― Ellen Lane (Ellen Lane), Saturday, 27 March 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― johnny fitz (johnny fitz), Saturday, 27 March 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link
25: Cary screwballing for all he's worth, dancing like the acrobat he started out as, at a lavish ball at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich!
(I now only have 'Operation Petticoat' left on the boxset, and I don't have high hopes for it. It co-stars Tony Curtis, for pity's sake! Why isn't 'I was a male war bride' on DVD yet?)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 25 April 2004 09:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 25 April 2004 09:56 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 09:59 (twenty years ago) link
i have never met anyone who does not like cary grant.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 25 April 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 April 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link
i only sort-of like cary grant.
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 25 April 2004 11:51 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2342/3_32/55082381/p1/article.jhtml
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 25 April 2004 11:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 25 April 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago) link
also i said this on another thread but his interview on the some like it hot dvd is a must-see
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 April 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link
― spittle (spittle), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
When he's telling Hildy that "they'll build statues of you in the park" and then he does his impression of a statue.
― Michael White (Hereward), Sunday, 25 April 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Sunday, 25 April 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago) link
"excuse me madame! are you referring to me?" with full hand gestures. his whole performance is impeccable tho...
― Robert Lumsden (Wallace), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link
― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Monday, 26 April 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 April 2004 03:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 26 April 2004 04:09 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 April 2004 05:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Monday, 26 April 2004 06:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 26 April 2004 07:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Monday, 26 April 2004 08:58 (twenty years ago) link
"She's OOOLLDDD!"
― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:11 (twenty years ago) link
― the babefox, Monday, 26 April 2004 11:20 (twenty years ago) link
Exactly. It's really sort of a daffy, fluffy, girly-girl vision of a suspense film. I'm not saying it's my favorite Cary Grant film but I do have a certain amount of affection for it.
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link
-- Robbie Lumsden (9904464...), April 26th, 2004.
That line always cracks me up.
― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 26 April 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link
(sounds awful, but it's true... i love him, but i've never really gone for the serious, dramatic, greying older grant)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 26 April 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 26 April 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link
Cary Grant and LSD (long, worth reading)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
based on his recent viewing of To Catch a Thief, Doctor Casino may need a talking-to on Archie Leach appreciation from Sotosyn.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 November 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
unclear if there’s a “main” cary/archie thread but after a lifetime of finding him ok but not really getting ‘it’... I TOTALLY GET IT NOWwatching Cary Grant movies with eyes that work is a whole new experience & i love him so much i had never seen Bishop’s Wife til today <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 November 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
The new biog by Scott Eyman is terrific.
And now Criterion Channel is about to offer a CG series in December.
My only issue with exploring his filmography is it seems that all the best ones are also the ones everybody talks about, so I keep searching for an overlooked gem of some kind if it exists. Haven't seen Bishop's Wife though.
― Josefa, Monday, 30 November 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
It went in a direction I didnt expect, and Grant & Niven are wonderful in their scenes together. It’s great!My Grant love was sparked by the Secret History of Hollwyood podcast, which recently begun a series on him. Just hearing the early details of his life story has completely entrhralled me.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 November 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
It is (full disclosure: I know him through local South Florida acquaintances). Unlike other Grant bios, he doesn't try to Understand Him. He accepts him at his word as a made-up creation.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 November 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
i will def seek it out!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 November 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
Eyman's John Ford bio was fantastic, but I haven't read any of his others. (He's way too hard on The Fugitive, though).
Merrily We Go to Hell and Blonde Venus are both good early pre-breakout supporting roles for Cary Grant
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 November 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
I am currently enjoying People Will Talk
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 November 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
My favorite is Holiday; I keep meaning to make my housemates watch it.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 30 November 2020 05:13 (three years ago) link
I havent seen that! i will add it to the list
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 November 2020 05:40 (three years ago) link
Holiday is the best.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 November 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
Merrily we go to hell is kinda interesting because you’re watching the movie and then Cary grant shows up and ur like ‘no show me more of THAT guy’
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 30 November 2020 05:43 (three years ago) link
From: https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/george-cukor-films-favorites-film-society-2013/
Dan Callahan – RogerEbert.com and Senses of Cinema – George CukorHoliday is a very special movie, a magic movie, a movie that believably insists that you can create your own world with your friends. And it might not have worked. The Philip Barry play it is based on is always on the verge of becoming brittle and precious. But Cukor and Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant make it into the ultimate party movie for outsiders. There is one shot in Holiday that is emblematic of all Cukor's work: when Hepburn's Linda turns her toy giraffe to profile and says, “Looks like me!” It's the most cheerful disclosure of freakdom in all of cinema, and it says, “Just admit you're a freak. And then have your fun.”
