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Character dramas are often at their best when exploring inside worlds and not running free outside.
Starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in top form, George Cukor's serio comedy is the second and best version of the play.
Old fashioned Grant/Hepburn classic.
Cukor's direction here can best be described as savvy: Holiday develops in a witty, funny way, and its themes unfold as the movie progresses.
Charming and melancholic, Holiday %u2026 breezing by in comparison to the more loquacious %u2026 banter-fest, The Philadelphia Story.
Grant is at home as a free spirit connecting with other strange 'birds,' and Holiday has plenty of energy, charm and some dynamite lines.
This is one of Grant's best performances and one of the best film's Cukor directed.
Why is The Philadelphia Story so well known, while the equally unforgettable Holiday, from the same director, writers, and leads, suffers comparative neglect?
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