The Philadelphia Story
Philadelphia Story, The.
Author: Philip Barry
First Performance: 1939, New York
Published: 1939
Genre: Com. in 3 acts
Setting: Mansion outside Philadelphia, June 1939
Cast: 8m, 7f
Tracy Lord, a wealthy and beautiful divorcee, is about to remarry. Her fiancé George Kitteredge, although he began as a coal miner, is now an insufferable rich snob, but seems an improvement on her first husband C. K. Dexter Haven, whom she divorced for ‘cruelty and drunkenness’.
Destiny magazine is invited to cover the wedding to divert the society columns from her father's scandalous affair with a dancer in New York. Tracy becomes infatuated with their reporter Macaulay (Mike) Connor, a liberal and sensitive writer. Her ex-husband Dexter and her father arrive uninvited for the wedding and sting Tracy with their searching...
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