Cary Grant Project

We've got a new addition:  "Dream Wife", Cary Grant's first movie with Deborah Kerr. He throws her over for a hot, young -- very young -- thing from some indeterminate foreign land where she's the daughter of the Khan.  And where the women still delight in pleasing their men instead of trying to be the man.  Like those darned American women.  In 1953.

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. "Dream Wife", 1953, also starring Deborah Kerr
26. "Walk Don't Run", 1966
27. "Destination Tokyo", 1943, also starring John Garfield
28. "Only Angels Have Wings", 1939, also starring Jean Arthur
29. "I Was A Male War Bride", 1949, also starring Ann Sheridan
30. "The Toast Of New York", 1937, also starring Edward Arnold and Frances Farmer
31. "Once Upon A Honeymoon", 1942, also starring Ginger Rogers
32. "In Name Only", 1939, also starring Carole Lombard
33. "Thirty Day Princess", 1934, also starring Sylvia Sidney
    
34. "The Amazing Adventure", 1936
35. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
36. "Wedding Present", 1936, also starring Joan Bennett
37. "Big Brown Eyes", 1936, also starring Joan Bennett
38. "Born To Be Bad", 1934, also starring Loretta Young
39. "The Grass Is Greener", 1960, also starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
40. "Kiss Them For Me", 1957, also starring Jayne Mansfield, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer
41. "Penny Serenade", 1941, also starring Irene Dunne
42. "Kiss And Make-Up", 1934, also starring Helen Mack
43. "Hot Saturday", 1932, also starring Randolph Scott
44. "Night And Day", 1946, also starring Alexis Smith
45. "The Howards Of Virginia", 1940, also starring Martha Scott
46. "Wings In The Dark", 1935, also starring Myrna Loy
47. "Room For One More", 1952, also starring Betsy Drake
48. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
49. "I'm No Angel", 1933, also starring Mae West
50. "Merrily We Go To Hell", 1932, starring Sylvia Sidney
    
51. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
52. "None But The Lonely Heart", 1944, also starring Ethel Barrymore
53. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
54. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren

Cary Grant Project

It's been a few years, but I haven't forgotten! Started in 2008 and last updated in 2011, the Cary Grant Project continues. Today I watched "The Toast Of New York", the story of Jim Fisk. Cary Grant played his friend and business partner, Nick Boyd; at least, that was the character's name in the movie. It was pretty much Edward Arnold's movie, but Cary Grant was the amiable sidekick, and the voice of reason when it came time for the big "cornering the gold market" climax. This was more of the rougher early Cary Grant, before he hit his 1940s stride, but still enjoyable.

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. "The Toast Of New York", 1937, also starring Edward Arnold and Frances Farmer
30. "Once Upon A Honeymoon", 1942, also starring Ginger Rogers
31. "In Name Only", 1939, also starring Carole Lombard
32. "Thirty Day Princess", 1934, also starring Sylvia Sidney
    
33. "The Amazing Adventure", 1936
34. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
35. "Wedding Present", 1936, also starring Joan Bennett
36. "Big Brown Eyes", 1936, also starring Joan Bennett
37. "Born To Be Bad", 1934, also starring Loretta Young
38. "The Grass Is Greener", 1960, also starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
39. "Kiss Them For Me", 1957, also starring Jayne Mansfield, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer
40. "Penny Serenade", 1941, also starring Irene Dunne
41. "Kiss And Make-Up", 1934, also starring Helen Mack
42. "Hot Saturday", 1932, also starring Randolph Scott
43. "Night And Day", 1946, also starring Alexis Smith
44. "The Howards Of Virginia", 1940, also starring Martha Scott
45. "Wings In The Dark", 1935, also starring Myrna Loy
46. "Room For One More", 1952, also starring Betsy Drake
47. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
48. "I'm No Angel", 1933, also starring Mae West
49. "Merrily We Go To Hell", 1932, starring Sylvia Sidney
    
50. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
51. "None But The Lonely Heart", 1944, also starring Ethel Barrymore
52. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
53. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren

Cary Grant Project

"Wedding Present" was a fun, pre-WWII movie, but it felt like it ended abruptly. It did have Uncle Charley from "My Three Sons", though!

