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09/23/2008: "Cary Grant"

The Cary Grant Project goes way back to 1933 tonight, for "She Done Him Wrong". This is the Mae West movie where she said, "Why don't you come up some time and see me?" Cary Grant's role was pretty small -- in those days, he was doing half a dozen pictures a year -- but he was still the top-billed male. It's mostly about Mae West singing and tossing one-liners around and generally acting like a lady who indulges her desires. Perhaps one of the few time the leading lady was older than Cary Grant? (By 10 years in this case.)

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