors Jean Hagen, Tom Ewell, and David Wayne (as Hepburn's erstwhile songwriting suitor), and the return to Hollywood of Judy Holliday after her Born Yesterday triumph. One of the best of the Tracy-Hepburn efforts, it inspired a brief 1973 TV series starring Ken Howard and Blythe Danner. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Philadelphia Story is a Must Seeby Teddy924

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May 18, 2009: I enjoyed the Philadelphia Story very much. The cast, the plot, the twist and turns. The entire cast performance was great. This is one of those movies you can watch over and over again. I absolutely loved it - my favorite!

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Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib is a peerless comedy predicated on the double standard. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play Adam and Amanda Bonner, a husband-and-wife attorney team, both drawn to a case of attempted murder. The defendant (Judy Holliday) had tearfully attempted to shoot her husband (Tom Ewell) and his mistress (Jean Hagen). Adam argues that the case is open and shut, but Amanda points out that, if the defendant were a man, he'd be set free on the basis of "the unwritten law." Thus it is that Adam works on behalf of the prosecution, while Amanda defends the accused woman. The trial turns into a media circus, while the Bonners' home life suffers. Adam's Rib represented the film debuts of New York-based actors Jean Hagen, Tom Ewell, and David Wayne (as Hepburn's erstwhile songwriting suitor), and the return to Hollywood of Judy Holliday after her Born Yesterday triumph. One of the best of the Tracy-Hepburn efforts, it inspired a brief 1973 TV series starring Ken Howard and Blythe Danner. Hal Erickson

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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star Bringing Up Baby, an inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and unwittingly makes a fiasco of both their lives. David Huxley (Grant) is the stuffy paleontologist who needs to finish an exhibit on dinosaurs and thus land a $1 million grant for his museum. At a golf outing with his potential benefactors, Huxley is spotted by Susan Vance (Hepburn) who decides that she must have the reserved scientist at all costs. She uses her pet leopard, Baby, to trick him into driving to her Connecticut home, where a dog wanders into Huxley's room and steals the vital last bone that he needs to complete his project. The real trouble begins when another leopard escapes from the local zoo and Baby is mistaken for it, leading Huxley and Susan into a series of harebrained and increasingly more insane schemes to save the cat from the authorities. Inevitably, the two end up in the local jail, where things get even more out of hand: Susan pretends to be the gun moll to David's diabolical, supposedly wanted criminal. Naturally, the mismatched pair falls in love through all the lunacy. Director Howard Hawks delivers a funny, fast-paced, and offbeat story, enlivened by animated performances from the two leads, in what has become a definitive screwball comedy. Don Kaye

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We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn). Adding insult to injury, Tracy breaks one of C.K.'s precious golf clubs. He gallantly responds by knocking her down on her million-dollar keester. A couple of years after the breakup, Tracy is about to marry George Kittridge (John Howard), a wealthy stuffed shirt whose principal recommendation is that he's not a Philadelphia "mainliner," as C.K. was. Still holding a torch for Tracy, C.K. is galvanized into action when he learns that Sidney Kidd (Henry Daniell), the publisher of Spy Magazine, plans to publish an expos� concerning Tracy's philandering father (John Halliday). To keep Kidd from spilling the beans, C.K. agrees to smuggle Spy reporter Macauley Connor (James Stewart) and photographer Elizabeth Imbrie (Ruth Hussey) into the exclusive Lord-Kittridge wedding ceremony. How could C.K. have foreseen that Connor would fall in love with Tracy, thereby nearly lousing up the nuptials? As it turns out, of course, it is C.K. himself who pulls the "louse-up," reclaiming Tracy as his bride. A consistently bright, bubbly, witty delight, The Philadelphia Story could just as well have been titled "The Revenge of Katharine Hepburn." Having been written off as "box-office poison" in 1938, Hepburn returned to Broadway in a vehicle tailor-made for her talents by playwright Philip Barry. That property, of course, was The Philadelphia Story; and when MGM bought the rights to this sure-fire box-office success, it had to take Hepburn along with the package -- and also her veto as to who her producer, director, and co-stars would be. Her strategy paid off: after the film's release, Hepburn was back on top of the Hollywood heap. While she didn't win the Oscar that many thought she richly deserved, the little gold statuette was bestowed upon her co-star Stewart, perhaps as compensation for his non-win for 1939's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Donald Ogden Stewart (no relation to Jimmy) also copped an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Philadelphia Story was remade in 1956 with a Cole Porter musical score as High Society. Hal Erickson

