Cooper: Diane, last night I dreamed I was eating a large, tasteless gumdrop, and awoke to discover I was chewing on one of my foam disposable earplugs. Perhaps I should consider moderating my nighttime coffee consumption.
-- "Twin Peaks"

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Book management sites

If you're on Shelfari, join me there. My profile name is KillerOwl.  I'm also trying out Goodreads -- might have to search by my name there. And the BiblioCommons service that may be available on your library's website after you login to your library account.  (Searching may not be possible. Might have to make a list or review before someone else can see you.)

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Cary Grant Project

I'm not sure why I like this one as much as I do. When you stop and think about it, there's not all that much going on in "Holiday", originally a stage play.  But it does have both Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, so that probably boosts it up a lot. In this one, Cary Grant wants to go off and enjoy his life as soon as he has enough money to do so, and then later put in all those long years of working, when he's older. Crazy rebel. Which makes him kind of disruptive in the house of the girl he wants to marry, what with them being part of the super rich and her father expecting him to join his business and make money. Lots and lots of money. Four-story mansions in Manhattan with half a dozen servants don't come cheap, you know. But everyone in the family isn't so stuffy and pretentious as the girl and her father. For instance, "black sheep" sister, Katharine Hepburn. Hmm. I wonder which sister he'll end up with.

  1. "North By Northwest", 1959, also starring Eva Marie Saint and James Mason
  2. "Bringing Up Baby", 1938, also starring Katharine Hepburn
  3. "Charade", 1963, also starring Audrey Hepburn
  4. "The Philadelphia Story", 1940, also starring Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart
  5. "The Awful Truth", 1937, also starring Irene Dunne
  6. "Notorious", 1946, also starring Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains
  7. "His Girl Friday", 1940, also starring Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy
  8. "People Will Talk", 1951, also starring Hume Cronyn
  9. "Houseboat", 1958, also starring Sophia Loren
  10. "Holiday", 1938, also starring Katharine Hepburn
  11. "My Favorite Wife", 1940, also starring Irene Dunne
  12. "Father Goose", 1964, also starring Leslie Caron
  13. "Indiscreet", 1958, also starring Ingrid Bergman
  14. "Suspicion", 1941, also starring Joan Fontaine
  15. "The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer", 1947, also starring Myrna Loy
  16. "An Affair To Remember", 1957, also starring Deborah Kerr
  17. "To Catch A Thief", 1955, also starring Grace Kelly
  18. "The Talk Of The Town", 1942, also starring Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman
  19. "That Touch Of Mink", 1962, also starring Doris Day and Gig Young
  20. "Operation Petticoat", 1959, also starring Tony Curtis
  21. "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944, also starring Raymond Massey
  22. "The Bishop's Wife", 1947, also starring Loretta Young and David Niven
  23. "Monkey Business", 1952, also starring Ginger Rogers
  24. "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House", 1948, also starring Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas
  25. "Walk Don't Run", 1966
  26. "Destination Tokyo", 1943, also starring John Garfield
  27. "Only Angels Have Wings", 1939, also starring Jean Arthur
  28. "I Was A Male War Bride", 1949, also starring Ann Sheridan
  29. "Once Upon A Honeymoon", 1942, also starring Ginger Rogers
  30. "In Name Only", 1939, also starring Carole Lombard
  31. "The Amazing Adventure", 1936
  32. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
  33. "Born To Be Bad", 1934, also starring Loretta Young
  34. "The Grass Is Greener", 1960, also starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
  35. "Kiss Them For Me", 1957, also starring Jayne Mansfield, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer
  36. "Penny Serenade", 1941, also starring Irene Dunne
  37. "Night And Day", 1946, also starring Alexis Smith
  38. "The Howards Of Virginia", 1940, also starring Martha Scott
  39. "Room For One More", 1952, also starring Betsy Drake
  40. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
  41. "I'm No Angel", 1933, also starring Mae West
  42. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  43. "None But The Lonely Heart", 1944, also starring Ethel Barrymore
  44. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
  45. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren