Holiday (1938 George Cukor)

Cary Grant is marrying into 'one of the sixty families' through Doris Nolan. Father Henry Kolker disapproves, brother Lew Ayres (good) is a drunk, other sister Katharine Hepburn (fab) is a kook. Grant's surrogate mum and dad are the sweet Edward Everett Horton and Jean Dixon. And Henry Daniell.

Source play (Philip Barry) evident, adaptation by Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman, and though long scenes can be static and talky, acting is great and many funny scenes - acrobatics of Grant and Hepburn amazing, as is the way he walks into the cabin right at the end - Grant can do things like this amazingly well.

Made at Columbia. Photographed by Franz Planer. The UCLA 'restored' version is very grainy.