Monday Matinee: 'The Philadelphia Story'

Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart star in this 1940 multiple Academy Award-winning romantic comedy. On the eve of Tracy Samantha Lord's (Hepburn) wedding, her blue-blood ex-husband, C.K. Dexter Haven (Grant), returns. C.K. discovered that a national tabloid plans to do an expose on Tracy's philandering father and has agreed to smuggle a reporter (James Stewart) into her wedding if the magazine kills the story on the elder Lord. But C.K. never expects that the woman he still loves will suddenly fall for the undercover reporter. Now, before the evening is over, Tracy will be forced to take an unflinching look at herself and realize which of these three men she truly loves. Based on a play by Philip Barry.

Directed by George Cukor; 1940; Rated TV-G; 112 minutes.