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09/07/2008: "Cary Grant"

The next entry in the Cary Grant Project is "Operation Petticoat", more of a straight-up comedy, not a romantic comedy at all. Cary Grant's in charge of a submarine badly in need of repair at the start of WWII and Tony Curtis is a womanizing thief who's only in the Navy to get the uniform -- to help him move up in life by making himself attractive to the wealthier classes. Before people of my generation knew them as television stars, "Operation Petticoat" also boasts (in small doses) such future icons as Dick Sargent, Gavin MacLeod, and Marion Ross (if you concentrate and don't blink very often). And as you'd expect in 1959, this movie features the older, slightly befuddled and perturbed Cary Grant.

1. "North By Northwest", 1959, also starring Eva Marie Saint and James Mason
   
2. "The Philadelphia Story", 1940, also starring Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart
   
3. "Notorious", 1946, also starring Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains
   
4. "People Will Talk", 1951, also starring Hume Cronyn
   
5. "Houseboat", 1958, also starring Sophia Loren
   
6. "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944, also starring Raymond Massey
   
7. "Indiscreet", 1958, also starring Ingrid Bergman
   
8. "Monkey Business", 1952, also starring Ginger Rogers
   
9. "I Was A Male War Bride", 1949, also starring Ann Sheridan
   
10. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren