Fans of the musical remake High Society who haven't seen this classic, all-talking, no-dancing original might wish to remedy that. In order to reverse her reputation as "box-office poison" Katharine Hepburn shrewdly bought the rights to the Broadway play (written for her by Philip Barry) in which she had been a hit. With old pal George Cukor as director and a hand-picked cast, this film was a success. In it, her society girl is engaged to John Howard's executive dullard; her ex-husband Cary Grant turns up with information about an imminent press scandal, while a rival publication's reporter James Stewart finds his class-war cynicism melting away as he falls for Hepburn. There's more to it than that, but just sit back and enjoy romantic comedy at its most sublime.

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.