There will never be another Cary Grant!

After raising 6 children, I still miss the noise around the house, so you can usually find the TV on or Stereo playing because I don't like the quiet. So today, while I was cleaning the house (Thursday is my BIG cleaning day), I was happy to find one of my all-time favorite Cary Grant movies playing on TCM. It is "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer". It stars, besides CG, the ever beautiful, Myrna Loy and a rarely seen teenager, Shirley Temple. It is hilarious and I decided I wanted to list all my favorite Cary Grant movies for those who haven't seen a lot of his work.

In the "Suspense" genre these are my top favorites that you could watch:

North By Northwest

Charade

Notorious

To Catch a Thief

and

Suspicion
(These aren't in any particular order because I can't decide which I like best)

North by Northwest

In the "Comedies", there are so many "bust-a-gut-from laughing" so I listed some of my top vote getter's. Again in no particular order because it is too hard to pick a favorite:

Monkey Business

The Awful Truth
Bringing up Baby

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Father Goose

His Girl Friday

I was a Male War Bride

My Favorite Wife

Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House

&

The Philadelphia Story

Monkey Business (with a very young Marilyn Monroe)

Then of course you have his romantic movies, although all of the comedies also have a lot of romance in them but are more for the laughs.

Bringing up Baby

Romantic movies are:

An Affair to Remember (sob-sob)

Indiscreet

Houseboat

The Bishops Wife

Holiday

(this next one is rarely seen but worth finding-)

Every Girl Should be Married

Operation Petticoat

That Touch of Mink

Penny Serenade

and his last movie that he made--

Walk Don't Run

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Philadelphia Story

His Girl Friday

I have seen all of these movies multiple times and I laugh and cry still in all the same places. I don't think there will ever be another actor as classy as him although every "new" actor seems to be compared to him. The movies that Hollywood has tried to remake of some of these classics never even come close to the original. There should be a law against re-making any of the "classics". Not just Cary Grant's but so many of the other classic movies from the 30's-50's.

So if you can't find anything good on TV (which is usually the case), and you haven't seen some of these movies, try one of them and I promise you will be rewarded with great entertainment!