Romance
The African Queen
War in Africa and war between a disreputable captain of a steamboat and a prim and disapproving Christian lady.
Directed by John Huston. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
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The age of innocence
Romance in 19th century New York. Newland Archer is going to marry May Welland but is in love with Countess Olenska.
Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Daniel Day Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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Amelie
Amelie dedicates herself to helping others find love and happiness. But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Starring Audrey Tautou.
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Annie Hall
New York comedian Alvy Singer recalls the ups and downs in the love affair with Allison. Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Diane Keaton and Paul Simon.
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Brief encounter
A proper British housewife gets a piece of grit in her eye and falls desperately in love with the kind stranger who removes it.
Directed by David Lean. Starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.
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Casablanca
The most classic of them all. Former lovers Rick and Ilsa collide once again in the fraught atmosphere of war-torn Casablanca.
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
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Four weddings and a funeral
Charles is serial monogamist. He meets an attractive American at a wedding and falls in love with her, but his inability to express his feelings gets in his way of true bliss.
Directed by Mike Newell. Starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell.
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Gone with the wind
The largest grossing movie in history. The love between the selfish Scarlett O’Hara and the macho Rhett Butler during the civil war.
Directed by Victor Fleming. Starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.
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The graduate
Ben is seduced by a woman twice his age: a friend of the family, Mrs. Robinson. He embarks on an affair but later falls for her daughter, Elaine.
Directed by Mike Nichols. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross.
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Groundhog day
Sarcastic weather man Phil finds himself trapped in a time loop on Groundhog day.
Directed by Harold Ramis. Starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell.
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It’s a wonderful life
George Bailey is a man who sacrificed his dreams to help his hometown. Faced with a financial and legal crisis, he is contemplating suicide. But then an angel comes to the rescue.
Directed by Frank Capra. Starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.
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My fair lady
The big screen adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, which is in itself a reworking of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
Directed by George Cukor. Starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
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Pride and prejudice
The adventures of the five Bennet sisters and their attempts to find husbands an a financially secure future.
Directed by Simon Langton. Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
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Roman Holiday
Princess Anne is on a European diplomatic tour. During the stop in Rome, she sneaks out of the embassy, meets reporter Joe Bradley and together they go on a holiday.
Directed by William Wyler. Starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory peck.
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The rules of the game
La regle du jeu. The rules of the love game in pre-war France ordered by ideas of appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
Directed by Jean Renoir. Starring Nora Gregor.
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Singing in the rain
Hollywood’s changeover from silents to talkies is the backdrop for this musical. Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love.
Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds
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Titanic
The romance of a lowly aspiring artist and a beautiful socialite aboard the unsinkable but doomed ocean liner.
Directed by James Cameron. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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Spotlight
Cary Grant
Remarkable:
Cary pictured on a 37¢ USA postage stamp in October 2002
Born:
January 18, 1904
Born as:
Archibald Alec Leach
Died:
November 29, 1986
Archibald ran away from home at 14 to join a traveling acrobatic troupe as song-and-dance man. In 1920, Leach traveled to the United States with a select group of boys from the troupe. This was followed by Broadway musicals, operettas and supporting roles for Paramount.
His career boost came, after a name change, with She done him wrong (1933) co-starring Mae West. In 1937, Grant's contract with the studio expired, and he was free to choose his own projects. And so he picked some successful screwball comedy's as The awful truth (1937), Bringing up baby (1938) and Holiday (1938).
In the forties and fifties Cary managed to balance a mix of drama, comedy and romance. Suspicion (1941) was the first of four films that Grant made with Alfred Hitchcock Over the next 18 years, the actor and director collaborated on Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). Cary retired from the screen in 1966.
Academy awards
1970 Honorary Award
1945 Nominated Oscar best actor for: None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
1942 Nominated Oscar best actor for: Penny Serenade (1941)
Selected Movies:
- North by Northwest (1959)
- Notorious (1946)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
Books:
Warren G. Harris -> Cary Grant: A Touch of Elegance (1987)
Donald Deschner -> The Films of Cary Grant (1973/1995)
Graham McCann -> Cary Grant: A Class Apart (1996)
Richard Schickel -> Cary Grant (1983/1998)