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Anyway, presented for the first time, quote: 'A Wedding Day Inside Mainline Society.' -Or what the kitchen maid saw through the keyhole. Unquote.

12 seconds sound clip from the The Philadelphia Story movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:11:20 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Tracy Lord. Big game hunting in Africa, fox hunting in Pennsylvania.

- Married on impulse and divorced in a rage. And always unapproachable by the press.

- 'The Unapproachable Miss Lord. The Philadelphia Story.'

- Closed were the portals of snobbish fox hunting...

- No. No hunter of foxes is Spy magazine.

- Anyway, presented for the first time, quote: 'A Wedding Day Inside Mainline Society.' -Or what the kitchen maid saw through the keyhole. Unquote.

- Go ahead, Connor. Writing's your job. I'm only the publisher.

- All right, publisher, take this. Quote: 'No hunter of buckshot in the rear is cagey, crafty Connor.' Unquote.

- Close paragraph.

- Close job. Close bank account.

- But look, how could we possibly get inside the Lord estate, let alone the house?

- Now, we're not gonna do it, doggone it. It's degrading. It's undignified.

- Well, so is an empty stomach.

[...]

The Philadelphia Story (1940) Sound Clip

The Philadelphia Story (1940) Poster

Discover the best lines from the classic film "The Philadelphia Story" with our collection of quotes featuring sound bites from the movie.

Actors: James Stewart (Macaulay Connor), Cary Grant (C.K. Dexter Haven), Katharine Hepburn (Tracy Lord), Ruth Hussey (Elizabeth Imbrie), Virginia Weidler (Dinah Lord), Roland Young (Uncle Willie)

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