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. "Thirty Day Princess", 1934, also starring Sylvia Sidney
    
32. "The Amazing Adventure", 1936
33. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
34. "Wedding Present", 1936, also starring Joan Bennett
35. "Big Brown Eyes", 1936, also starring Joan Bennett
36. "Born To Be Bad", 1934, also starring Loretta Young
37. "The Grass Is Greener", 1960, also starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
38. "Kiss Them For Me", 1957, also starring Jayne Mansfield, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer
39. "Penny Serenade", 1941, also starring Irene Dunne
40. "Kiss And Make-Up", 1934, also starring Helen Mack
41. "Hot Saturday", 1932, also starring Randolph Scott
42. "Night And Day", 1946, also starring Alexis Smith
43. "The Howards Of Virginia", 1940, also starring Martha Scott
44. "Wings In The Dark", 1935, also starring Myrna Loy
45. "Room For One More", 1952, also starring Betsy Drake
46. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
47. "I'm No Angel", 1933, also starring Mae West
48. "Merrily We Go To Hell", 1932, starring Sylvia Sidney
    
49. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
50. "None But The Lonely Heart", 1944, also starring Ethel Barrymore
51. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
52. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren

Cary Grant Project

Today I finished another double DVD. "Wings In The Dark" was kind of a boring, melodramatic story of a pilot who becomes blind.  "Big Brown Eyes" was a little more interesting. It had the same, breathless, non-stop dialogue that was done much better in "His Girl Friday".  And who could ever imagine such a huge, busy barbershop, where all the guys seemed to be getting manicures along with their haircuts?

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. "Thirty Day Princess", 1934, also starring Sylvia Sidney
    
32. "The Amazing Adventure", 1936
33. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
34. "Big Brown Eyes", 1936, also starring Joan Bennett
35. "Born To Be Bad", 1934, also starring Loretta Young
36. "The Grass Is Greener", 1960, also starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
37. "Kiss Them For Me", 1957, also starring Jayne Mansfield, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer
38. "Penny Serenade", 1941, also starring Irene Dunne
39. "Kiss And Make-Up", 1934, also starring Helen Mack
40. "Hot Saturday", 1932, also starring Randolph Scott
41. "Night And Day", 1946, also starring Alexis Smith
42. "The Howards Of Virginia", 1940, also starring Martha Scott
43. "Wings In The Dark", 1935, also starring Myrna Loy
44. "Room For One More", 1952, also starring Betsy Drake
45. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
46. "I'm No Angel", 1933, also starring Mae West
47. "Merrily We Go To Hell", 1932, starring Sylvia Sidney
    
48. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
49. "None But The Lonely Heart", 1944, also starring Ethel Barrymore
50. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
51. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren

Cary Grant Project

Once again I've found a very early Cary Grant, um, project: "Hot Saturday". He's kind of a cad. And, based on his bad reputation, a nice chick who works at the bank gets her own bad reputation. But he's super rich. It all ends rather abruptly. But, hey, it was 1932. Also starring Randolph Scott. Yes. Randolph! Scott!

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. "Thirty Day Princess", 1934, also starring Sylvia Sidney
    
32. "The Amazing Adventure", 1936
33. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
34. "Born To Be Bad", 1934, also starring Loretta Young
35. "The Grass Is Greener", 1960, also starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
36. "Kiss Them For Me", 1957, also starring Jayne Mansfield, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer
    
37. "Penny Serenade", 1941, also starring Irene Dunne
38. "Kiss And Make-Up", 1934, also starring Helen Mack
39. "Hot Saturday", 1932, also starring Randolph Scott
40. "Night And Day", 1946, also starring Alexis Smith
41. "The Howards Of Virginia", 1940, also starring Martha Scott
42. "Room For One More", 1952, also starring Betsy Drake
43. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
44. "I'm No Angel", 1933, also starring Mae West
45. "Merrily We Go To Hell", 1932, starring Sylvia Sidney
    
46. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
47. "None But The Lonely Heart", 1944, also starring Ethel Barrymore
48. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
49. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren

Cary Grant Project

It's not really fair to compare today's entry, "Merrily We Go To Hell", with the rest of the Cary Grant movies, because not only is it not really a "Cary Grant Movie", he's in maybe a minute of it.  So I just stuck it down near the bottom.  He's an actor in a play and the play is hardly related to the rest of the movie.  It's really about a drunken newspaper guy (Fredric March) who gets married to a lovely rich girl (Sylvia Sidney), but his drinking leads down a tragic path.

This is the earliest release on the list so far -- one of 8 movies Cary Grant appeared in that came out in 1932. What a year.

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. "Thirty Day Princess", 1934, also starring Sylvia Sidney
    
32. "The Amazing Adventure", 1936
33. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
34. "Born To Be Bad", 1934, also starring Loretta Young
35. "The Grass Is Greener", 1960, also starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
36. "Kiss Them For Me", 1957, also starring Jayne Mansfield, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer
    
37. "Penny Serenade", 1941, also starring Irene Dunne
38. "Kiss And Make-Up", 1934, also starring Helen Mack
    
39. "Night And Day", 1946, also starring Alexis Smith
40. "The Howards Of Virginia", 1940, also starring Martha Scott
41. "Room For One More", 1952, also starring Betsy Drake
42. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
43. "I'm No Angel", 1933, also starring Mae West
44. "Merrily We Go To Hell", 1932, starring Sylvia Sidney
    
45. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
46. "None But The Lonely Heart", 1944, also starring Ethel Barrymore
47. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
48. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren

Cary Grant Project

It's like a double feature. I'm adding "Kiss And Make-Up" and "Thirty Day Princess", both from 1934, at the same time. They're combined on one DVD. How about that!  There's something about these pre-1937 Cary Grant movies, it's almost like they're still treating the movies as fancy theater productions. Not that the scenes are static or anything, but what I notice is that Cary Grant generally seems physically real stiff, and overly made up, even with thick lipstick. Well, that's my impression. And then it seems like some big leap forward happened between '36 and '37.

In "Thirty Day Princess", he's the thorn in the side of those nasty bankers keeping the common Depression-era man down. But this banker's using a hot princess-lookalike to raise money for a foreign country's bond issue.  And how could a hot princess-lookalike not fall for Cary Grant.  In "Kiss And Make-Up", he's some kind of smarmy beauty doctor, doing plastic surgery (or the 1930's equivalent) and promoting skin creams and diet and exercise. Because all women want to be beautiful and to be loved.  Ah, some things never change!  There's even a very 1930's-ish car chase scene, filled with longshots that look like a simple studio lot and closeups with fast-moving street scenes projected behind the actors.  (The dude whose wife he steals is played by Edward Everett Horton, who was in no less than 5 movies with Cary Grant. He was 36 when his first movie came out -- but then, there weren't any movies before then. That was in 1922.  Over the next 50 years he had a good 175 movie and TV credits. I kind of wonder if that provided a comfortable standard of living for him. I'm guessing he did alright; although it wouldn't surprise me if his lifetime earnings were less than a star is paid to be in one movie today.)

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. "Thirty Day Princess", 1934, also starring Sylvia Sidney
    
32. "The Amazing Adventure", 1936
33. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
34. "Born To Be Bad", 1934, also starring Loretta Young
35. "The Grass Is Greener", 1960, also starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
36. "Kiss Them For Me", 1957, also starring Jayne Mansfield, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer
    
37. "Penny Serenade", 1941, also starring Irene Dunne
38. "Kiss And Make-Up", 1934, also starring Helen Mack
    
39. "Night And Day", 1946, also starring Alexis Smith
40. "The Howards Of Virginia", 1940, also starring Martha Scott
41. "Room For One More", 1952, also starring Betsy Drake
42. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
43. "I'm No Angel", 1933, also starring Mae West
44. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
45. "None But The Lonely Heart", 1944, also starring Ethel Barrymore
46. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
47. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren

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

May In Review

The big news in May is that I got a job offer, 14 months after being laid off, so now it's back to work.

This month was also the Ludophilia gaming convention.  Four days of board games at the beautiful Crystal Lake Holiday Inn.

And would I be remiss in not mentioning the official completion of "Blackened Blue Roses"? Now available at cdbaby.com and (downloads only) from multiple places, such as iTunes and Amazon's mp3 store.

And in this month's list of movies, a couple of the old ones I'd never seen before were "Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- didn't much care for it and I almost can't tell why so many theater people seem to love it so -- and "Corvette Summer" -- loved it; great combination of Mark Hamill and a Corvette.

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| 2011-05-01 - Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (1989)             |
| 2011-05-03 - National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) |
| 2011-05-04 - Freeway (1996)                              |
| 2011-05-05 - Jonah Hex (2010)                            |
| 2011-05-06 - Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)   |
| 2011-05-07 - Into The Woods (1991)                       |
| 2011-05-08 - Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)    |
| 2011-05-09 - Man On Fire (1987)                          |
| 2011-05-10 - WarGames (1983)                             |
| 2011-05-14 - Born To Be Bad (1934)                       |
| 2011-05-16 - Rules Of Attraction, The (2002)             |
| 2011-05-17 - Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, The (1938)        |
| 2011-05-18 - Man On Fire (2004)                          |
| 2011-05-19 - Freakonomics (2010)                         |
| 2011-05-20 - Seven Samurai (1954)                        |
| 2011-05-21 - Roaring Twenties, The (1939)                |
| 2011-05-26 - Gamer (2009)                                |
| 2011-05-26 - He's Just Not That Into You (2009)          |
| 2011-05-27 - Twelfth Night (1996)                        |
| 2011-05-29 - Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975)       |
| 2011-05-30 - Corvette Summer (1978)                      |
| 2011-05-30 - For Your Eyes Only (1981)                   |
| 2011-05-31 - Ffolkes (1980)                              |
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Cary Grant Project

Hmm.  Another movie about wanting a kid, among other things.  "Born To Be Bad" is one of Cary Grant's early movies.  And it's only an hour long! Loretta Young (in real life, only 21!) is surprisingly bad.  Like, criminally.  She does whatever it takes to get ahead; like fraudulently trying to squeeze big bucks out of a company over an accident, which leads to losing her no-good kid.  And she tries to use men to get ahead, too, just as much as any woman in a modern movie.  The only difference is that today the movie would be longer because they'd actually show all the stuff she does instead of just (blatantly) hinting at it.  I probably would have ranked this higher, except it's much more of a Loretta Young movie than a Cary Grant movie.

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

April In Review

Another month, another month with no job. And this month, no game days, either -- as anticipation builds for Ludophilia 2011 the second week of May.

But I did manage to finish recording the last few songs -- and mixing and mastering all of them -- for the next Ancient Order of the Killer Owl album.  And check this out. While visiting family in Dayton around Easter, some random guy saw my dad wearing a Troubled Loners sweatshirt (ah, remember them?) and wanted to know where he could get one.  Now if I can only get my dad booked as a guest on Conan or something -- wearing the sweatshirt, of course -- I'd be sitting pretty.  Maybe I shouldn't have created a new, better band!  One dude in 20 years is quite a blip on the fan activity meter.


I finally opened the Rock Band "precision" bass that came as a bonus with the Mustang pro guitar I got about four months ago.  The strum bar on my Rock Band 2 guitar is pretty shot, which I guess can happen after a couple years of solidly regular use, even though I'm not very rough with my things. And, surprisingly, the strum bar on my Guitar Hero World Tour guitar isn't that great, either.  Which is odd, since I rarely play that, and when I did, I usually used the Rock Band guitar.  So, rather than torturing myself with those two any longer, I opened this new one which I only got since it was included with another purchase.  It's pretty nice, but the stiff strum bar takes some getting used to, and its wireless signal seems kind of weak, if you're the type to wander far from your console; hopefully the strum bar is what puts the "premium" in this model and it'll last longer.  Join me.  KillerOwl1.  On PSN.  (When it comes back to life.)

Finally, I did manage to see some movies.  A couple popular oldies -- which I had never seen before but which turned out to be pretty good -- were "Deliverance" and "Biloxi Blues".  I think "Deliverance" was playing at a drive-in when I was a kid -- or I've always believed that to be true -- but I only stayed awake for whatever movie came first. I always kind of thought of it as my first R movie, even though I slept through the whole thing back then. I would have been less than ten.

