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Language
English
Description
"Born Archibald Leach in 1904, he came to America as a teenaged acrobat to find fame and fortune, but he was always haunted by his past. His father was an alcoholic, and his mother was committed to an asylum when Archie was eleven years old. He believed her to be dead until he was informed she was alive when he was thirty-one years old. Because of this experience Grant would have difficulty forming close attachments throughout his life; he married...
3) Charade
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
In this equally thrilling and romantic classic, Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) falls for the dashing Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) while on holiday in the French Alps. Her newfound romance is interrupted, however, upon her return home, when it is revealed that her husband has been murdered. Regina and Peter soon find themselves pursued by her husband's World War II cronies, Tex (James Coburn), Scobie (George Kennedy) and Gideon (Ned Glass), who are after...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
Among the stately homes of England lives British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to make ends meet. One such tourist is wealthy Texan Charles Delacro (Robert Mitchum), who sets his sights upon Victor's lovely wife, Hilary (Deborah Kerr). In his efforts to win back his wife's attention, Victor presses his former girlfriend Hattie Durant (Jean Simmons) into service. Nominated for Best Motion Picture...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
Love arrives with a splash when a handsome and eligible tycoon (Cary Grant) and a beautiful working woman (Doris Day) meet over a curbside mud puddle. He’s enchanted by her small town ways; she’s captivated by his romantic, debonair manner. But when it comes to marriage, they have decidedly different views – she wants it and he doesn’t! What ensues is a game of cat-and-mouse as each tries to win the other – with hilarious and heartwarming...
6) Indiscreet
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this classic romantic comedy Cary Grant plays Philip Adams, a suave American diplomat who pretends to be married in order to preserve his bachelor status. Ingrid Bergman is Anna Kalman, a glamorous leading lady of the London stage who has no scruples about having an affair with a married man. Soon their blazing romance is the talk of the town, but when Bergman discovers that Grant is not married, sparks really begin to fly. Nominated for Best Motion...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Love arrives with a splash when a handsome, eligible tycoon and a beautiful working woman meet over an outside mud puddle. He's enchanted by her small town ways, and she's captivated by his romantic, debonair manner. But when it comes to marriage they have decidedly different views, she wants it and he doesn't! It's a game of cat-and-mouse as each tries to win the other, with hilarious and heartwarming results.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. Try as they each might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help but meddle in Lucy's ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman, and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following her lead.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
11) Father Goose
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Cary Grant stars in one of his funniest roles as a beachcomber sitting out WWII in peace - until the Allies recruit him to be a lookout on the South Pacific isle. During an enemy attack, he answers a distress call and discovers a beautiful French schoolmarm (Leslie Caron) and her seven girl students. And so begins a hilarious battle of the sexes between a messy American, a prim Mademoiselle, and seven mischievous little girls. Who will win is anybody's...
12) Holiday: [1938]
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fianče's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as well as a thoughtful reflection...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. Unfortunately, one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see "his" girl, not realizing she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness5and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he2s Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who2s a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic...
15) To catch a thief
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances, he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother's fabulous jewels. His plan backfires, however, but Frances, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape. In a spine-tingling climax, the real criminal is exposed.
16) Penny serenade
Series
Publisher
American Pop Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Classic soap opera, Penny Serenade is the story of a young couple who seem to have everything, but must overcome a great tragedy to learn the value of true love.
18) His girl Friday
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1940
Language
English
Description
An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses dirty tricks to keep his ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring and marrying a mama's boy.
19) Father Goose
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A man living in isolation on an island during WWII deals with a school teacher and her group of students that invade his private paradise.
20) Indiscreet
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress. The fact that he's married doesn't stop the love-struck pair from falling into a passionate affair. But it turns out that the actress isn't the only one with the talent for role-playing--her married lover is actually a single playboy with no intentions of settling down. When his secret is revealed, she decides to give her Romeo a taste of his own medicine."--Container....
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