Movies at Mechanics' Presents The Philadephia Story (1940)
Date and Time
- Friday, Sep 5, 2025 6pm - 8:30pm
Location
Mechanics' Institute
57 Post St
Details
Movies at Mechanics' has welcomed film enthusiasts for classic cinema screenings and salons on Friday evenings for over 20 years. Join us for fresh popcorn, lively discourse, and your favorite films the first three Fridays of the month.
What's Playing: The Philadelphia Story
Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart star in the classic, multiple Academy Award-winning romantic comedy--The Philadelphia Story. On the eve of Tracy Samantha Lord's (Hepburn) wedding, her blue-blood ex-husband, C.K. Dexter Haven (Grant), returns. C.K. discovered that a national tabloid plans to do an expose on Tracy's philandering father and has agreed to smuggle a reporter (James Stewart) into her wedding if the magazine kills the story on the elder Lord. But C.K. never expects that the woman he still loves will suddenly fall for the undercover reporter. Now, before the evening is over, Tracy will be forced to take an unflinching look at herself and to realize which of these three men she truly loves. Based on a play by Philip Barry.
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September 12 – The Women
September 19 – Funny Face with co-host Tony Bravo of the San Francisco Chronicle
Hosted by Lara Gabrielle, film writer and author of Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies.