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Cary Grant: Screen
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The casting of Cary Grant as the legendary Cole Porter in the splendiferous but wafer-thin biopic NIGHT AND DAY (his first in Technicolor) is a mystery. Despite the fact that Grant is in nearly every scene of this fairly inaccurate, insubstantial and uncommonly uneventful film, the screenplay doesn't allow him the latitude to display any of his unique talents. Indeed, this is probably the only Grant film where it's best to ignore him completely and instead focus on those great songs and magnificent production numbers which fortunately crop up with great regularity, and are brilliantly orchestrated by the phenomenal Ray Heindorf.
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Being Cary Grant is such a gilded role, in fact, that all sorts of other people think they are Cary Grant, too. The most notable of these is Tony Curtis, who caricatures Grant in everything he does. He dresses like Grant, but with tighter pants; his IRT-and-crumpets accent is an attempt to sound like Grant; and he imitates Grant on the screen (Some Like It Hot}. When Curtis bought a Rolls-Royce, he gutsily made sure he got a better one than Cary's.
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Simply called “Cary Grant,” this 4-disc collector’s set should be called Cary Grant’s Tales of Romantic Dysfunction. Included in the collection are some of the last films the actor appeared in, before retiring in 1966 – Indiscreet (1958), Operation Petticoat (1959), The Grass is Greener (1960), and That Touch of Mink (1962). Each deals with the throes of romance and marriage, and could very well be an example of art imitating life. See, each was filmed by Grant’s own film companies, and while he was an irresistible leading man on-screen, Grant was known for his romantic troubles off-screen and his third marriage happened to dissolve the same year that Mink was released.
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Even in retirement... Cary Grant remained a star. Television reruns ofhis films and promotional appearances for Faberge kept him before the publiceye. And his youthful charm and worldly, fun- loving lifestyle seemed but anextension of his screen personality. As Kael observed, "He has lived up to his screen image, and then some."
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Only Angels Have Wings: Cary in a love triangle two of the silver screen's greatest stars, Jeanne Arthur (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) and Howard Hawk's discovery, Rita Hayworth. CG plays Geoff Carter, a macho American pilot leading a ragtag bunch of flyers to glory and financial security in the mountains of South America. Carter is a tough guy who refuses to get burned twice in the same place. He's gotta get the mail through and to hell with a bunch of flighty dames, ornery condors and fog. An adventure flick with a little singing, dancing and kissing thrown in for good measure.
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Cary Grant retired from the screen in 1966 to spend more time with his much adored daughter Jennifer. The business acumen he showed as a young actor, being one of the first to get percentages of his own films, was put to good use when following his retirement he chose to pursue other business interests such as Faberge Cosmetics and the MGM Grand Hotels.
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