Quote From Today... The Howards of Virginia (1940)

"Frozen, at that!"

With Paul Kelly.

The Howards of Virginia was Cary Grant's 37th full length feature film.

Captain Jabez Allen: Is that all!

Matt Howard: Aye. And they cost me the two dollars Norton sent me!

Captain Jabez Allen: Jehoshaphat's elbow! A dollar for a potato.

Matt Howard: Frozen, at that!

Quote From Today... Holiday (1938)

 "I don't call what I've been doing living."

With Katharine Hepburn.

Holiday was Cary Grant's 31st full length feature film.

Johnny Case: I don't call what I've been doing living.

Linda Seton: And what do you recommend for yourself, doctor?

Johnny Case: A holiday.

Linda Seton: For how long?

Johnny Case: As long as I need.

Linda Seton: You mean just to play?

Johnny Case: No. I've been working since I was 10. I want to find out why I'm working. It can't just be to pay bills and pile up more money. Even if you do, the government's going to take most of it.

Linda Seton: But what is the answer?

Johnny Case: I don't know. That's what I intend to find out. The world's changing out there. There are a lot of new, exciting ideas running around. Some may be right and some may be cockeyed but they're affecting all our lives. I want to know how I stand, where I fit in the picture, what it's all gonna mean to me. I can't find that out sitting behind some desk in an office, so as soon as I get enough money together, I'm going to knock off for a while.

On This Day... Father Goose (1964)

 Released today back in 1964, Father Goose was Cary Grant's 71st, and penultimate, full length feature film.

Summary:

On a South Sea island during WW2, Walter Eckland (Cary Grant) lives a quiet life. Everything changes when he's persuaded by the Allies to serve as lookout for enemy ships. 

As his main interest is drinking, Eckland proves bad at the job and is sent to another island to fetch his replacement....Only to find a stranded teacher, Catherine (Leslie Caron), and her pupils. After bringing the group back to his island, romantic sparks fly between Eckland and the schoolmistress.

Cast:

Cary Grant...Walter

Leslie Caron...Catherine

Trevor Howard...Houghton

Jack Goode...Stebbings

Sharyl Locke...Jenny

Pip Sparkes...Anne (as Pip Sparke)

Verina Greenlaw...Christine

Stephanie Berrington...Elizabeth

Jennifer Berrington...Harriet

Laurelle Felsette...Angelique

Nicole Felsette...Dominique

Did You Know?

Cary Grant plays a scruffy, whiskey-swilling beachcomber in this movie. He is considered to be cast against type for this role, quite antithetical to his suave, sophisticated, debonair on-screen persona. Even so, it does hark back to the light comedy roles from early in his career.

Production took about eight weeks in Hollywood at Universal Studios and about four weeks on location at a coconut plantation in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.

Frank's remark to Walter that the Japanese had taken Singapore that morning fixes the date the film opens as February 15, 1942. The official surrender, however, did not take place until 5:15 in the afternoon.

Quotes:

Commander Frank Houghton RAN: [after explaining the Coast-watching service] It's ary important work, Walter. Damned important. You'd might like to volunteer.

Walter Eckland: Oh, I'd love to, Frank! But, I've just signer on for another watching service: the "Watch Out for Walter Eckland" Service!

Lieutenant Stebbings RAN: A great many lives are at stake, Mr. Eckland!

Walter Eckland: Now listen to me, both of you! Now, several years ago, I made peace with the World. Now, if the World isn't bright enough to make peace with ITSELF, it's just going to have to settle things without me!

[catching a fish barehanded. A fish swims toward them]

Walter Eckland: [In a hushed voice] Hey, here she comes again.

Catherine Freneau: How do you know it's a "she"?

Walter Eckland: Her mouth is open, now be quiet.

Walter Eckland: [on the radio on his island] When do I get off?

Commander Frank Houghton RAN: I told you, as soon as we find a replacement for you. In the meantime, try to relax. Oh, and I'm very sorry about your boat. I really am.

Walter Eckland: Is Big Bad Wolf *really* sorry? Because if he is, Big Bad Wolf and Little Bo Peep can DO something for Mother Goose. THEY CAN GO...

