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MSN Movies4Top 10 Romantic Movie Moments
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Goodfellas
Out of Sight
Harold and Maude
A Place in the Sun
Say Anything...
The Philadelphia Story
Punch-Drunk Love
Out of the Past
The Apartment
Casablanca
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5. "The Philadelphia Story" (1940)


Oh, how glamorous Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart make getting loaded... or rather, how would they put it? Sauced? Tight? Well, they are drunk anyway in a scene that's dreamy and tipsy and swoony. George Cukor's classic, sophisticated screwball comedy -- which also starred that dapper leading man, Cary Grant -- has the blue-blood Kate mesmerizing the working-class reporter Stewart, even if she's set to marry another man (who, of course, is not right for her). Hepburn's Tracy is continually called something of an ice goddess, but the tables are turned during this moonlight dip wherein Stewart utters lines that are music to her ears: "There's magnificence in you ... a magnificence that comes out of your eyes, in your voice, in the way you stand there, in the way you walk. You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts ... you're made out of flesh and blood. That's the blank, unholy surprise of it. You're the golden girl, Tracy. Full of life and warmth and delight. What goes on? You've got tears in your eyes." Yes, we would too.

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