Born to be Bad (1934), I Was a Male War Bride (1949), To Catch a Thief (1955), Father Goose (1964)
Category: Cary Grant
The Bishop’s Wife
Hollywood could not have picked a more perfect woman to play the Bishop’s Wife.
With Loretta Young, being heavily religious herself, we were quite certain no one but Cary Grant could possibly ever turn her head away from her duties as wife to another, after all they did play in Born to Be Bad together.
Luckily, in The Bishop’s Wife, Cary Grant is just there to help with no intention of wife-stealing. You’d have to watch this collection for that.
Marian the Librarian
March 31, 1934 Shirley Jones The Music Man
At the start of casting for The Music Man, she was promised the same leading man she had originally been promised for Carousel…Frank Sinatra… alas, it was not to be. Second Choice Cary Grant, also turned down the role, and handed it back to Jack Warner, very verbally calling to allow Robert Preston into the lead instead. Robert Preston, at 44 years old, was transforming himself into a musical comedy genius, after his Tony win in the original Music, and eventually contracts were signed to allow Preston to play Shirley’s leading man. Defining the role of Marian the Librarian, Shirley masters the role, as I imagine perhaps none other than Julie Andrews could. Morphing from the piano teacher behind very closed doors, to the girl we know and love giving in to her impulses on that bridge just before her con man is run out of town, she does us proud in the name of womanhood. Happy Birthday Shirley!!!
MANDATORY CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD FILM LIST…PART DEAUX
LIST TWO…
Rochellelynn is correct we have watched A LOT of Classic Hollywood films. And making this list only confirms what I believed in the past. I am a Warner Brothers Studio Girl and Rochellelynn is an MGM Studio Girl. And I mean Studio as opposed to Archive. Because any Studio film can end up in an Archive or Vault Collection set. When you our illustrious readers compile your own mandatory film list it will be fun to see what kind of Classic Hollywood Film Studio type girl or boy you are, let us know!
Adventures of Robin Hood…Warner Brothers-1938
All Through the Night…Warner Brothers-1942
Angels Wash Their Faces…Warner Brothers-1939
Angels with Dirty Faces…Warner Brothers-1938
Because of Him…Universal-1946
Black Swan…20th Century Fox-1942
Bride Came C.O.D, The.…Warner Brothers-1941
Brother Rat…Warner Brothers-1938
Calamity Jane…Warner Brothers-1953
Christmas Holiday…Universal-1944
Dead End…Samuel Goldwyn-1937
Dinner at Eight…MGM-1933
Edge of Darkness…Warner Brothers-1943
Foreign Affair…Paramount-1948
Four Daughters…Warner Brothers-1938
Gilda…Columbia-1946
Gone With the Wind…David O. Seltznik-1939
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn…Mickey Rooney…MGM-1939
Hunchback of Notre Dame…Charles Laughton…RKO-1939
I Married a Witch…United Artist-1942
It Happened One Night…Columbia-1934
Inn of the Sixth Happiness…20th Century Fox-1958
It Started with Eve…Universal-1941
Juke Girl…Warner Brothers-1942
Life with Father…Warner Brothers-1947
Mad About Music…Universal-1938
Male Animal…Warner Brothers-1942
Meet John Doe…Warner Brothers-1941
Midnight Mary…MGM-1933
Miracle of Morgan’s Creek…Paramount-1944
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town…Columbia-1936
My Favorite Wife…RKO-1940
Only Angels Have Wings…Columbia-1939
Perils of Pauline…Paramount-1947
Primrose Path…RKO-1940
Princess O’Rourke…Warner Brothers1943
Quiet Man…Republic-1952
Rachel and the Stranger…RKO-1948
Saboteur…Universal-1942
Shepherd of the Hills…Paramount-1941
So Proudly We Hail…Paramount-1943
Spanish Main…RKO-1945
Strawberry Blonde…Warner Brothers-1941
Taming of the Shrew…Columbia-1967
Tarzan the Ape Man…Johnny Weissmuller…MGM-1932
To Have and Have Not…Warner Brothers-1944
Trouble with Angels…Columbia-1966
Unconquered…Paramoun-1947
Unfaithful, The…Warner Brothers-1947
Viva Las Vegas…MGM-1964
We’re no Angels…Paramount-1955
What a Way to Go…20th Century Fox-1964
You Were Never Lovelier…Columbia-1942
MANDATORY CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD FILM LIST
LIST ONE…..
Note: We’ve watched A LOT of classic Hollywood films. This is my list so far- and no they’re not necessarily based on anything even close to “merit.” I know annstj will have her own list, so look out for a LIST TWO. This was prompted by my younger brother asking what “other” old films he should watch( other than Thin Man) to complete his Classic Hollywood Education. Add your own Mandatories in the comments.
American in Paris…MGM -1951
Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer…RKO-1947
Ball of Fire…Samuel Goldwyn Co. -1941
Big Sleep…Warner Brothers – 1946
Breakfast at Tiffany’s…Paramount-1961
Bringing up Baby…RKO-1938
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid…20th Century Fox-1969
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof…MGM-1958
Christmas in Connecticut…Warner Brothers-1945
Darby O’Gill and the Little People…Walt Disney-1959
Double Indemnity…Paramount-1944
Gay Divorcee, The…RKO-1934
Gigi…MGM-1958
Girl Happy…MGM-1965
Glass Bottomed Boat…MGM-1966
Good Fairy, The…Universal-1935
High Society…MGM-1956
His Girl Friday…Columbia-1940
How to Marry a Millionaire…20th Century Fox-1953
How to Steal a Million…20th Century Fox-1966
Lady Eve, The…Paramount-1941
Libeled Lady…MGM-1936
Major and the Minor…Paramount-1942
Mark of Zorro…20th Century Fox-1940
Mary Poppins…Disney-1964
More the Merrier, The…Columbia-1943
Move over Darling…20th Century Fox-1963
Mr. and Mrs. Smith…RKO-1941
Music Man…Warner Brothers-1962
My Fair Lady…Warner Brothers-1964
My Man Godfrey…Universal-1936
My Sister Eileen…Columbia-1942
Pillow Talk…Universal-1959
Singing in the Rain…MGM-1952
Some Like It Hot…United Artists-1959
Something in the Wind…Universal International-1947
Sullivan’s Travel…Paramount-1942
Take Me Out to the Ballgame…MGM-1949
Thin Man…MGM-1934
Thoroughly Modern Millie…Universal International- 1967
Three Smart Girls…Universal-1936
Tom Jones…Woodfall Film Productions-1963
Two Sisters From Boston…MGM-1946
Women, The…MGM-1934
Ann Sheridan
Feb 21, 1915 ~ January 21, 1967
Ann Sheridan, Juke Girl with plenty of Oomph. Ann played characters that survived a lynching in Juke Girl. Was extremely brave for the greater good in Edge of Darkness, made you laugh in I was a Male War Bride and made you cry in King’s Row. And it’s hard to believe but she suffered from loneliness in The Unfaithful. No matter what emotion she played Ann’s movies are always fun to watch especially when her co-stars are, Errol, Ronnie, and Cary.
Happy Birthday Ann Sheridan!