[Stebbings cuts the radio off before any profanity goes through]

Commander Frank Houghton RAN: [to Stebbings] I don't really blame him, do you?

Lieutenant Stebbings RAN: Sir, I don't think we've accomplished anything. I don't think he'll report in. I mean, you can lead a horse to water, but can you make it drink?

Commander Frank Houghton RAN: [calmly] When he gets thirsty, he'll drink, Stebbings. He'll drink.

Lieutenant Stebbings RAN: Mother Goose is requesting a chaplain.

Commander Frank Houghton RAN: A chaplain? Good heavens, he's killed her.

Lieutenant Stebbings RAN: No, sir. They want to get married.

Commander Frank Houghton RAN: Married? Goody Two-Shoes and the Filthy Beast?

Lobby Cards:

Directed by Ralph Nelson.

Distributed by Universal-International.

Running time: 116 minutes.

Artwork by Rebekah Hawley at Studio36.

On This Day...The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Cary Grant's 50th full length feature film, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, was released today, back in 1947. 

Summary: 

Teenaged Susan Turner (Shirly Temple), with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent (Cary Grant), sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister, Judge Margaret Turner (Myrna Loy). Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates. He counters Susan's comic false sophistication by even more comic put-on teenage mannerisms, with a slapstick climax.

Cast:

Cary Grant...Dick Nugent

Myrna Loy...Judge Margaret Turner

Shirley Temple...Susan Turner

Rudy Vallee...District Attorney Tommy Chamberlain

Ray Collins...Dr. Matthew Beemish

Harry Davenport...Judge Thaddeus Turner

Johnny Sands...Jerry White

Don Beddoe...Joey

Lillian Randolph...Bessie

Veda Ann Borg...Agnes Prescott

Dan Tobin...Chester Walters

Ransom M. Sherman...Judge Treadwell (as Ransom Sherman)

William Bakewell...Winters

Irving Bacon...Melvin - Police Turnkey

Ian Bernard...Perry

Carol Hughes...Florence

William Hall...Anthony Herman

Gregory Gaye...Maitre d'Hotel (as Gregory Gay)

Did You Know?

The "Man with the Power" routine was the inspiration for the song "Magic Dance" in the movie Labyrinth (1986) and was also  adapted into the song lyric of The Atomic Fireballs' song "Man With the Hex" during the Swing Revival of the 1990s.

Myrna Loy was almost 23 years older than her on-screen sister Shirley Temple.

In the final scene between Ray Collins and Cary Grant, wherein Collins tries to convince Grant to carry on in his pursuit of Myrna Loy, all of Collins' dialogue is looped.

There are a couple of "in joke" references to Shirley Temple in the film. When Cary Grant is sitting with Shirley in the soda shop, the waitress serves him a "Shirley Temple" drink. Later, when Shirley is in her room, packing her suitcase, she takes a Shirley Temple doll off the mantle over her fireplace.

This film won the Best Writing, Original Screenplay Oscar for its only Academy Award nomination.

Quotes:

Richard Nugent: Hey, you remind me of a man.

Susan Turner: What man?

Richard Nugent: Man with the power.

Susan Turner: What power?

Richard Nugent: Power of hoodoo.

Susan Turner: Hoodoo?

Richard Nugent: You do.

Susan Turner: Do what?

Richard Nugent: Remind me of a man...

Matt Beemish: I'm the court psychiatrist.

Richard Nugent: Come back in an hour. I'll be crazy by then.

Matt Beemish: A girl her age is entitled to growing pains, isn't she?

Judge Margaret Turner: Yes, but Susan's growing pains are rapidly becoming a major disease.

Richard (Dick) Nugent: How'd you get in here?

Matt Beemish: Well, the door was closed, so I opened it and came right in.

Richard Nugent: [Jerry is sitting in his car in front of the Turner house] Jerry, what are you doing out here? Why don't you go inside?

Jerry White: I'm not welcome. I'm a square in Susan's social circle.

Richard Nugent: Nonsense, I'm sure Susan doesn't know you're out here.

