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Nancy Carroll got a cake to celebrate the birthdays of Randolph Scott and Cary Grant during the filming of William Seiter‘s HOT SATURDAY (1932). Scott’s and Grant’s birthdays were five days apart (different birth years).

#randolph scott #cary grant #nancy carroll

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARY GRANT ( jan 18. 1904 - nov. 29. 1986 ∞ )

As a philosopher once said, “You cannot judge the day until the night.” Since it is for me evening, or at least teatime, I can now look back and assess the day. It’s been a glorious adventure up to here — even the saddest parts — and I look forward to seeing the rest of the film. Just as I did in 1932 when I sat in that Paramount Studio office. I took up the pen and wrote for the first time “Cary Grant.” And that’s who, it seems, I am. Well, as some profound fellow said, “I’d be a nut to go through all that again, but I wouldn’t have missed it for anything.” - Cary Grant, 1963

#cary grant #Jennifer grant #the sweetest letter to his daughter

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“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.” “I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.” “My father used to say, ‘Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'” Remembering screen legend Cary Grant on his birthday… Born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18th, 1904 in Bristol, England Died on November 29th, 1986 (age 82) in Davenport, Iowa Portraits of Mr. Grant by George Hurrell, Ernest A. Bachrach, Eugene Robert Richee, and Ted Allan.

#cary grant #happy birthday #xx

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Happy Birthday, Cary Grant (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986)

#cary grant #happy birthday #xx

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Cary Grant as Jerry Warriner in The Awful Truth (1937) dir. Leo McCarey

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I know I’ve mentioned it before, but Cary Grant started out in showbiz as an acrobat in a vaudeville act. These bits of physical comedy he got to do in movies are just perfect little gems. I also love the moments of comic dancing he got to do in Sylvia Scarlett and Indiscreet.

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Cary Grant e Betsy Drake -”C'è posto per tutti” (Room for One More), 1952

#cary grant #betsy drake #room for one more

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Cary Grant, Rita Hayworth and Jean Arthur in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

#cary grant #jean arthur #rita hayworth #only angels have wings

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Greta Garbo in Mata Hari (1931) dir. George Fitzmaurice

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Silver Screen magazine, January 1940

#myrna loy #william powell #:’)

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Additional consideration for the Thin Man couple for this poll session? Because of the specific glass wear style they used in the movies, it was scouted by a bartender in the late 1980's to bring back a certain type of cocktail glass back into the mainstream. Now, it is referred to as Nick and Nora glasses 🥂 That is all, thank you.

Powell and Loy vs Martin and Lewis

#the thin man #william powell #myrna loy

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During the scene where James Stewart hiccups when drunk, you can see Cary Grant looking down and grinning. Since the hiccup wasn't scripted, Grant was on the verge of breaking out laughing and had to compose himself quickly. Stewart (apparently spontaneously) thought of hiccuping in the drunk scene, without telling Grant. When he began hiccuping, Grant turned to Stewart, saying, "Excuse me." Grant turned his head to stifle his laughter and said, "Nothing". The scene required only one take.

CARY GRANT and JAMES STEWART in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) | dir. George Cukor

#cary grant #james stewart #jimmy stewart

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An Affair to Remember (1957) — dir. Leo McCarey

#cary grant #deborah kerr

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never not crazy about this scene

#Cary grant #agree with you #this is it. the only good thing i have to thank the hays code for #ingrid bergman #notorious

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In a magazine interview, Cary told the interviewer that he had hoped, even prayed, he would never be called upon to repeat what the exhibitors chose to call his “big scene.”

“I had to strike a dog. Not a really harsh blow, you understand, but I had to shove that dog from me roughly and he could not understand why I had to do that to him. He was a superb dog, had been raised at the ‘Seeing Eye’ institution that trains dogs to guide the blind. I had him around me for weeks before production started so that we would become thoroughly acquainted, and so he would learn that I was not blind, but that at certain times I would pretend to be and he must lead me just as carefully as he would a sightless person. All this the dog soon understood. But when we started work, he never could understand why I had to strike out at him during that scene in a mountain cabin when I am supposed to go mad with rage because I cannot see. It made me feel so cheap and mean, for I knew the dog couldn’t understand. I hope I will never have to repeat that performance ever again.”

Silverscreen, May 1935

Clip from “Wings in the Dark” (1935)

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