Holiday is a very special movie, a magic movie, a movie that believably insists that you can create your own world with your friends. And it might not have worked. The Philip Barry play it is based on is always on the verge of becoming brittle and precious. But Cukor and Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant make it into the ultimate party movie for outsiders. There is one shot in Holiday that is emblematic of all Cukor's work: when Hepburn's Linda turns her toy giraffe to profile and says, “Looks like me!” It's the most cheerful disclosure of freakdom in all of cinema, and it says, “Just admit you're a freak. And then have your fun.”
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 November 2020 05:47 (three years ago) link
I couldn't get into Holiday.... or any other Cukor movies to be frank. I really don't get it, because I love The Awful Truth, which is the same basic situation as Holiday.
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 November 2020 05:57 (three years ago) link
Scott Eyman's biography is even better than I dared hope.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 March 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it was so good that I'm thinking of getting the John Wayne one even though I don't care one bit about John Wayne.
― trishyb, Friday, 5 March 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
just watched The Bishop's Wife, a perfectly serviceable Cary Grant Charm Delivery Vehicle that i never need to see again. i was intrigued by this bit in the wikipedia entry: "the film didn't do very well at the box office at first. Market research showed that moviegoers avoided the film because they thought it was religious. So, Goldwyn decided to re-title it Cary and the Bishop's Wife for some US markets".
i'm trying & failing to think of other movie titles that include the IRL name of the lead actor... other than abbot & costello, are there any other examples of this strange phenomenon?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 04:14 (two years ago) link
Being John Malkovich obv
There's a lot of old timey comedians who would do this because their stage name would also be the name of the character - Mexican comedian Cantinflas, George Formby.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 10:50 (two years ago) link
The Bishop's Wife is just okay.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 11:08 (two years ago) link
I can't (things like JCVD and Being John Malkovich don't really count as the actors are actually characters in the films) and I honestly think it's only convention and squeamishness that prevents it. After all, it's why a good number of people go to see a film if it's not part of a franchise (OK, that's an increasingly small number of films), so marketing could save themselves a lot of work by just calling a film Robert Pattinson's Tenet or whatever.
― Alba, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 11:54 (two years ago) link
Cheech and Chongs Up In Smoke, etc
― Ste, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link
I can't (things like JCVD and Being John Malkovich don't really count as the actors are actually characters in the films)
That kicks out Abbott and Costello too tho. But as far as that goes, the Portuguese title for one Jackie Chan film (Police Story 2 I think?) is Jackie Chan Is The Protagonist.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
ha, I was just wondering if a Chan film was one.
― Ste, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 12:01 (two years ago) link
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn GorillaAbbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (you got a threefer right there)
― Rep. Cobra Commander (R-TX) (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 12:13 (two years ago) link
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Particularly keen on this formulation being employed more often
The Last Temptation of Christ, Willem DafoeThe English Patient, Ralph FiennesThree Men – Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson – and a Baby An Officer and a Gentleman, both Richard Gere perhaps
― Alba, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
its hilarious to me that karloff is personally identified as a murderer. hard to imagine a modern equivalent: The Green Room Attacked By A Nazi, Patrick Stewart
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Johnny Depp? Leonardo DiCaprio
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
I honestly think it's only convention and squeamishness that prevents it
Yeah, though it's always been accepted in tv.
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
moviegoers avoided the film because they thought it was religious
In 1947 ... will wonders never cease.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
His name could almost be City Guess if you squinted
― Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
Movie Titles with the Star’s Name in Them
(Though most are actors playing characters that have their name.)
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
ha thats awesome, its just what i need, thanks for posting that
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
There's also the weird example of Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) in which actor Charlie Ruggles is one of the principal cast but does not play "Ruggles." What were the odds.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
the Portuguese title for one Jackie Chan film (Police Story 2 I think?) is Jackie Chan Is The Protagonist.― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, November 30, 2021 6:00 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, November 30, 2021 6:00 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I think there was a Jackie Chan movie marketed in the U.S. as Jackie Chan's First Strike also. Not quite as good as Jackie Chan is the Protagonist, though.
― JRN, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
JRN i can confirm that bc i actually watched it last night, lol
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
How was it? I haven't seen it since whenever it came out in theaters here.
― JRN, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
i would say just watch the highlights on youtube, but the whole thing is only like 75 minutes. scene where he fights a gang using an a-frame ladder is a career highlight. also kills a guy using spiny sea urchins, which i believe is a cinematic first.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
Lateraling over here from watching Jean Arthur in Easy Living on the Sturges thread (actually there are more than one) to rewatching The Talk of the Town. Ronald Colman is kind of a dud which makes this not quite up to its close silbing The More the Merrier but it is still nearly as good. Cary is very watchable, even with his Magwitch limp.
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
Jean Arthur apparently complained about Cary Grant upstaging her with his mugging which of course she would. She is superb in this, hitting all her notes, including one in particular involving eggs, doing a little hair-involved improv in the mirror in another bit. Haters need not watch.
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
Speaking of Jean's hair, need to travel back to the other thread. Ta-ta!
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
Been working my way through the Indicator Mae West box and Cary really brought out the best in her.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:18 (one year ago) link