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09/15/2008: "Cary Grant"

A jolly old divorce comedy -- from the '30s! -- is today's entry in the Cary Grant Project. In "The Awful Truth", Cary Grant and Irene Dunne (in the first of 3 movies together) experience a comical, fast-paced 3 months waiting for their divorce to be finalized. She latches on to Ralph Bellamy (in the first of two movies he appeared in with Cary Grant). while he finds himself with an heiress. And they both spend a great amount of energy playing with their shared-custody dog. I'm pretty sure this will go into the top 5 when I update the rankings after 4 more shows.

1. "North By Northwest", 1959, also starring Eva Marie Saint and James Mason
   
2. "Bringing Up Baby", 1938, also starring Katharine Hepburn
   
3. "The Philadelphia Story", 1940, also starring Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart
   
4. "Notorious", 1946, also starring Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains
   
5. "People Will Talk", 1951, also starring Hume Cronyn
   
6. "Houseboat", 1958, also starring Sophia Loren
   
7. "Father Goose", 1964, also starring Leslie Caron
   
8. "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944, also starring Raymond Massey
   
9. "Indiscreet", 1958, also starring Ingrid Bergman
   
10. "Operation Petticoat", 1959, also starring Tony Curtis
    
11. "Monkey Business", 1952, also starring Ginger Rogers
    
12. "I Was A Male War Bride", 1949, also starring Ann Sheridan
    
13. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
    
14. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
    
15. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren