Rayford Publishing

In the wake of two commercially failed comedies made by Howard Hawks and George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn sought out a project to revive her career. At the same time, Philip Barry, the class-conscious playwright was facing his own career slump. From the beginning, Cukor works to break down the conventions of romantic comedy. He starts the movie with a silent scene. In the end she learns, one does not have to come from the aristocracy to be a “heel”; the middle class has its sh