Her Cardboard Lover was directed by George Cukor two years after Philadelphia Story and two years before Gaslight. The movie has its fans, but to me it’s a royal mess. It’s clearly an adaptation of a French bedroom farce — literally, in fact, since it’s based on a 1927 Parisian play that was immediately translatedContinue reading “Her Cardboard Lover (1942)”
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Philadelphia Story is in a class of its own. If you tried to construct a canon of Hollywood high comedy of manners, it might be the only member. Lubitsch is satirical about that genre to the point of camp. There are several British films that fit the category but American producers insisted that thereContinue reading “The Philadelphia Story (1940)”