This week Chicago moviegoers have the opportunity to see not one but two films featuring the one and only Cary Grant: the famous George Cukor comedy The Philadelphia Story (1940) and the lesser-known Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), which screens as part of Chicago Filmmakers'"Dyke Delicious" screening series. The film, in which Grant has a small role, is a pre-Code gem about the rigors of monogamy directed by Dorothy Arzner, a seminal if underappreciated filmmaker notable for being the only female Hollywood director of her era.…
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