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Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, Holiday, 1938

Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart. Gown by Adrian.

Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938)

If the coming of sound changed the aesthetic dynamics of the filmmaking process, it altered the economic structure of the industry even more, precipitating some of the largest mergers in motion-picture history. Throughout the 1920s, Paramount, MGM, First National, and other studios had conducted ambitious campaigns of vertical integration by ruthlessly acquiring first-run theatre chains. It was primarily in response to those aggressive maneuvers that Warner Brothers and Fox sought to…

Richard Brody lists directors from Hollywood’s studio-system era—such as Busby Berkeley, John Cassavetes, George Cukor, Ida Lupino, Vincente Minnelli, and Orson Welles—and recommends films from their catalogues that rank among his favorite.

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Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn

The Philadelphia Story publicity photo