Showing posts with label Madame Butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Madame Butterfly. Show all posts

Friday, December 30, 2022

Quote From Today.... Madame Butterfly (1932)


"Oh, I guess she'd pass in a crowd"

With Sylvia Sidney.full-length


Madame Butterfly was Cary Grant's 7th full length feature film.


Cho-Cho San: [Cho-Cho San has found Adelaide's photo in Pinkerton's trunk. She brings it to him with the pipe cleaners] I found them like this

Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton: Thank you very much, Cho-Cho San

[he puts the photo aside]

Cho-Cho San: She very beautiful, that American lady

Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton: Oh, I guess she'd pass in a crowd

Cho-Cho San: She some lady you know very well?

Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton: Sure, sure. We've known each other for years

Cho-Cho San: She love you very much, perhaps?

Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton: No, of course not

Cho-Cho San: [she picks up the photo and points to the inscription that reads 'To Bin with all my love always'] What this writing say?

Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton: Oh, that. That just says 'lots of luck'

Cho-Cho San: Oh. But maybe you very much in love with her?

Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton: How can I have room in my heart for anyone but Madame Butterfly?

Friday, June 26, 2020

"Lights, camera...action!" - The Directors - Part 4

So there were four directors who worked with Cary Grant on three films each.

They were, Marion Gering, George Cukor, Leo McCarey and George Stevens.

Marion Gering:

19th June 1901 - 19th April 1977

Devil and the Deep (1932)


With Charles Laughton and Tallulah Bankhead.

Madame Butterfly (1932)


With Sylvia Sidney

Thirty-Day Princess (1934)


Again with Sylvia Sidney

George Cukor:

7th July 1899 - 24th January 1983

On Grant -"One of the reasons he was so successful as an actor was that he truly just behaved like he was a normal guy and like he didn't look like that."

Sylvia Scarlett (1936)


With Katharine Hepburn.

Holiday (1938)


Again with Katharine Hepburn.

The Philadelphia Story (1941)


With George Cukor, John Howard and Katharine Hepburn.

George Cukor was awarded an Oscar for Best Director for The Philadelphia Story. He also directed many Oscar nominated performances.


Leo McCarey:

3rd October 1898 - 5th July 1969


The Awful Truth (1937)


Publicity shot with Irene Dunne and Leo McCarey.

Leo McCarey won the Oscar for Best Director.

Once Upon A Honeymoon (1942)


With Ginger Rogers.

An Affair to Remember (1957)


With Deborah Kerr.

George Stevens :

18th December 1904 - 8th March 1975

Gunga Din (1939)


On the set of Gunga Din (above) relaxing and (below) with George Stevens.


Penny Serenade (1941)


On set of the film that bought him his first Oscar nomination.

The Talk of the Town (1942)


With George Stevens, Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman.

Four directors completed two film projects each with Cary Grant...
..."Lights, camera...action!" - The Directors - Part 5