Tag: Cary Grant

Blogathon – The Classic Movie History Project (2015)

I was very excited to see a post about The Classic Movie History Project Blogathon last week, so have managed to jump at the chance to look at some older films that I have throughly enjoyed and put my thoughts all together in one post about quite a few films.

The blogathon is being hosted by Fritz at Movies Silently, Ruth at Silver Screenings, Aurora at Once Upon A Screen and sponsored by Flicker Alley. My post is in the modern era . . .

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I’m No Angel (1933) Review

Tira works as a dancer and lion tamer for a fair, when she becomes in urgent need of money she decides to accept a crazy challenge. Putting her head in the mouth of one of the lions.

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The Grass Is Greener (1960) Review

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than just the castle . . .

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“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”

Archibald Alexander Leach created the stage name Cary Grant and it seems that he even wanted to be Cary Grant as well. The title of this blog post is a quote from the great man himself. He was born in Bristol, England but later in his life once he reached the Hollywood leading man status he gained American citizenship.

He was nominated twice for an Academy Award but only ever won an honorary Oscar. Grant has often been voted the greatest movie star of all time – if not coming first he is very near the top. His charisma and on-screen presence really was just incredible, he had a brilliant charm and manner that it was impossible not to love him.

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Cary Grant – LAMB Acting School

Large Association of Movie Blogs

This month’s LAMB Acting School features Cary Grant, who I list as one of my favorite actors. He had an incredible on screen presence and really was something else. We don’t see actors like Grant anymore, or even see characters like he played. They were always so charming and obviously he was so handsome.

Reviews

Charade (1963) 

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) 

An Affair to Remember (1957)

Features

Cool Off With The Classics

Top 10: Movie Characters I Would Like To Be For The Day (to be his love interest!)

Cary Grant Week on Sky Movies

 

 

 

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Cool Off With The Classics

Cool off with the Classics . . . a blogathon consisting of a top 10 list of some classic black and white films. It didn’t really take very long for a few of the films to come straight to my mind for this list. I am not going to put them in any particular order, but 10 films are included.

Marc from Go, See, Talk has done it again with another fantastic blogathon and you can see the original post linked to everyone else’s posts here.

While some films came straight to my mind, I actually found it quite difficult to get to ten films without ending up with mainly Mae West and Marx Brothers films in the list. This has made me realise that I have a lot of films that I must watch!

After making the list I got to thinking about how all of the films I have chosen have so many quotes that are still repeated and loved today. Is that due to the black and white look of the films or just how times have changed? Also performance wise just seems to be so much better than a lot of the current day films.

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Top 10: Movie Characters I Would Like To Be For The Day

Well I stumbled across a post on My Filmviews blog titled Which Movie Character Would You Like To Be For The Day and decided to follow suit and complete my top 10 of movie characters I would like to be for the day. Putting this list together didn’t really take too long at all. Especially as most of the characters come from my favorite films.

I tried not to be shallow and pick characters based on their leading man . . . but I think that failed with some of the choices but I mean that had to be a coincident. I honestly didn’t do it on purpose! Yes a few of them are musical characters, maybe that’s because I am tone-deaf!

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Weekly Review 1

As from today, and every Monday after this I am going to to a weekly review of the blog and other blog posts which I found interesting and well worth the read.

Reviews

Up (2009)

The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

Love Happens (2009)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

17 Again (2009)

Charade (1963)

 

Other

Nine Release Date Change

Toy Story 3 (2010) Trailer

FlashForward

Cary Grant Week

Nicholas Sparks Novels turned Movies

 

Bloggers

Cinematic Heaven & Hell posted Top 10 Romantic Comedies of the Decade

Fandango Groover’s Movie Blog posted Top 10 Movies of the Decade & Across the Universe Review

M.Carter at the Movies poster To Kill A Mockingbird Review

The mOvie Blog posted Growing Old in Hollywood

 

Blog to watch

The Imaginarium of Doctor Paranassus – A group of fans trying to ensure the film gets a big release in the US and latest news posted.

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Charade (1963) Review

I managed to get a head start to the Cary Grant week on Sky Movies, as “Charade” is on anytime TV so it made for a good movie to watch when I woke up early on a Sunday morning. It was very charming and funny, no I am not just talking about Cary Grant I am referring to the whole movie.

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Cary Grant Week – Sky Movies

I was very excited and happy when I first saw the new Sky Movies magazine when I came across a Cary Grant week which was going to take place in October. Well that week is almost upon us and I will have Sky+ working hard with recording all of the Cary Grant movies which will be shown. While I adore Cary Grant I have only seen him in two movies, so really need to catch up.

Schedule for next week:

Mon 19th  Notorious
Tue 20th  To Catch A Thief
Wed 21st  Indiscreet
Thu 22nd  Houseboat
Fri 23rd  Operation Petticoat
Sat 24th Charade
Sun 25th Father Goose

I was quite shocked to see that one of my favorite films is not in the list “An Affair to Remember”. But any way I am very excited to watch all of these movies, so next week is going to be Cary Grant reviews week as well.

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