But who’s this nine-year-old Archie Leach of Bristol, England, a child of working-class poverty and a traumatic home life? How did Archie grow up to be Cary, “the man from dream city,” as a character calls him in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer?Ī lonely child weary of his parents’ battles, Archie at nine was astounded to come home from school one day to find his mother gone-forever. Or fifty years earlier, nonchalant in a formal tuxedo, laughing with Katharine Hepburn at a chic Hollywood soiree. We picture him at age eighty-two, impeccable in a cashmere sweater, lounging in his Beverly Hills garden.
Of course perfection takes hard work, even for the man who makes everything look easy and elegant. In this political year we celebrate the fun-loving intelligence and casual, stylish charm of Cary Grant, who critics, authors, and Clint Eastwood call “the best, most subtly brilliant actor in the cinema.” To put it simply, he’s comic perfection. With Charles Coburn and George Winslow, famous in the 1950s for his “foghorn voice.” In 35mm, 97 min. In the wacky way of screwball comedy, maybe indulging your inner savage is a sign of true love. Rogers gets her own turn at being an adolescent again, with the dangerously unruly anarchy of childhood soon to follow. When Grant, with the help of a laboratory chimpanzee, develops a rejuvenation drug and samples it, he suddenly gets a crew cut and a sports car and flirts with his secretary (Marilyn Monroe). The marriage of chemist Cary Grant to physicist Ginger Rogers is a dismal, rocky affair of boredom and smoldering resentments. Diamond, and Charles Lederer take America’s obsession with remaining youthful to delightfully absurd extremes. In this comic masterpiece, director Hawks and screenwriters Ben Hecht, I.A.L.
In 35mm, 109 min.Īugust 10: Monkey Business (Howard Hawks, 1952) With Margaret Hamilton ( The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch). All this is just too much for a sour, spiteful academic (Hume Cronyn) who launches an investigation of easygoing Professor Grant. And he thinks maybe he should marry one of his students, a suicidal pregnant woman (Jeanne Crain) who has no partner. Plus, it’s a romantic comedy! Grant is a non-traditional medical professor who believes that emotions effect physical health, whose best friends are a convicted murderer (Findlay Currie) and an atomic physicist (Walter Slezak) who plays with toy trains. Powered by Mankiewicz’s wise, witty, literate script and one of Grant’s best performances, People Will Talk celebrates non-conforming, quirky individuals who put their provocative ideas into practice. Digital restoration, 105 min.Īugust 3: People Will Talk (Joseph L. But the much-desired consummation of their marriage, and their entry into the United States, must wait for Grant to put on a dress and a wig and convince the world that he’s a woman. During World War II in occupied Germany, Catherine and French officer Henri Rochard (Grant) find each other obnoxious, presumptuous, even dangerous-so of course they fall in love and marry. In his roles Grant could suffer frustrations and humiliations hilariously, and a spirited, independent-minded Howard Hawks woman like Air Corps officer Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) can dish them out. July 27: I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks, 1949) With Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Paul Stewart. But Joe’s more than met his match as the women put him to work knitting with needles and yarn in a downtown window, where men walking by on the street can see him. He’ll charm War Relief society ladies, including delectable Laraine Day and her crew of elders, into letting him run a gambling operation at their charity ball. World War II is raging, but Joe has more immediate concerns: he needs more money to run his floating gambling casino, so he steals another man’s identity to avoid the draft and launches a fail-proof scheme. Lucky, Joe Aden’s (Grant) life follows a similar arc, rising from lower-class British obscurity to stellar American success-but on the shady side of the law. Comedy, romance, action, suspense-Grant handles it all with incomparable grace and a wry grin.Īrchie Leach of Bristol, England, rose from his humble, impoverished origins to become Cary Grant of Hollywood, “the man from dream city.” In Mr.
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Once again our summer series celebrates Cary Grant, witty, handsome, elegant gentleman, and superb actor.
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