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Mr Lucky *** (1943, Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2341

The 1943 comedy film Mr Lucky stars Cary Grant, who is not terribly lucky with the script here, but he takes everything this movie throws at him in his stride.  ‘You call that purling? You […]

Mar, 31

None But the Lonely Heart *** (1944, Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt, George Coulouris, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 2340

Screen-writer/director Clifford Odets’s earnest and moody 1944 melodrama None But the Lonely Heart provides Cary Grant with one of his only two Best Actor Oscar nominations in his long and illustrious career. In this amusing curiosity based […]

Mar, 31

Penny Serenade **** (1941, Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Ann Doran, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 2339

Producer-director George Stevens’s 1941 romantic drama again teams Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, both seen at their best in this delicious heart-string tugger. It is the third of three movies pairing the duo. Grant and […]

Mar, 31

Monkey Business ***** (1952, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 2157

The brilliant 1952 screwball comedy Monkey Business stars Cary Grant as an absent-minded Professor developing an elixir of youth. Marilyn Monroe emerges gracefully from funny jokes at her expense – ’anyone can type’, ‘half child […]

Feb, 04

The Grass Is Greener *** (1960, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 1455

Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1960 release is a stagey but pleasing and enjoyable, old-style sub-Noel Coward drawing-room comedy of marital infidelity along the lines of Private Lives as Cary Grant’s marriage to Deborah Kerr is threatened by Jean Simmons […]

Jul, 20

Alice in Wonderland **** (1933, Cary Grant, W C Fields, Gary Cooper, Charlotte Henry) – Classic Movie Review 1418

‘I’ve often seen a cat without a grin – but a grin without a cat!’ – Alice. Three cheers for director Norman Z McLeod’s all-star, high-budget classic 1933 movie version of the two Lewis Carroll […]

Jul, 12

Once Upon a Honeymoon *** (1942, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Albert Dekker, Harry Shannon, Albert Bassermann, Ferike Boros, Hans Conried) – Classic Movie Review 1,309

Leo McCarey’s 1942 wartime comedy drama film Once Upon a Honeymoon stars Ginger Rogers as a showgirl who gets married to an Austrian Baron (Walter Slezak). Cary Grant also stars as a wireless personality who […]

Jun, 08

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