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07/19/2008: "Cary Grant"

Back to more commonly known Cary Grant movies. I would put "I Was A Male War Bride" in the mildly amusing category. It was directed by Howard Hawks, but didn't have anything close to the zippy, crackling dialogue of "His Girl Friday". Cary Grant's a French officer, but makes no attempt at any kind of accent. I can't imagine that happening today. Maybe in the '40s, it was enough that he didn't sound American. Or maybe, he's Cary Grant, so just let him be Cary Grant. Basically, he hates this female American officer, which in the movies means they love each other, and they're quickly married. But the military has all these regulations that address the issue of officers and their spouses -- with the assumption that the spouse is a woman -- which causes no end of problems for the two of them trying to get out of France and back to America.

As of today, my Cary Grant Project total is at four:
1. "The Philadelphia Story", 1940, also starring Katharine Hepburn & James Stewart
2. "North By Northwest", 1959, also starring Eva Marie Saint & James Mason
3. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren
4. "I Was A Male War Bride", 1949, also starring Ann Sheridan