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| 2011-04-02 - Deliverance (1972)                        |
| 2011-04-03 - Quintet (1979)                            |
| 2011-04-04 - Zombieland (2009)                         |
| 2011-04-06 - Time Bandits (1981)                       |
| 2011-04-07 - Zapped! (1982)                            |
| 2011-04-08 - Quiet Earth, The (1985)                   |
| 2011-04-09 - Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)               |
| 2011-04-10 - Biloxi Blues (1988)                       |
| 2011-04-10 - Futureworld (1976)                        |
| 2011-04-13 - Fountain, The (2006)                      |
| 2011-04-14 - Amazing Adventure, The (1936)             |
| 2011-04-16 - Last Samurai, The (2003)                  |
| 2011-04-17 - Lovely Bones, The (2009)                  |
| 2011-04-18 - Catch Me If You Can (2003)                |
| 2011-04-20 - MacGruber (2010)                          |
| 2011-04-21 - Lottery Ticket (2010)                     |
| 2011-04-23 - Time Of The Wolf (2003)                   |
| 2011-04-27 - Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1965)      |
| 2011-04-29 - Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) |
| 2011-04-30 - Edge Of Darkness (2010)                   |
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Cary Grant Project

Today's Cary Grant movie, "The Amazing Adventure", like many from the 1930s, has him playing an Englishman -- although in this one he sounds like regular, old Cary Grant, not Cary Grant with an English accent. I can't say I recognize any of the co-stars. He's a bored wealthy dude who makes one of those crazy bets that rich people make in movies: if he can live for a year without relying on his wealth or connections, a doctor who snubbed him will shake his hand and apologize. And if he can't make it, he'll donate 50 grand to the doctor's clinic. I suspect he's going to learn about what's really important in life.

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

March In Review

Whoa. There goes another month. Still no job. Just as in Feb., I did have one on-site interview, this time in Madison.  I could become Madison Dan!  But, just as in Feb., nothing has come of it.

There was a bonus "heavy game day" this month. Usually it's only the even months.  This time it was "Angola", where each player represents a faction in the Angolan civil war in the mid-1970s and one pair of players plays against the other.  Believe it or not, it's actually interesting to play, even if you're one of the few who has no dog in this fight. Or someone who couldn't really say who won this war. It is long, though.  We called it quits after 8 hours or so, when it was pretty clear which side was going to win.

At "regular game day", I found myself in a couple of time killing games ("To Court The King" -- again -- and "Easy Come, Easy Go"), a simple game that the whole family could play ("Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers"), and a couple of games that are fun and interesting ("Power Grid" and "Amun-Re").

And there was still time for some movies, as shown below.  I finally plopped in the second movie in the "Planet Of The Apes" box set -- the only Blu-Ray movies I own.  There were several post-apocalyptic-nightmare movies I'd never even heard of before, but also one you hear about every once in a while that I'd never seen: "A Boy And His Dog", notable for being one of Don Johnson's earliest movies.  He was 25 when it came out. He communicates telepathically with his dog, which is the brains of their partnership, as they wander the wasteland looking for food and, well, women. Kind of a freaky, far-out, low-budget 1970s flick.  Finally, I was really fascinated by "District 9".  It was so easy to identify with the "hero", who definitely did not come from central casting's hero catalog. Having the aliens be a bunch of dim-witted thugs -- with a single genius scientist among them -- seemed kind of Sleestakian to me.  If I may say so.

