Philadelphia Story Script Analysis

ACT ONE

• Dinah and Tracy talk about Dexter hitting her

• Dinah calls dexter and invites him for lunch

• sandy enters and reveals the sidney kidd article about their father and that reporters from destiny are coming as a trade off

• tracy asks for books of mike

• mike and liz meet sandy

• dinah speaks french to them lol

• tracy interrogates mike and liz

• they pretend uncle willie is their father

• dexter enters and is like wow it’s immoral how good i feel

• seth enters and they pretend HE’S uncle willie

ACT TWO, SCENE ONE

• liz asks about having tina mara come and dance for the wedding

• tracy and mike talk about writing and flirt a bit

• dexter comes in and there’s the whole virgin goddess conversation

• mike leaves and dexter tells her george is just a tower and she needs regard for human frailty

• tracy unwraps dexter’s package

• george says she’s a marvelous distant queen and tracy freaks

• seth and tracy argue about her character and seth wants to tell mike and liz they know

• seth and mike both explain at the same time

• tracy and mike flirt a bit before everyone leaves

• tracy drinks some champagne

ACT TWO, SCENE TWO

• sandy and tracy plan sandy’s story about kidd that they’re gonna trade for the wedding story

• tracy and mike big flirt professor scene and mike rambles about how wonderful she is and they FLEE to the pool

• liz reveals to sandy she loves mike

• george and dexter see mike come in carrying tracy

• dexter punches mike

ACT THREE

• dinah tells willie about tracy and wants tracy to marry mike

• dexter’s like it was just a dream

• tracy says she doesn’t remember anything, but the pool mention kinda reminds her

• dinah tells tracy about her dream

• mike calls her darling and wonderful but tracy is avoidant

• dext and tracy flirt talk about boats

• sandy says sidney kidd is reading the story

• tracy reads george note about being appalled and wanting an explanation and tracy’s like i wish i had one

• mike tells tracy they just kissed

• tracy tells george i hoped youd’d think better of me

• sandy says kidd loves the story

• mike asks tracy to marry him and she says no

• tracy announces to the people that she’s marrying dexter

• tracy feels like a human!