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[oneirophrenic]

The Philadelphia Story should have ended in a three-way relationship between Hepburn, Grant, and Stewart.

Grant and Stewart have as much chemistry with each other as either does with Hepburn, and the film spends much of its runtime luxuriating in the tension among all three. Every scene in which Grant and Stewart verbally spar is alight with the same sexual frisson that screwball comedies usually reserve for male-female pairings. The eventual ending (pairing Stewart off with Ruth Hussey) is simply the most socially acceptable way to collapse a genuinely triadic dynamic back into respectable couples. To me, this is an act of narrative cowardice.

Design for Living had the courage to embrace a bolder resolution seven years earlier -- before the Hays Code made such things unthinkable, of course. By comparison, The Philadelphia Story's conclusion blunts the very energy that makes the film so alive. This timidity -- along with some of the film's dated gender politics -- ultimately hampers it. Hepburn and Grant's other collaborations, like Bringing Up Baby and Holiday, are far more adventurous and satisfying.