Cary Grant

[kochie332]

great pictures boomer! that suit that he is wearing in North by Northwest is rather nice. i would be interested in hearing your interesting story

and I have never seen The Awful Truth! I will have to go rent it sometime. I was watching Arsenic and Old Lace last night, and I think hes quite good at comedy

 

[Boomer]

OK, if you've seen North by Northwest, he wore this three button glen plaid suit through about 90% of the film (there were several suits, I'm sure, since one got trashed in the famous scene in cornfields with the biplane!)...But Martin Landau's character in the film, the creepy assistant to James Mason's villain, was one of the most enigmatic rolls, much written about since the film came out...Was he a hit man? A gay lover? Trying to take over the operation from the boss? It is hard to tell...So Hitchcock decided he needed to align him with Roger Thronhill (Cary) as a bridge between the Good Guys and the evil ones... To indicate this. he secretly sent Martin to Cary's own tailor to have an almost identical suit made up, it is actually the same suit in a worsted fabric...Cary knew nothing of this until they showed up to start filming and evidently was not too happy about it- and of course, being Cary Grant he knew immediately where the suit came from!
So if you watch the movie, you can see two main characters wearing almost identical outfits from the same custom tailor, which actually sounds just like a Hitchcock sort of subliminal connection...

 

[kochie332]

I will definitely have to watch that movie again to see, that was good thinking by Hitchcock to show the connection. very interesting, thanks for sharing boomer!

 

[kochie332]

amana

 

[kochie332]

same source

 

[inhirnamy137]

I had a crush on him, so Handsome

 

[kochie332]

eyedea

 

[kochie332]

same source

 

[nel16]

Awesome Cary pics, kochie! I love North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief, Monkey Business... in fact, despite having seen so many of his films, I don't think there's ever been one I've disliked (very rare, as I am picky). Anyway, he's great

 

[Boomer]

^^ Oh, try to see People Will Talk and Once Upon a Time...Absolutely dreadful....But Cary was good, of course...

And thanks for the North by Northwest pics, Kochie!! The legendary glen plaid suit!!

 

[Boomer]

Extra Credit Question: Where did the title for North by Northwest come from??? (I had to watch it ten times before I got it...)

 

[kochie332]

welcome everybody

and i have no idea what the answer to your extra credit question is?! please do tell!

 

[Boomer]

Welll.... After the CIA finally steps in and helps him out and tells him what's going on, they take him to the airport in Chicago and tell him he has to go to Mt Rushmore (North) and they walk out to the plane which is a Northwest Orient Airlines airplane!!! So he has to go North by Northwest...B) Couldn't you just strangle Hitchcock sometimes?? It took me years to figure it out!!

 

[kochie332]

i really had no idea! that hitchcock, he was clever

 

[weathergirl]

If my recollection serves me right, didn't he star opposite Katharine Hepburn in the original version of "The Philadelphia Story"? In any case, he is the epitome of the classic hollywood debonair: smooth and suave!

 

[Boomer]

Yup, along with Jimmy Stewart, a classic for sure...Remade, as you no doubt know, as High Society with Grace Kelly...Cary also did Sylvia Scarlett, Bringing Up Baby and Holiday with Katherine Hepburn, btw...

 

[weathergirl]

^Ahh, cool. I wasn't in the least aware that both he and Katharine starred in many films together! My knowledge with Grant and his extensive list of films is disappointingly limited, as I've only seen, "The Philadelphia Story". I think I'll do some non-exhaustive research on him during my downtime...

 

[Boomer]

My own favorites, although they are by no means his best films, are Indiscreet with Ingrid Bergman and That Touch of Mink with Doris Day...No reason, really, just fun movies that I've watched over and over again...AMC and Turner Classic Movies has one or another of his movies on just about every other day, if you check the listings...Great way to see a bunch of them easily...

 

[weathergirl]

My own favorites, although they are by no means his best films, are Indiscreet with Ingrid Bergman and That Touch of Mink with Doris Day...No reason, really, just fun movies that I've watched over and over again...AMC and Turner Classic Movies has one or another of his movies on just about every other day, if you check the listings...Great way to see a bunch of them easily...

I might just heed your advice and tune into Turner Classic/AMC, since you seem like a loyal Grant aficionado. Summer's almost upon us and the semester's nearing its completion for me, so I might as well spend some time indoors watching classic films featuring the prepossessing actor!

 

[Boomer]

Great idea!! And, he was very underrated as an actor, btw...He was so polished and effortless in his roles everyone thought it was just him playing himself- never seeing the years of work that went into making it look so easy... I remember watching his actions in slow motion to learn things- even how he walked through a door (don't laugh, I had to practice his technique!!) Robert Wagner and George Hamilton said they used to go down when he was filming just to watch him walk when they were young actors, just to learn his tricks... In films like Penny Serenade and None But The Lonely Heart, both tearjerkers, he was so good at serious acting roles- he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Lonely Heart- something everyone forgets... B)