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12/28/2008: "Cary Grant"

In "Topper", a couple of wild, wealthy young party people try to help a fusty, middle-aged banker learn to live. It has its moments of fun, but mostly it just seems boring. Maybe 70 years ago it was amazing to see people disappear and reappear and to show things that an invisible person is doing, like changing a tire. Whoa, momma, how is that tire being changed by itself! And maybe that was enough to make it a great flick.

1. "North By Northwest", 1959, also starring Eva Marie Saint and James Mason
   
2. "Bringing Up Baby", 1938, also starring Katharine Hepburn
   
3. "The Awful Truth", 1937, also starring Irene Dunne
   
4. "Charade", 1963, also starring Audrey Hepburn
   
5. "The Philadelphia Story", 1940, also starring Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart
   
6. "Notorious", 1946, also starring Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains
   
7. "People Will Talk", 1951, also starring Hume Cronyn
   
8. "Houseboat", 1958, also starring Sophia Loren
   
9. "My Favorite Wife", 1940, also starring Irene Dunne
   
10. "Father Goose", 1964, also starring Leslie Caron
    
11. "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944, also starring Raymond Massey
    
12. "Indiscreet", 1958, also starring Ingrid Bergman
    
13. "The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer", 1947, also starring Myrna Loy
    
14. "Operation Petticoat", 1959, also starring Tony Curtis
    
15. "Monkey Business", 1952, also starring Ginger Rogers
    
16. "Walk Don't Run", 1966
    
17. "I Was A Male War Bride", 1949, also starring Ann Sheridan
    
18. "Once Upon A Honeymoon", 1942, also starring Ginger Rogers
    
19. "In Name Only", 1939, also starring Carole Lombard
    
20. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
    
21. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
    
22. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
    
23. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
    
24. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren