Posted on 01/18/2008 6:17:50 AM PST by Timeout
A little levity and a pleasant break from all the primary politics.
A beautiful tribute to a man's man. No metrosexuals here.
Enjoy.
He’s dead, Jim........
The old actors really paid their dues, and most of them could sing, dance, do comedy and drama. What a difference from the one-dimensional actors of today.
What made Grant excel was his elegance even while doing pratfalls. A glorious actor.
I heard he went both ways....mans man indeed.
You’ve been listening to too much gay propaganda.
“I heard he went both ways....mans man indeed.”
Chevy Chase thought so too and Cary Grant got pretty upset.
One of my favorite movies: Arsenic and Old Lace. Cary Grant, Raymond Massey as his homicidal brother Jonathan, Peter Lorre... At one point he is in the room with his older brother, who he hasn’t seen in years. He stamps on Jonathan’s foot hard, and there’s no indication Jonathan felt it. He pokes the leg with a fork, and Jonathan keep droning on...
Cary Grant with wife and daughter...
One fine looking man!
Cary Grant with Audrey Hepburn...
Perhaps the most perfect movie ever made.
I can watch it over and over...
Always respect Bogart as well for the same reasons.
Not true.
Notorious, one of my favorites.
I agree!
Wrong type of hope..
An Affair to Remember. One of my favorites.
'Notorious' had a marathon, prolonged kissing scene that circumvented the 'three-second' censor's restrictions.
The old actors really paid their dues, and most of them could sing, dance, do comedy and drama. What a difference from the one-dimensional actors of today.
Was watching Bono with Pavarotti on You-Tube, almost comedy/
I to agree with you, the old actors were the best and, TCM is all I now watch on TV
During the late thirties and early forties, Grant had an incredible string of great films. These include Only Angels Have Wings, Bringing Up Baby, Talk of the Town, Holiday, The Awful Truth, Gunga Din, Topper, The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic & Old Lace, Suspicion, His Girl Friday, and Notorious. All those films in about a six or seven year period.
He got a little bogged down in some cliche romantic comedies in subsequent years, but still found time for classics such as It Takes a Thief, North by Northwest, and Charade.
One of the true legends of Hollywood’s Golden Age!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Grant
When comedian Chevy Chase joked about Grant being gay in a television interview with Tom Snyder in 1980 (”Oh, what a gal!”) Grant sued him for slander; they settled out of court
How old is his wife there? 22?
Ah...55'ers rule too! (1955)
Chevy Chase thought so too
Chevy Chase,what a liberal scumbag and, a bottom feeder!!!!
BTW, Grant's real name was Archibald Leach. Man, was that ever a name guaranteed to be changed by the studio bosses! In Grant's comedy, His Girl Friday, he plays a big city newspaper editor. In a verbal showdown with some city officials, he brags about how powerful his paper is and how he can use it to run people out of town. He names "Archibald Leach" as an example of someone he's done that to. LOL!
Wow. Costner could be mistaken for Cary’s son in that photo. He’s great. But he’ll never match Cary’s rapier wit. That man could tear one to pieces with just the twitch of the lip.
An Affair to Remember...
GOD, we’re old! My wife can barely stand a lot of the stuff on TCM that I love, and the kids - fuggedaboudit.
Colonel, USAFR
I wonder if Castro sent him a card?
“Chevy Chase,what a liberal scumbag and, a bottom feeder!!!!”
I hear ya! I used to really like him and then like most angry libs, he opened his mouth. I read a book a while back about the history of SNL, and Chevy didn’t have too many friends there either. I think he just hates everybody.
The homo rumors began when Grant and Randolph Scott (the western film star) bought a beach house together. Even though they used it to pick up girls, gay rumors began to be heard. As a joke, they posed for some photos at the beach house having breakfast together, wearing their bathrobes, etc., but that sort of backfired when the photos got printed and were treated as legitimate. The rumors persisted throughout Grant’s life, but both he and Scott, and their families have emphatically denied them and there appears to be nothing but unsubstantiated rumors to support the claim that Grant was a girly man.
And .. Holiday
Or.... The Philadelphia Story.
hmmm, maybe I have a Hepburn thing ;-)
Btw, does it mention that he pursued Sophia Loren and that she was almost afraid of him because of his persistence?
Grant went bonkers over Loren when making HOUSEBOAT... She married Carlo Ponti just to stop Grant hounding her.
what does any of it have to do with FR and conservatism.
this fluff piece has little or no business here.
I will wait for John Wayne’s birthday to read an appropriate birthday send off.
Me too. CASABLANCA was on last night....
My favorite, too. Also Indiscreet, Night & Day (loved it because I love Cole Porter), The Bishop’s Wife, and heck, I even liked him in Father Goose!
Goody Two Shoes is going to marry the Filthy Beast?
“The old actors really paid their dues, and most of them could sing, dance, do comedy and drama. What a difference from the one-dimensional actors of today.”
That point is spot on. They had more talent, style and class in their little finger than today’s stars have in their whole bodies. Being part of the greatest generation they also, regardless of their political leanings, had a level of patriotism that even the most conservative of us would be proud of. During the war many put their careers on hold so they could serve the cause of freedom, some of them like Glenn Miller and Carole Lombard loosing their lives while on tour supporting the troops or raising fund raising.
They will never be forgotten and will always be a part of my film library.
And you believe Wikipedia?
NO...(not most of the time anyway....I take everything Wikipedia with a grain of salt.)
I posted the WHOLE section in Wikipedia because PREACHER posted a very truncated version. I was answering PREACHER, not you.
During its making Cary Grant fell in love with her and wooed have with aggression! (At that time he had a girlfriend in tow but that did not diminish his passion for Sophia!)
Grand was a suave, polished and fashionable star exuding charm and perhaps he impressed her. However she was already in love with Carlo Ponti and married him during the same year and had to reject the advances of the Hollywood star.
Obviously never one to take a no for an answer Grant pursued her across two continents and also proposed marriage. But she rejected him.
http://sify.com/movies/hollywood/fullstory.php?id=13256818
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