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Post by Isapop on Jan 28, 2018 1:30:59 GMT
Both based on plays by Philip Barry. Both adapted by Donald Ogden Stewart (with Sidney Buchman for Holiday). Both directed by George Cukor. Both starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. And both are romantic comedies with a class warfare angle. Of the two I prefer "Holiday". It has a layer of warmth, seen in the relationships between Hepburn and brother Lew Ayers, and between Grant and his friends Edward Everett Horton & Jean Dixon. That warmth is something TPA doesn't try to provide. So I have more feeling for "Holiday". Which do you prefer? |
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Post by petrolino on Jan 28, 2018 2:35:07 GMT
I prefer 'The Philadelphia Story'.
Have you seen the earlier version, 'Holiday' (1930), with Creighton Hale? I've not seen that one.
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Post by marshamae on Jan 28, 2018 2:40:57 GMT
Love them both to much to give away either one! But Holiday is so unexpected in places that it really wins me. I love the Potters as the intellectual critics of the rich, more than Connor and his lady photographer. The Potters are funny, happy and their domesticity is a nice counterpoint to the loveless h9melife of the Seatons.
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Post by OldAussie on Jan 28, 2018 2:50:49 GMT
Holiday for me.
Don't really care for the characters in The Philadelphia Story. It's not bad but its charm escapes me. And Jimmy Stewart has given dozens of more memorable performances. His oscar win is a mystery - unless the obvious is true, that it's to make up for the one he should have won the previous year.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 3:03:55 GMT
The Philadelphia Story
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Post by wmcclain on Jan 28, 2018 3:05:22 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Jan 28, 2018 3:06:25 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 28, 2018 5:56:38 GMT
Philly for me with High Society working nearly as well.
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Post by Isapop on Jan 28, 2018 11:18:06 GMT
I prefer 'The Philadelphia Story'. Have you seen the earlier version, 'Holiday' (1930), with Creighton Hale? I've not seen that one. Neither have I. Interesting that Edward Everett Horton plays the same role in that earlier version. |
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Post by bess1971s on Jan 28, 2018 16:59:27 GMT
I like them both. One of the best things about Holiday was Horton and Jean Dixon as Cary Grant's friends who refuse to allow themselves to be made to feel inferior by Hepburn's upper crust relatives. Loved their quips. Same can be said for James Stewart and Ruth Hussey in TPS.
In both movies I was more drawn to the secondary actors rather than the stars.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 22:49:51 GMT
Holiday.
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Post by Isapop on Jan 28, 2018 23:16:56 GMT
I like them both. One of the best things about Holiday was Horton and Jean Dixon as Cary Grant's friends who refuse to allow themselves to be made to feel inferior by Hepburn's upper crust relatives. Loved their quips. Same can be said for James Stewart and Ruth Hussey in TPS. In both movies I was more drawn to the secondary actors rather than the stars. HEY! None of that namby pamby "I like them both" stuff around here! If Sophie can make a choice so can you! So, pick one if you know what's good f'ya. |
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Post by bess1971s on Jan 30, 2018 19:43:23 GMT
I like them both. One of the best things about Holiday was Horton and Jean Dixon as Cary Grant's friends who refuse to allow themselves to be made to feel inferior by Hepburn's upper crust relatives. Loved their quips. Same can be said for James Stewart and Ruth Hussey in TPS. In both movies I was more drawn to the secondary actors rather than the stars. HEY! None of that namby pamby "I like them both" stuff around here! If Sophie can make a choice so can you! So, pick one if you know what's good f'ya. Oh Yeah! I stand by my opinion. I ain't a scared of youse! |
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Post by Isapop on Jan 31, 2018 1:22:21 GMT
HEY! None of that namby pamby "I like them both" stuff around here! If Sophie can make a choice so can you! So, pick one if you know what's good f'ya. Oh Yeah! I stand by my opinion. I ain't a scared of youse! Gee.
I don't really know what to say now.
I'm used to people doing what I say.
Nobody's ever stood up to me like this before.
You know something?
It's kinda nice.
Who'da thought?
You must be a pretty special kinda person.
Well, thanks.
I guess I better be goin' now. Maybe I'll seeya around sometime.
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Post by louise on Jan 31, 2018 19:23:14 GMT
I don't care much for either. Too much pontificating in both of them. I prefer Bringing Up Baby.
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Post by bess1971s on Feb 1, 2018 17:00:10 GMT
Oh Yeah! I stand by my opinion. I ain't a scared of youse! Gee.
I don't really know what to say now.
I'm used to people doing what I say.
Nobody's ever stood up to me like this before.
You know something?
It's kinda nice.
Who'da thought?
You must be a pretty special kinda person.
Well, thanks.
I guess I better be goin' now. Maybe I'll seeya around sometime.
Hey, I'll be around. Just whistle, etc, etc. |
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Post by geode on Feb 2, 2018 7:47:30 GMT
Both based on plays by Philip Barry. Both adapted by Donald Ogden Stewart (with Sidney Buchman for Holiday). Both directed by George Cukor. Both starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. And both are romantic comedies with a class warfare angle. Of the two I prefer "Holiday". It has a layer of warmth, seen in the relationships between Hepburn and brother Lew Ayers, and between Grant and his friends Edward Everett Horton & Jean Dixon. That warmth is something TPA doesn't try to provide. So I have more feeling for "Holiday". Which do you prefer? This one is easy for me because of all the revered classic films I dislike "The Philadelphia Story" the most whereas I really like *Holiday"... My problem with the one I do not like is that I find its characters irritating. I like them a lot more as played by others in "High Society"... |
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Post by teleadm on Feb 2, 2018 17:54:48 GMT
I absolutely dislike having to choose between these two movies, as they are also at some turning point in Cary Grant's career, as he is very acrobatic in movies up until Holiday, while in The Philadelphia Story he had begun to play more sophisticated charming but not always reliable roles (with a few exceptions).
So with a twisted arm I say The Philadelphia Story.
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