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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)

Ingrid Bergman stars as Gladys Aylworth in this deeply touching film about a woman who wants to make a difference in the world. She wants to go to China and work as a missionary, but when she applies with her church, the missionary department decides that she doesn’t have the experience she needs to undertake such a task. Always shy and submissive, she breaks out of her mold and decides to go to China anyway. She takes a job as a domestic and earns money for her passage, but when she arrives in China, discovers that it’s much harder than … Continue reading →

Indiscreet (1958)

In “Indiscreet,” Anna Kalman (Ingrid Bergman) is an actress who has earned a name for herself on the stage. Her career has kept her from meeting the man of her dreams, and she’s nearly given up hope that she’ll ever marry. But then she meets a co-worker of her brother-in-law’s, and her mind is changed. Phillip Adams (Cary Grant) is everything she has ever dreamed of, and more. He’s dashing, handsome, considerate, charming . . . . well, he’s Cary Grant. You can see why she’d be swept off her feet. There’s just one problem – he’s married. But he’s … 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 →

Suspicion (1941)

Joan Fontaine won an Oscar for her role in “Suspicion” as Lina, a young woman who is given to reading books, riding horses, and living a quiet life with her parents on their country estate. She is traveling home by train when she meets up with Johnny (Cary Grant) a charming rascal who manages to “borrow” some of his train fare from her. He comes to a fox hunt on her estate and manages to schmooze her, breaking down her natural walls. When he doesn’t return as promised, she realizes how much she likes him, so much so that when … Continue reading →

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Take the world’s most handsome and charming leading man and team him up with the world’s most beautiful and alluring woman, put them in an exotic location with a great plot and team them with the world’s most famous and talented director. What do you get? Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece, “To Catch a Thief.” John Robie (Grant) used to be a world-class jewel thief. Known as “The Cat,” he pulled off some amazing jobs in his day. But his conscience got to him, and he joined the French Resistance to try to atone for … 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 →