Lisa Lieberman's Blog - Posts Tagged "cary-grant"
Holiday
“Holiday” was made in 1938, the same year as the much better known Grant and Hepburn film, “Bringing Up Baby.” This one’s a romantic comedy too, but it’s got an edge.
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The Pride and the Passion
I rarely pass up an opportunity to watch Cary Grant, and this epic’s notorious because of the romance that developed between Grant and Loren in the course of filming it.
Grant’s marriage to Betsy Drake was dissolving; Loren was waiting for Carlo Ponti to divorce his wife. “Both of us soon realized that the feelings between us were beginning to be laced with love — and we were scared.”
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Grant’s marriage to Betsy Drake was dissolving; Loren was waiting for Carlo Ponti to divorce his wife. “Both of us soon realized that the feelings between us were beginning to be laced with love — and we were scared.”
Read the review on Deathless Prose
Blonde Venus
You can watch this film to see naughty Marlene Dietrich and you can also watch it to see how the studio tried—and failed—to rein her in. The cabaret singer we met in The Blue Angel, the cold-hearted seductress who wears a man’s top hat, reappears here in a glittering white tuxedo. Marlene swings both ways in Blonde Venus (as the actress did in real life). Sauntering onstage in the Paris nightclub where she’s become the star attraction, she frankly admires another showgirl, giving her a fleeting caress in passing, as if to say, I’ll catch you later, sweetie. And yet she also manages to convey an aloofness. It’s part of her allure. Nobody steals her heart, but she dares you to try. (According to her biographer, Donald Spoto, French actor Jean Gabin was the only one to succeed.)
Josef von Sternberg may have been trying to rehabilitate Dietrich’s image with this film, but nobody was buying it. If the poster isn't suggestive enough, take a look at the tagline: From the lips of one man to the arms of another.
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