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Director: George Cukor Year: 1938 Run-time: 1 hr 35 min - This is the second Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn film in this very year, but it's a very different romance from Bringing Up Baby , and they're both excellent films in their own ways. Holiday  starts out with the same "rich heiress" theme, but takes it in a different direction, and has a much warmer heart than one would expect from a comedy of this era.  On the surface, it's a film about class, but it turns out to be a film about being stuck in a life you're unhappy with.  Clare and I both thought it was sweet, and in the end it's not surprising that it came of a theatrical origin, as well as being directed by the same man at the lead of David Copperfield , even though those films are very different.

Director: George Cukor Year: 1935 Run-time: 2 hr 9 min - David Copperfield is not a Dickens novel I'm especially familiar with, but this film does an excellent job giving me the full scope of the book in a breezy two hours.  The snappy pace at which it covers a long period of a man's life is pretty enviable, and though some emotional story beats feel cheapened because of it (especially the death of Copperfield's first wife), it still succeeds as a movie by keeping a high melodramatic pitch throughout.  This is a story that's largely about empathy, and this film has no trouble helping us feel for its characters, even though the situations are not as dire as some of Dickens' other novels, such as Oliver Twist.