Holiday (Criterion Collection) (DVD)

Two years before stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and director George Cukor would collaborate on The Philadelphia Story, they brought their timeless talents to this delectable slice of 1930s romantic-comedy perfection, the second film adaptation of a hit 1928 play by Philip Barry. Grant is at his charismatic best as the acrobatically inclined free spirit who, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancee's aristocratic family setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister (Hepburn). With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, Holiday is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as well as a thoughtful reflection on what it truly means to live well.

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell, Charles Trowbridge, George Pauncefort, Charles Richman, Neil Fitzgerald, Marion Ballou, Howard Hickman, Hilda Plowright, Mabel Colcord, Bess Flowers, Raymond Lawrence, Beatrice Curtis, Beatrice Blinn, Harry Allen, Edward Cooper, Margaret McWade, Frank Shannon, Aileen Carlyle, Matt McHugh, Maurice Brierre, Lillian West, George Hickman

Director: Everett J. Riskin