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Cary Grant

"His Girl Friday" is the screwball comedy that all screwball comedies are compared against. Divorce is -- what, again? -- an underlying factor in this well-known Cary Grant movie. At the start, he learns that his ex-wife (Rosalind Russell), who's also a reporter for his newspaper, is getting remarried. And what follows is 90 minutes of madcap, quick-witted, fast-talking zaniness as he works to prevent the marriage and get the scoop on the big story of the day -- the impending execution of a mild-mannered middle-aged nobody. Pay attention, the dialogue is as fast and furious as any movie ever made.

This gets me up to 25 Cary Grant films. That still leaves almost 50 to go, but at this point, they're getting harder and harder to just stumble upon.

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. "His Girl Friday", 1940, also starring Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy
   
8. "People Will Talk", 1951, also starring Hume Cronyn
   
9. "Houseboat", 1958, also starring Sophia Loren
   
10. "My Favorite Wife", 1940, also starring Irene Dunne
    
11. "Father Goose", 1964, also starring Leslie Caron
    
12. "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944, also starring Raymond Massey
    
13. "Indiscreet", 1958, also starring Ingrid Bergman
    
14. "The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer", 1947, also starring Myrna Loy
    
15. "Operation Petticoat", 1959, also starring Tony Curtis
    
16. "Monkey Business", 1952, also starring Ginger Rogers
    
17. "Walk Don't Run", 1966
    
18. "I Was A Male War Bride", 1949, also starring Ann Sheridan
    
19. "Once Upon A Honeymoon", 1942, also starring Ginger Rogers
    
20. "In Name Only", 1939, also starring Carole Lombard
    
21. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
    
22. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
    
23. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
    
24. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
    
25. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren