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Barry Philip Jerome Quinn
(1896—1949)

Philip Jerome Quinn Barry was an American playwright. Though remembered for his comedies about manners, he also wrote serious dramas, often on religious themes. His 1927 play John is about the Baptist, and Barry himself described his 1938 allegory Here Come the Clowns as a study of "the battle with evil," in which his hero, Clancy, "at last finds God in the will of man." Many of Barry's plays were adapted for television in the 1950s. His best known work is The Philadelphia Story (1939), which was made into a popular 1940 film starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart. Hepburn, a close friend of Barry, had appeared in the play on Broadway, and bought the movie rights (with the help of her ex-boyfriend Howard Hughes), and successfully restarted her previously flagging Hollywood career with the film version. Philip Barry was born in Rochester, New York and died in New York City, aged 53, of a heart attack.

Guinea, 2007, Katharine Hepburn, «The Philadelphia story»

Guinea, 2007, Katharine Hepburn, «Holiday»