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The pick for today's movie features classic movie era Republican superstars Gingers Rogers and Cary Grant in Academy Award-winning Republican director Leo McCarey's(who won Best Director Oscars for "Going My Way" and "The Awful Truth") most underrated film. Set on the eve of World War II, Grant plays a foreign correspondent trying to a rescue naive American golddigger(played by Miss Rogers) from her wealthy Austrian baron husband(played by Walter Slezak) who unbeknownst to Ginger is actually Hitler's frontman for nations falling to Nazi occupation. A fascinating historical time capsule that combines 1930s-early 1940s style screwball comedy with a WWII-era international intrigue adventure, OUAH was Grant's 10th highest grossing box office hit(figures adjusted for inflation of course). Ginger has as much onscreen chemistry with Grant as she did with Fred Astaire while Grant has as much with her as he did with Irene Dunne and with Audrey Hepburn. I think this is my 2nd favorite black and white Grant picture after "Only Angels Have Wings". Enjoy!