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08/29/2008: "Cary Grant"

Continuing with the Cary Grant Project, tonight I saw "Arsenic And Old Lace", a community theater favorite. This is the one with a couple old ladies who kill lonely old gentlemen as an act of mercy. They've got 3 nephews: a psychopath, a guy who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, and the normal one played by Cary Grant. It's all kind of over-the-top and farcical, in a way that you'd expect of a movie based on a play. What I kept thinking throughout the show was how much Cary Grant's part seemed like a Jimmy Stewart role. Bully!

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
5. "Monkey Business", 1952, also starring Ginger Rogers
6. "Houseboat", 1958, also starring Sophia Loren
7. "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944, also starring Raymond Massey