Holiday

SYNOPSIS

This absolutely magical entertainment - an expert brew of comedy, pathos, romance and social comment - comes courtesy of the team that, two years later, would reunite to make The Philadelphia Story: screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart, working from a play by Philip Barry; director George Cukor; and Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, he at his most thoughtful and charming, she never more beautiful or touching. Previously filmed in 1930, it's the tale of a man (Grant) who falls in love with a girl (Doris Nolan). When she turns out to be from the top drawer of mega-wealthy New York society, he finds himself enmeshed in more than he bargained for - especially after her sister (Hepburn) takes a shine to him. The stars sparkle in the midst of a superb supporting cast that notably includes Edward Everett Horton and Lew Ayres. Definitely a film out of the "they don't make them like that any more" stable.