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Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn costarred for the first time in the delectable romantic comedy Woman of the Year. Tracy plays New York sportswriter Sam Craig, who becomes incensed at comments about the uselessness of sports made by foreign correspondent Tess Harding (Hepburn). Sam and Tess subsequently use their respective columns to carry on a feud-at least, until they finally meet face to face. After Sam takes Tess to her first baseball game (one of the funniest scenes ever committed to celluloid), the two fall in love. Once married, however, their happiness is threatened by their wildly divergent lifestyles (Sam hadn't intended to spend his honeymoon helping to hide a prominent European refugee from the authorities, nor is Tess prepared for her husband's rowdy sports-oriented pals). When Tess is voted "Woman of the Year", a jealous Sam walks out on her. She endeavors to win him back by cooking him breakfast-with disastrous results. Despite their oil-and-water relationship, Sam and Tess are made for each other, and they're back together for the final fadeout. A hands-down winner at the box office, Woman of the Year earned a "best original screenplay" Oscar for Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin. Nominated for an award was director George Stevens, an RKO contractee brought to MGM at Hepburn's insistence. And need we remind you at this late date of the subsequent lifelong romance between stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn? Hal Erickson

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UPC: 883929048724
Source: TURNER HOME ENT
Region Code: 1
Language: English
Time: 7:06:00
Sales Rank: 1,239

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Features:

Closed Caption; Disc 1, Side A: The Philadelphia Story includes Commentary by film historian Jeanine Basinger; George Cukor movie trailler gallery; Disc 1, Side B: Bringing Up Baby includes Commentary by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; Howard Hawks movie trailer gallery; Disc 2, Side A: Adam's Rib includes Theatrical trailer; Disc 2, Side B: Woman of the Year includes Theatrical trailer

