IMO Sinatra (a fine actor in the right parts, I'll admit) and Crosby can't hold a candle to Grant and Stewart

Part of the problem there is that Kelly, Sinatra, and Crosby were all going up against icons at the height of their star powers. I think Crosby comes off the worst -- you can imagine how Tracy could be attracted to Dex as played by Cary Grant. Bing Crosby, especially at that point in his career, not so much.

Crosby was an affable presence in movies at best (not unlike Dean Martin, actually - Rio Bravo being the BIG exception). This was not him at this most affable.

OTOH, I'll take being LDB'ed by him and Bowie any day of the year.

For something completely different, but the same era as The Philadelphia Story, may I recommend The Walking Dead? Not the current series, but an old Boris Karloff movie.

Karloff plays John Ellman, a down-on-his-luck musician who's convicted (wrongly, but when you have the Mob against you -- including your own attorney -- you don't have much of a chance). Two young scientists witness the murder and know who's really guilty, but word doesn't get to the governor before the execution (thanks to that attorney I mentioned a moment ago, played by Ricardo Cortez). The young scientists work for a doctor (Edmund Gwenn) who's working on a way to revive the dead. So, instead of saving Ellman's life in the first place, our young scientists help the doctor raise Ellman from the dead. They succeed, and somehow Ellman just -- knows -- who railroaded him. And he just wants to find out why....

It's more gangster movie than horror movie, and I can't overstate how perfect Karloff is as Ellman -- a gentle soul, too trusting that the truth will out in time to save him, then confused and hurt over why the Mob did this to him. (He comes across not unlike Buffy in early S6.) Unfortunately, his performance is so perfect that everyone else comes off poorly.

In case you were anxiously waiting for Gods of Egypt:

Gods of Egypt is the most racist film in the last one hundred years. It is the most diabolically conceived, politically incorrect, and unapologetically racist film since Birth of a Nation (the 1915 white one, not the 2016 black one, and how cool is it that we have to clarify that now?). It is more racist than Song of the South and Soul Man, which is no small feat. It is more racist than Mississippi Burning, The Revenant, The Help and Dragonball Evolution. It is more racist than the eye-rolling Bringing Down the House and The Last Samurai. It manages to somehow be more racist than Blended and Dances With Wolves. It is more racist than Dangerous Minds and its didn’t-bring-shit-to-the-party cousin, Freedom Writers. It is magically more racist than The Green Mile. It has unseated my standing favorite, The Lone Ranger, for most racist movie, and I thought Johnny Depp’s Tonto was going to get us to at least 2020.

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The real question is, does it exceed the racism of Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's? Because I'm assuming he had to give up Japanese food forever the day that opened to avoid death by rat poison-laced teriyaki sauce.

That may be a question of one character in an otherwise good movie versus an entire shitty movie.

Oh I love the movie, no argument, but whenever anyone mentions racism in movies it's the iconic performance that springs immediately to mind for me.

It's actually worth reading at least the first comment to that, because it features an Egyptian getting testy about the (otherwise hilarious) post's wrongness about, well, Egypt and the Egyptian people.

What is your favorite film from the last year that was not nominated for any Oscar?

I only saw a few movies from the last year. (kids) Mostly big ones. So... Ant Man I guess? I don't really know what was nominated for the technical awards. It wasn't really a mindblowing year for me in any way.