Good news for Benchley-short fans, not to mention short Benchley fans, fans of short Benchleys, and all corresponding Friendster networks—oh, and Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant admirers, too. Warner Home Video just released two-disc special editions of Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story. That's fine, as Kate would say. But are they yar? The special features sound first-rate, and what's more, "Along with the Hepburn documentary, the [Philadelphia Story] edition includes a full-length documentary on director George Cukor, a humorous short from Robert Benchley and a cartoon." High society, indeed! By the way, how stupendous is it that Grant made Philadelphia Story and His Girl Friday in the same year? Jude Law is a tower of eyefuls (as Gene Shalit once said of Jurassic Park, but he's still a wee pebble beside the great cairn of Grant's 1940 perfection. (Pauline Kael called him The Man From Dream City.) Even after you've consumed those many hours of goodness, you won't run out of quality cinema. Warner's also rereleasing these, continues Joe Holleman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

—"To Be or Not To Be" (1942): Jack Benny and Carole Lombard, shortly before her death, star in Ernst Lubitsch's anti-Nazi tale of a Polish acting troupe putting on Hamlet.
—"Libeled Lady" (1936): Talk about star-studded. This screwball comedy features Spencer Tracy, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow.
—"Stage Door" (1937): This story, based on an Edna Ferber-George S. Kaufman play, is about life at a theatrical boarding house. The cast includes Hepburn, Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers.
—"Dinner at Eight" (1933): Also a Ferber-Kaufman stage hit, Harlow and Wallace Beery lead the cast in a story about New York socialites.