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Charade (1963)

Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) is a young married woman who’s not sure she ought to be married. Her husband, Charles, is keeping something from her; she just knows it, and she can’t live with the uncertainty. She goes on a trip to try to sort things out, and while gone, she meets Peter Joshua, (Cary Grant) a fascinating man who seems interested in her. She, however, is interested in keeping her distance. My favorite line in the movie takes place when she’s meeting Peter for the first time and asks him if he’d like to get to know her. She … Continue reading →

52 Romantic Movies You Either Love or Hate

Dale’s blogs about some of her favorite romantic movies (see “Favorite Romance Movies” and “Favorite Romance Movies-Part 2”) has inspired this next one from me. The idea took hold because I sympathized with a comment one reader, deedee1231, left on both blogs regarding the movie Casablanca. She wasn’t a fan. (Though she didn’t begrudge Dale for including it on her fave list.) Deedee1231 thought Casablanca was overhyped. (Though she also admitted she’d seen it so many times she was just plum over it.) I chuckled with sympathy when I read her comment. Though it wasn’t Casablanca I had in mind, … Continue reading →

Funny Face (1957)

Fred Astaire is arguably one of the most famous actors to come out of Hollywood, as is Audrey Hepburn. Put the two together in one film, and it’s bound to be magic. In “Funny Face,” Astaire plays Dick Avery, a photographer for a fashion magazine. His boss, Maggie, wants to find a new model, one that is beautiful but can also think. They decide to do a shoot in a bookstore and find just the one they want, but the employee of that bookstore makes it difficult for them. She thinks fashion is a silly waste of time and doesn’t … Continue reading →

A Kiss before Dying (1956)

“A Kiss before Dying” is a murder mystery/suspense movie starring Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward as college lovers Bud and Dorie. When Dorie tells Bud she’s pregnant, he sees his dreams for his future go up in smoke. Dorie comes from a rich family, and his plan had been to worm his way into her father’s heart, become the darling of the family, and take over the financial interests of the family mine. But now, with Dorie pregnant, he knows he’ll never get on the father’s good side. (Too bad he didn’t think about that before . . . ) … Continue reading →

The Awful Truth (1937)

The Oscar-winning film “The Awful Truth,” starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, is a remarkable film in many ways. First, much of it was unscripted. The director was an eccentric sort of personality who believed in doing things spur of the moment, so much of what you see on the screen was ad-libbed by Grant and Dunne, who do a superb job. Second, while this was not Grant’s first film, it was the one in which he hits upon that “Cary Grant” persona we are so familiar with today. It’s also downright hysterical. Cary Grant plays Jerry Warriner, a bit … Continue reading →

I Was a Male War Bride and His Girl Friday

Cary Grant stars as Henri Rochard, a French officer, in “I Was a Male War Bride,” made in 1949 and set in Germany just after World War II. Henri has worked quite a bit with Lt. Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) throughout the war, and as they are being shipped home, they realize they are in love with each other. He wants to come home to America with her, but it all presents a problem. They want to bring him home on Army transport, but he can’t travel with Catherine because she’s supposed to be sailing on a ship full of … Continue reading →

Love in the Afternoon (1957)

Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper star opposite each other in this romantic comedy, set in Paris. Hepburn is Ariane Chavasse, the daughter of Claude Chavasse, private investigator (Maurice Chevalier) who is best known for tracking down unfaithful spouses. His files are full of stories of deception, intrigue, and forbidden love, and Ariane has been reading them like novels, unbeknownst to him. His current client is sure his wife is cheating on him, and after following her around, Claude has the evidence. Madame X is indeed involved with an American by the name of Frank Flannigan (Cooper) a playboy who has … Continue reading →

My Fair Lady (1964)

An adaptation of the 1913 play “Pygmalion,” “My Fair Lady” was one of the vehicles that propelled Audrey Hepburn into super-stardom. We were used to seeing her as an elegant, refined lady, and in the first scenes of this film, we see her as Eliza Doolittle, the crass, dirty flower peddler who hangs out at the opera house to hit up the patrons for a few coins in exchange for her floral bundles. Her accent is the broadest form of cockney in the land, and when Professor Henry Higgins lays ears on her, he knows he must study her for … Continue reading →

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Dr. David Huxley has just received a package containing a rare dinosaur bone. With this bone, he can complete the skeleton he’s been working on for years, the pinnacle of his career. To top it off, he’s engaged to be married to his assistant, and his life is going splendidly. That is, until he meets Susan Vance, a flighty, carefree heiress who immediately sets her sights on him. Unfortunately for him, this means that she’s going to make his life very complicated. Susan’s brother has sent their aunt a gift – a tame leopard named Baby who loves music, especially … Continue reading →

Topper (1937)

Starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett as the Kirbys, a fun-loving young married couple who gets killed in a car accident, “Topper,” the classic black and white film, has a very cute premise. Unable to find a way to get to Heaven, our ghosts decide they must be lacking in good deeds, and no one needs a good deed done to them more than their stuffy friend Topper, president of the bank. Topper’s life is ordered and precise, his every movement dictated by his wife, and he hardly ever has any fun. The Kirbys are just the ticket to open … Continue reading →