Jerry White: She put me here.

Richard Nugent: Oh.

Waiter at Tick Tock Club: [to Nugent after he has been yelled at, insulted, slapped, had champagne tossed in his face and been stuck with the check] Can I get you anything else, sir?

Richard Nugent: For instance?

Judge Margaret Turner: Mr. Nugent, I have good news.

Richard (Dick) Nugent: You're going to hang me.

Judge Margaret Turner: I'm afraid I'm the one who ought to be hanged.

Richard (Dick) Nugent: Won't I sit down?

Judge Margaret Turner: Please do.

Judge Margaret Turner: It's nothing. I'm sure you didn't know she'd be here.

Richard (Dick) Nugent: Are you sure you're sure I didn't know she'd be here?

Chester Walters: You're charged with hitting the district attorney.

[sic]

Chester Walters: Did you or did you not hit him?

Richard (Dick) Nugent: I hit him. That's right. But at the time I hit him, I did not know he was the ASSISTANT district attorney. If I had known he was the ASSISTANT district attorney... I would have hit him.

Posters:

Directed by Irving Reis.

Distributed by RKO Radio.

Running time: 95 minutes.

Artwork by Rebekah Hawley at Studio36.

On This Day...The American Citizen (1942)

 On this day, 26th June 1942, Archie Leach not only became Cary Grant, officially, but also became an American Citizen.

Newspaper clipping reporting the event.

U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services documentation.

Still a British Citizen and still Archie Leach at age 37!!

First Passport stamped 1946!

This passport shows travel in the 1960's.

Issued in 1965.

Issued in 1975 and expired in 1980.

On This Day... Gambling Ship (1933)

On 23 June 1933, Cary Grant's 11th full length film, Gambling Ship, was released.

Summary:

Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin (Cary Grant) 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. 

On the train, he meets Eleanor (Benita Hume) and they fall in love. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deceptions collide with the typical results. But will love conquer all?

Cast:

Cary Grant... Ace Corbin
Benita Hume... Eleanor La Velle
Jack La Rue... Pete Manning
Glenda Farrell... Jeanne Sands
Roscoe Karns... Blooey
Arthur Vinton... Joe Burke
Charles Williams... Baby Face
Edwin Maxwell... D.A
Spencer Charters... Detective

Did You Know?

It was based on Paul Cain's short stories: 'Fast One', 'Lead Party', 'Velvet' and 'The Heat', which were published in Black Mask magazine.

A technical advisor was used to familiarize the actors in the film with the details of the parlance, activities, and manners of the gambling world. To maintain his anonymity he was known only as 

'Mr. 100'.

Carole Lombard was considered for the role of Eleanor La Velle.

After an African American boot-black called Oscar, who worked on the Paramount lot, was cast in a bit part, a black cinema in Los Angeles billed this movie as: "Sensational star in Gambling Ship, Oscar supported by Cary Grant." All the promo pictures outside the cinema were of Oscar.

Also Known As:

(original title)        Gambling Ship
Brazil                     Cassino Flutuante
Canada                  (English title)Gambling Ship
Japan                     (Japanese title)海の密室
Mexico                  Casino del mar
Portugal                 OCasino do Mar
Spain                     Casino del mar
Sweden                 Hasardskeppet
UK                        Gambling Ship

Lobby Cards:

Directed by Louis Gasnier and Max Marcin.
Produced and distributed by Paramount Publix.
Running time: 72 minutes.

Artwork by Rebekah Hawley of Studio 36.

The Cary Grant Gallery by Rebekah Hawley (February 2021)

As another month comes to a close, it's actually the first month that my posts have featured bespoke artwork by Rebekah Hawley. They were commissioned for my film release posts, as a refresh, for 2021.

Here is a round up.

Wings in the Dark:

Released on the 1st February, 1935.

The Woman Accused:

Released on the 17th February, 1933.

Gunga Din:

Released on the 17th February, 1939.

When You're in Love:

Released on the 27th February, 1937.

Look out for more artwork by Rebekah Hawley over the coming months. All 72 Cary Grant films will be featured in this way!