Cary Grant (1904—1986)
Does the dismal state of the economy got you down? Are you sick of the wretched OWS mob? Fed up with, well, everything?
We know how you feel.
Time for a break. Time to let the old brain cells recharge with, what else, a movie.
Here’s The Amazing Adventure, an obscure Cary Grant film produced in the UK about the value of money when set against true love. It’s not a typical Cary Grant movie, but nevertheless pretty interesting. Mary Brian costars, and you can see why she was considered the sweetest girl in Hollywood.
Enjoy!
Mary Brian (1906—2002)
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Robert:
Re Mr. Lucky
I understand your viewpoint relative to None But The Lonely Heart. With Lucky you see the Milton Holmes sensibility, something similar to Johnny O’Clcok, but played and directed at a different pitch.
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Hmmm, it’s tempting to spend the first hour of my work day watching a Cary Grant movie. I do love his on-screen demeanor although his personal life was a chaotic mess! Claims of physical and emotional abuse from former wives. LSD use. Homosexual or bisexual tendencies — especially in the person of Randolph Scott. Marrying for money — his marriage to second wife, Barara Hutton, earned them the unkind nickname “Cash and Cary”. In typical Cary Grant fashion his rebuttal (to the charges he married her for her money) was “I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was evert one of them”. Third wife, Betsy Drake, responded to the rumors of him being gar by saying “Why would I believe that Cary was homosexual when we were busy *shagging*” I’ll leave it to you to deduce what word she used instead of “shagging”…
Yes, I could spend the first hour of work watching a Cary Grant movie, but I suspect my boss would rather I get my work done! Maybe later…
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Prophet Joe:
In recent years there has grown an industry of film historians who identify most every major Hollywood star as homosexual or bisexual. Cary Grant has been a plum target, so has Clark Gable, Rudolph Valentino, Erroll Flynn, the list is endless. These men collectively slept with hundreds upon hundreds of women, not to mention entering into and escaping multiple marriages. Not surprosingly the writers who make these charges are all, duh, homosexual.
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Cary Grant after Notorious played more or less exclusively what we now know as Cary Grant parts. Prior to that time, he did Sylvia Scarlett, Gunga Din, None But The Lonely Heart, Mr. Lucky and Suspicion, not straightforward Cary Grant parts. But, wildly adventurous and in Mr. Lucky and Sylvia Scarlett, flat out dangerous. In Notorious, an awful judgmental man, who happens to be the hero. One thing, Sylvia Scarlett excepted primarily because it pre-dates the concept, Cary Grant wins at the end, and always gets the girl. He’s not always so nice doing it. Final thought: In Mr. Lucky he crusheds Pauls Stewart’s face with his heel. Justified, sure, but brutal, sure again.
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Barry:
It is a testament to the power of the Cary Grant personae which we all have fixed in our collective minds that when screening one of his non-Cary Grant roles we grow uncomfortable and say to ourselves: “That’s not Cary Grant.” No one understood this better than Grant who, after perfecting his image, refused ever to deviate from the template.
I have to admit that I love his performance in Gunga Din, Suspicion and Notorious. And really hate, I mean loathe Mr. Lucky and None But the Lonely Heart, not so much for Grant’s performances, which are strong, but I just hate the films. Ironically, Grant said that None But the Lonley Heart was his favorite movie.
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Before I started to get a basic cinematic education (as supposed to Dr Avrech) I thought Grant was always cast in romantic leads – but to see him in the 30s –
I wish I could have seen him in one of his 1 man shows….I am sure he would have had a lot to say.
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Bill:
I have heard that the one-man shows were really amazing. Grant answered all questions with a mixture of charm, modesty and wit.
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