Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant?

So I watched the witty and wonderful film The Philadelphia Story again recently and I can see why it made sense at the time to have Katharine Hepburn's Tracy Lord choose ex-husband C.K. Dexter Haven (Grant) over writer Mike Connor (Jimmy Stewart). The film was released in 1940 and Cary Grant's dashing and wealthy C.K. Dexter Haven was a more appropriate and convenient (they'd already been married once) match for heiress Tracy Lord. I prefer the more passionate and complex Mike.

Film Trivia via IMDB:
Playwright Philip Barry based the character of Tracy on Katharine Hepburn's public image at the time. She'd left her previous studio, RKO, on bad terms, which only worsened her (temporarily) unpopular image.

James Stewart had no plans to attend the Oscar ceremony the year he was nominated for this film. Just before the ceremony began, he received a call at home "advising" him to slip into a dinner jacket and attend the ceremony. He did and he received the award for Best Actor. This was in the days before an accounting firm kept the Oscar voting results secret.