Cary Grant's 46th full length feature film was None But The Lonely Heart, released today in 1944.
Cary Grant plays Ernie Mott, an embittered man who turns to a band of thieves in an attempt at getting a better life for himself and his mother, Ma Mott (Ethel Barrymore).
Grant asked that the film, based on Richard Llewellyn's novel, be made. Clifford Odets who directed the film also wrote the screenplay.
Cary Grant was nominated for the Academy Award's category for Best Actor. Ethel Barrymore won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
With Jane Wyatt.
"Cary Grant, as the good-for-nothing Ernie Mott, has a rare chance to burrow inside of a character and come out with something more than his usual charm and skillfully tuned comic touches."
- Hermine Rich Isaacs, Theatre Arts Magazine.
"Cary Grant...plays its far from Cary Grantish hero so attentively and sympathetically that I all but overlooked the fact that he is not well constituted for the role." - James Agee, The Nation.
With Ethel Barrymore and Barry Fitzgerald.
Cast:
Ernie Mott Cary Grant
Ma Mott Ethel Barrymore
Aggie Hunter Jane Wyatt
Ada June Duprez
Twite Barry Fitzgerald
Jim Mordinoy George Coulouris
Did Pettyjohn Roman Bohnen
Ile Weber Konstantin Shayne
Lew Tate Dan Duryea
Mrs. Tate Rosalind Ivan
Miss Tate Dierdre Vale
Ma Chalmers Eva Leonard Boyne
Ma Snowden Queenie Vassar
Millie Wilson Katherine Allen
Cash Joseph Vitale
Taz Morton Lowry
Knocker William Challee
Slush Skelton Knagg
Ma Saegiviss Virginia Farmer
Marjoriebanks Art Smith
Ike Lesser Milton Wallace
Sister Nurse Helen Thimig
Flo Renie Riano
Percy Marcel Dill
With June Duprez.
Lobby Cards:
"A Desolate Heart" in Spanish.
Produced and distributed by RKO Radio.
Running time: 113 minutes.
With Barry Fitzgerald.