Scene Index

Disc #1, Side A -- The Philadelphia Story
1. Credits [1:35]
2. Uncoupling [:42]
3. Bride's High Standards [3:56]
4. George Saddles Up [3:21]
5. The Philadelphia Story [4:07]
6. Spies Invade the Manor [4:12]
7. Dexter's Small Blackmail [5:38]
8. Lydia the Tattooed Lady [3:13]
9. Tracy Meets the Press [3:29]
10. The Family For Lunch [5:39]
11. Library Research [3:25]
12. Patron Lady [2:55]
13. Virgin Goddess [5:19]
14. "My, She Was Yar" [4:14]
15. Right Kind Of Daughter [3:48]
16. Exposed and Pinched [2:05]
17. Drinks For Everyone [4:47]
18. Talkative Visitor [5:28]
19. Class System [:33]
20. Hearthfires and Holocausts [5:57]
21. Advice To Liz [3:03]
22. The Mighty Fallen [1:58]
23. Eye Openers [4:41]
24. Dinah's Dream [4:13]
25. Missing Memory and Watch [2:45]
26. Not Very Yar [3:35]
27. George's Letter [5:20]
28. There Goes the Groom [3:48]
29. Tracy's Announcement [2:44]
30. Cast List [4:45]
Disc #1, Side B -- Bringing Up Baby
1. Credits [1:13]
2. No Bones About Marriage [2:50]
3. She Has His Things [4:48]
4. Olives and the Love Impulse [5:52]
5. Rear Views [2:17]
6. Man Of Some Dignity [4:01]
7. Want a Leopard? [3:20]
8. Meeting Baby [3:58]
9. Poultry Dinner [2:26]
10. Lawbreakers [2:52]
11. Shortage Of Clothes [2:09]
12. Gay All Of a Sudden [1:54]
13. Bone Dry [3:08]
14. Hunting With George [4:19]
15. The Major and Mr. Bone [3:33]
16. Dinner On the Move [3:36]
17. Leopard Calling [2:40]
18. Pear-Shaped Mating Cry [4:34]
19. Wet In the Woods [5:00]
20. Leopard #2 [3:48]
21. Here, Kitty [4:16]
22. Please, David [2:23]
23. Moonlight Quartet [2:40]
24. Jailbirds [2:45]
25. Who's In Charge Here? [3:56]
26. The Leopard Gang [2:43]
27. "Name Anything And I've Done It" [4:38]
28. Her Hero [2:02]
29. A Mess Of Everything [3:37]
30. Cast List [4:03]
Disc #2, Side A -- Adam's Rib
1. Opening Logos [:22]
2. Main Title [1:05]
3. Doris In Pursuit [2:29]
4. Doris Uses the Gun [1:58]
5. The Bonners Arise [3:27]
6. To Drive To Work [1:17]
7. A Case Of the Attingers [6:05]
8. Doris Recounts the Crime [5:04]
9. The Dinner Party [5:43]
10. Bonner Home Movies [3:55]
11. A Bonner Spat [1:18]
12. The Jury Selection [4:37]
13. "Pinky Cranky?" [5:18]
14. Farewell Amanda [4:05]
15. Beryl Caighn Testifies [3:51]
16. Warren Attinger On the Stand [2:57]
17. Doris Attinger On the Stand [4:23]
18. The Massage [1:03]
19. The Slap [3:02]
20. Battle Of the Sexes [5:28]
21. "The Law Is the Law!" [4:08]
22. "I Like Two Sexes!" [1:17]
23. The Sex Change Summation [3:39]
24. Adam's Closing Argument [3:44]
25. The Verdict [4:21]
26. Kip and Amanda On Marriage [3:42]
27. Adam Points the Gun [4:29]
28. The Accountant's Office [3:51]
29. "Vive La Difference!" [3:39]
30. End Credits [:39]
Disc #2, Side B -- Woman Of the Year
1. Opening Logos [:21]
2. Main Title [:49]
3. 90 Feet- And Worlds - Apart [3:04]
4. Sam Throws the 1st Strike [3:44]
5. Out To the Ballgame [5:52]
6. A Cozy Date...For Thirty [:54]
7. World Party / Yes, Yes, Yes [3:21]
8. Speaking In Tongues [4:10]
9. Curtains For Sam [2:57]
10. The Secretary Of the Interruptus [2:01]
11. Driving Miss Whitcomb [1:19]
12. "Look, Sam" / "I'm Looking" [5:25]
13. Three Little Words [5:19]
14. The Proposal [3:35]
15. I Do, I Do, Let's Go [2:29]
16. Over the Threshold [3:46]
17. Et Lubbeck? Et Lubbeck, Oh! [4:11]
18. Pinkie & Company ... & Company [4:19]
19. A New Ballgame ... And Hat [3:36]
20. Out Of the Pan Into His Ire [3:54]
21. Sam's Spectacular Courage [3:33]
22. Tess' Spectacular News [5:46]
23. Woman Of the Year [6:50]
24. After the Banquet [3:30]
25. Ellen Whitcomb's Invitation [4:18]
26. Woman Of the Century [7:14]
27. The Fabulous Mrs. Craig [4:04]
28. Tess' Alarming Culinary Skills [5:56]
29. "I've Come Home, Sam" [2:52]
30. The Waffle Also Rises [2:24]
31. Consoling Tess [1:57]
32. The Clinch / End Credits [:38]

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