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| 2011-03-02 - King Solomon's Mines (1950)             |
| 2011-03-03 - Jennifer's Body (2009)                  |
| 2011-03-04 - Adventures Of Robin Hood, The (1938)    |
| 2011-03-04 - Da Vinci Code, The (2006)               |
| 2011-03-06 - Teen Wolf (1985)                        |
| 2011-03-06 - Star Is Born, A (1954)                  |
| 2011-03-10 - Secret Of My Success, The (1987)        |
| 2011-03-11 - Stranger Than Fiction (2006)            |
| 2011-03-13 - I'm No Angel (1933)                     |
| 2011-03-14 - Ghost Rider (2007)                      |
| 2011-03-15 - Five (1951)                             |
| 2011-03-18 - Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)   |
| 2011-03-19 - Losers, The (2010)                      |
| 2011-03-20 - Phase IV (1974)                         |
| 2011-03-20 - Grass Is Greener, The (1960)            |
| 2011-03-21 - Last Night (1998)                       |
| 2011-03-22 - 9 (2009)                                |
| 2011-03-23 - Boy And His Dog, A (1975)               |
| 2011-03-24 - Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010)      |
| 2011-03-25 - Noah, The (1975)                        |
| 2011-03-25 - District 9 (2009)                       |
| 2011-03-26 - Domino (2005)                           |
| 2011-03-27 - Penny Serenade (1941)                   |
| 2011-03-27 - Charlie's Angels:  Full Throttle (2003) |
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Oh, and did I have a gallbladder attack near the end of the month? I'm not sure if there's any way to prove it, although at least one GI seemed adamant.  Great Caesar's Ghost! The jury's still out. I'd like to see what doctors who have known me for more than a day have to say about it.

Cary Grant Project

Today's entry is a pretty domestic-related film: "Penny Serenade". It's all about Cary Grant and Irene Dunne's marital woes and depressing life, centered around their hope of having a child. This one's got a couple of themes familiar from other lesser-known Cary Grant movies: divorce and adoption. Hmm. All 3 of his movies with Irene Dunne involved some kind of marital problems. But this one's got depression and despair sprinkled liberally throughout.

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. "My Favorite Wife", 1940, also starring Irene Dunne
11. "Father Goose", 1964, also starring Leslie Caron
12. "Indiscreet", 1958, also starring Ingrid Bergman
13. "Suspicion", 1941, also starring Joan Fontaine
14. "The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer", 1947, also starring Myrna Loy
15. "An Affair To Remember", 1957, also starring Deborah Kerr
16. "To Catch A Thief", 1955, also starring Grace Kelly
17. "The Talk Of The Town", 1942, also starring Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman
18. "That Touch Of Mink", 1962, also starring Doris Day and Gig Young
19. "Operation Petticoat", 1959, also starring Tony Curtis
20. "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944, also starring Raymond Massey
21. "The Bishop's Wife", 1947, also starring Loretta Young and David Niven
22. "Monkey Business", 1952, also starring Ginger Rogers
23. "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House", 1948, also starring Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas
24. "Walk Don't Run", 1966
25. "Destination Tokyo", 1943, also starring John Garfield
26. "Only Angels Have Wings", 1939, also starring Jean Arthur
27. "I Was A Male War Bride", 1949, also starring Ann Sheridan
28. "Once Upon A Honeymoon", 1942, also starring Ginger Rogers
29. "In Name Only", 1939, also starring Carole Lombard
30. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
31. "The Grass Is Greener", 1960, also starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
32. "Kiss Them For Me", 1957, also starring Jayne Mansfield, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer
    
33. "Penny Serenade", 1941, also starring Irene Dunne
34. "Night And Day", 1946, also starring Alexis Smith
35. "The Howards Of Virginia", 1940, also starring Martha Scott
36. "Room For One More", 1952, also starring Betsy Drake
37. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
38. "I'm No Angel", 1933, also starring Mae West
39. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
40. "None But The Lonely Heart", 1944, also starring Ethel Barrymore
41. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
42. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren

Cary Grant Project

Here's a Cary Grant movie in which he doesn't play a mid-Atlantic American WASP: "The Grass Is Greener", from the twilight part of his acting career. He's the typical titled English gentlemen, with land and a name, but so little money that his house and grounds are open to tourists. And his wife grows and sells mushrooms. Mushrooms!  It's about marital infidelity -- in a stuffy British way; along with some contrast of the differences between Americans and Englishmen.  Cary Grant's wife's wandering eye is locked onto an American millionaire, Robert Mitchum.

The Cary Grant Project now has a completed decade! The 1960s. Of course, it is Cary Grant's least active decade -- only half a dozen movies -- but you gotta start somewhere.

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