Cary Grant

Blake Edwards: Director of the Pink Panther movies – and Julie Andrews’ husband for more than four decades – was at his best handling polished comedies and a couple of dead serious dramas. Blake Edwards movies: Best known for slapstick fare, but at his best…

Raymond Massey. Raymond Massey movies: From Lincoln to Boris Karloff Though hardly remembered today, the Toronto-born Raymond Massey was a top supporting player – and sometime lead – in both British and American movies from the early ’30s all the way to the early ’60s.…

Cary Grant in ‘I Was a Male War Bride’: Classic gender-bending comedy. Cary Grant films on TCM: Gender-bending comedy classic ‘I Was a Male War Bride,’ reactionary adventure flick ‘Gunga Din’ More Cary Grant films will be aired tonight, Dec. 15, ’14, as Turner Classic…

Cary Grant movies: The new and improved Archibald Leach. Cary Grant movies: ‘An Affair to Remember’ does sentimental justice to its title Cary Grant excelled at playing Cary Grant. This evening, Dec. 8, fans of the charming, sophisticated, debonair actor – not to be confused…

Anna Magnani in Rome, Open City, known in the U.S. as Open City. ‘Rome, Open City’ returns: 4K digital restoration of Roberto Rossellini masterpiece at London’s BFI Southbank A restored digital print of Roberto Rossellini’s best-known film, Rome, Open City / Roma, città aperta is…

Cary Grant and Randolph Scott having some pool fun. Cary Grant and Randolph Scott marriages (See previous post: “Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay Lovers?“) The English-born Cary Grant was married five times: Charles Chaplin’s City Lights leading lady Virginia Cherrill (1934-1935), Woolworth heiress Barbara…

Randolph Scott and Cary Grant ca. 1933: Gay lovers? Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay lovers or good friends and roommates? (See previous post: “Randolph Scott Movies: From Westerns to Cary Grant Comedy.”) Now, one suggestion: Do not believe those rumors about Randolph Scott and…

Neva Patterson ca. mid-1950s. Stage, television and film actress Neva Patterson is best remembered for playing Cary Grant’s elegant ex-fiancée-to-be in Leo McCarey’s 1957 romance classic An Affair to Remember. Later in life, Patterson was seen in a key role in the sci-fi TV miniseries…

Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in The Talk of the Town (top); Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year (bottom). Actor Cary Grant collaborated with director George Stevens on three films: the 1939 pro-colonialism adventure Gunga Din; the 1941 family melodrama Penny…

White couple, black baby: Sophie Okonedo as black daughter of white parents in Skin Winner of four audience awards, including at the AFI Dallas and Santa Barbara film festivals, Skin tells the factually inspired (and quite curious) story of Sandra Laing (Hotel Rwanda‘s 2005 Academy…

Cary Grant in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House with Myrna Loy (top); Cary Grant, Gail Patrick, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott in My Favorite Wife Cary Grant will have his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Sunday, Aug. 9. Turner Classic Movies will not present…

Gunga Din movie: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. George Stevens’ proudly “politically incorrect” – and for the most part much admired – action-adventure tale Gunga Din will have a special screening on Friday, June 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of…

Amateur home movies’ stars: Roddy McDowall during the filming of George Stevens’ The Greatest Story Ever Told (top); Norma Shearer on the set of Romeo and Juliet (bottom). Amateur home movies featuring Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, and other Hollywood celebrities, along…

Blonde Venus is my favorite of the Marlene Dietrich-Josef von Sternberg collaborations. This 1932 melodrama has it all. The film begins with the ever-dull and wooden Herbert Marshall as an American soldier in Germany during World War I. At one point, he and his troops…

Last Remaining Seats’North by Northwest’ & ‘Roman Holiday’ The Los Angeles Conservancy (website) will present the 21st Annual Last Remaining Seats film series every Wednesday at 8 p.m. from May 23-June 27. The series is held in the Los Angeles area’s historic movie palaces –…

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou with Anjelica Huston and Bill Murray. Wes Anderson’s mix of maritime adventure, existential drama, and Jacques Cousteau parody, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is torpedoed by a meandering screenplay and an uninspired central performance. Anderson and Noah Baumbach…