<p>Well not * this* summer.
I rarely find anything I love in the theatre- but last night I got H to watch * His Girl Friday* with me- which I hadn’t seen before-
We still have to watch the ending- cause H fell asleep ( he has to get up at 4am).
Starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.
It originally was a radio play ( which makes sense- it reads like a play).
Great dialogue- if a bit over the top.
Cary Grant sounds like Tony Curtis in * Some like it Hot*
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<p>I am also renting * Crash* which I saw when it came out with my younger daughter when we were visiting her sister in Portland.</p>
<p>Interesting place to see it- Portland is the whitest city in the country & younger D was attending an inner city high school in Seattle at the time.</p>
<p>I like Ebert’s review & I think Matt Dillion is one of our most underrated actors, although the ensemble cast is very strong- Howards performance was so good that I saw a movie I probably wouldn’t have seen otherwise * Hustle & Flow*- that I liked so much I bought the soundtrack!</p>
<p>;) I know he was impersonating him, but generally an impersonator exagerates the characteristic- and Grant didn’t quite have such a strong intonation in his later movies.</p>
<p>That’s because he’d been in the US longer and had more time to shed his Cockney accent. His real name was Archibald Leach (and points to whoever can make another movie connection out of that.)</p>
<p>‘His Girl Friday’ originally originally was ‘The Front Page’ on Broadway and later under that name as an early-30s movie. ‘His Girl Friday’ made it a love story - in the original version, both leads were male and the Cary Grant part was played by Adolphe Menjou - yuck.</p>
<p>If you loved this one, you’d probably also love ‘My Man Godfrey’ with Carole Lombard and William Powell, ‘Bringing Up Baby’ with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, and so many others - I especially like ‘Libeled Lady’ with Powell, Myrna Loy, and Jean Harlow.</p>
<p>I’d happily spend the summer watching old movies - don’t usually do the summer blockbusters anymore, though I do plan to see ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘Ironman 2.’ Robert Downey Jr. is an AMAZING actor and I’m just realizing that I have a lot of his films to catch up on! :)</p>
<p>Darn - Nrdsb4 beat me to it! Cary Grant also used the name in a line from ‘His Girl Friday’: “The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat.”</p>
<p>Can I get a bonus point for that?</p>
<p>ek - a movie I like that reminds me of ‘Crash’ is ‘Traffic.’ The British television version is supposed to be better than the US film - something else for me to look for on DVD. And I’ve never seen any of the ‘Prime Suspect’ TV series (also British) starring Helen Mirren - so my list for the summer is filling up!</p>
<p>I love My Man Godfrey! I need to add this to the list of movies to show my D’s this summer.
One summer when the girls were younger we did some Hitchcock movies that were suspenseful (not Psycho). We watched Rear Window, The Birds, North by Northwest and To Catch a Theif. Their favorite was Rear Window.</p>
<p>H and I watched High Society last week with Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. I like the original of this one better, The Philadelphia Story with Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart and Cary Grant.</p>
<p>My younger D is a crazy Audrey Hepburn fan. She has many of her movies and during the summer loves to watch her favorites.</p>
<p>We also did movies from the 80’s and the “brat pack” one summer and the girls got hooked on St Elmo’s Fire and Sixteen Candles.</p>
<p>This is the last summer before oldest D goes away to college. I need to think of a good theme for our summer movies this year. I welcome all your suggestions!</p>
<p>Yippee!! LOL, I’ve never won anything before!</p>
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<p>I would like to take this opportunity to share this very prestigious award with my CC board colleague frazzled1. Thank you. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>This summer, before S leaves for first year of college, he’'s going with me to see Toy Story 3…
In it, Andy leaves for college & Woody, Buzz Lightyear & the rest of the toys go to a day care center…
We still have S’s Woody & Buzz–it seems like just yesterday that we took a very young S to see TS 1 in the theater, bought all the toys, and had to eat at McDonalds a lot to get Woody & Buzz in the Happy Meals…</p>
<p>frazzled, both Traffik (the British version is with a ‘k’) and Prime Suspect are, as the British say, brilliant. Definitely worth renting!</p>
<p>We’ve spent many, many hours giving our kids a film education. D soaked it all up, while S is very dubious about anything made before 1980. We’re going to work on him more this summer before he goes off to college. You can’t be an educated person without having seen Dr. Strangelove!</p>
<p>Thanks for the pick-up on “Traffik,” Booklady - I’ll be hunting around for it. I’d also like to find the British version of “State of Play,” with Bill Nighy, though I really enjoyed the Russell Crowe film last year.</p>
<p>“Dr. Strangelove” freaked my kids out - they were amazed at how sophisticated black humor was in the olden times. They love Hitchcock movies, especially “Vertigo” and “Rear Window.” showmom858 mentioned some great Hitchcock films above. But I think my favorite might be “Notorious” - Cary Grant’s best dramatic performance. But wait - I really do like “Vertigo” better because of Jimmy Stewart’s performance. Do I? Well, I’m not gonna figure it out tonight.</p>
<p>Not much is more fun than having your kids love your favorite movies.</p>
<p>I’m watching “Grand Prix” tonight. Maurice Jarre, who died just last year, composed the sound track. Magnificent.
Other great Maurice Jarre sound tracks and great movies to boot…“Is Paris Burning?”, “Dr Zhivago”“The Train”, “Laurence of Arabia” and “Isadora”. So prolific…over 150 films.
“Is Paris Burning?”(1966) and “The Train”(1964) are both neglected films and I would encourage anyone to rent them.
I am looking forward to Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood” this summer. Ridley and Russel are two of my guilty pleasures.</p>
<p>By the way…you can watch “The Train” on hulu for free!</p>
<p>I very rarely buy DVD’s, but I did splurge on a copy of one of my favorite movies. [Jean</a> Negulesco](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624535/]Jean”>Jean Negulesco - IMDb) “The Best of Everything” (1959). He was an interesting director, especially of pot boiler romances revolving around multiple story lines. “Womans World”, “How to Marry a Millionaire” and “Three Coins in a Fountain” are all fun. Especially if you enjoy AMC’s “Mad Men”, do watch “The Best of Everything” and see where the MM art director snatched the offices of Sterling Cooper.
****Mad Men is back in July. WOOO HOOO</p>
<p>Thanks for the reminder about “The Best of Everything.” “How to Marry a Millionaire” is a real favorite of mine - I would have dumped Cameron Mitchell for William Powell in a New York minute.</p>
<p>For a less depressing look at the double standard of the early 60s than you get in “TBOE,” I love “Sunday in New York” with Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor, and Cliff Robertson. It’s not on DVD yet, so you have to be lucky to catch it on TCM. Perfect leads, adorable clothes, great theme song sung by Mel Torme, and just so funny. Watched it with my parents when I was a teen - the first time I ever saw my mom laugh till she cried.</p>
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I swear we were separated at birth. Although I refuse to feel guilty about Russell.</p>
They love Hitchcock movies, especially “Vertigo” and “Rear Window.” showmom858 mentioned some great Hitchcock films above. But I think my favorite might be “Notorious” - Cary Grant’s best dramatic performance. But wait - I really do like “Vertigo” better because of Jimmy Stewart’s performance. Do I? Well, I’m not gonna figure it out tonight.</p>