Silver Screen Icons: Cary Grant

My Favorite Wife (1940)

Hilarious screwball turnaround of Tennyson’s poem "Enoch Arden" stars Cary Grant as Nick Arden, a lawyer who has his wife Ellen (Irene Dunne) declared legally dead seven years after she was lost at sea. Nick marries the lovely Bianca (Gail Patrick) but gets the surprise of his life when Ellen--who had been shipwrecked with the handsome Stephen (Randolph Scott)--shows up on his honeymoon, forcing him to choose between two wives. With Ann Shoemaker, Scotty Beckett. 88 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Night And Day (1946)

The life and career of composer and songwriter Cole Porter are saluted in this Movies Unlimited favorite directed by Michael Curtiz. Cary Grant plays Porter, following him from his privileged youth in Indiana to his days at Yale, his experiences in World War I, his stormy marriage, and his amazing musical accomplishments. Alexis Smith, Jane Wyman co-star, with Monty Woolley and Mary Martin as themselves. Score includes "You're the Top," "Don't Fence Me In," ""Begin the Beguine," the title tune, and more. 128 min. C/Rtg: NR

The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Philandering artist Richard Nugent (Cary Grant) and high school cutie Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) are the title characters. After the easily captivated Susan develops a romantic infatuation with Richard, Susan’s older, wiser sister (and judge!) Margaret (Myrna Loy) steps in, with the law behind her! Margaret orders Richard to date her teenage sister in order to end her crush on him...and the screwball romantic sparks fly from there. With Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Johnny Sands. 95 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Cary Grant and Myrna Loy's third screen pairing casts them as big-city adman Jim Blandings and his wife Muriel, who share a tiny apartment with their two daughters in Manhattan. Deciding to move to the suburbs of Connecticut, the family’s idyllic dreams turn into renovation nightmares after they pour their money into a 200-year-old "fix-'er-upper," and meet with one construction calamity after another. Gag-filled rib-tickler from Eric Hodgins’ novel co-stars Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Louise Beavers. 94 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; radio broadcasts; theatrical trailer; bonus shorts "Home Movies" (1940), "Musical Movieland" (1944), "Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra" (1946), "The Big Snooze" (1946), "Little 'Tinker" (1948), "The House of Tomorrow" (1949).