Ah...55'ers rule too! (1955)
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.
'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?
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