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An Actor to Remember
Cary Grant film series at BAM
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Cary Grant was everything an actor should be: Charming, charismatic, funny, good looking and dramatic at all the right moments. In a recent post about actors who retired at a relatively early age, I said of Grant: “Very few actors have as many as great films on their resume as Grant; His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace, To Catch a Thief, An Affair to Remember, North by Northwest, and Charade are all classics of cinema, and all star Grant.”
I re-post that not only to get hits for a previous article (well, maybe), but to bring attention to the greatness that is Grant. There’s a reason the American Film Institute ranked him the second best actor of all-time, behind only Humphrey Bogart. Howard Hawks, who directed Grant in His Girl Friday, once said, “Cary Grant was so far the best that there isn’t anybody to be compared to him.” And this coming from a man who worked with Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall and, yes, Bogie.
From July 9-29, BAMcinématek presents “Cary Grant 2,”a 20-film follow-up to last year’s “Cary Grant” series (the titles are to the point, aren’t they?). The following movies will be shown at BAM Rose Cinemas over the next three weeks:
July 9
Thirty Day Princess
4:30, 6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 10
Charade
4:30, 6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 11
North by Northwest
2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 p.m.
July 12
She Done Him Wrong
6:50, 9:30 p.m.
July 13
Bringing Up Baby
6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 15
Once Upon a Time
4:30, 6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 16
Once Upon a Honeymoon
4:30, 6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 17
Destination Tokyo
3, 6, 9 p.m.
July 18
I Was a Male War Bride
3, 6, 9 p.m.
July 19
Crisis
4:30, 6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 20
Walk, Don’t Run
4:30, 6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 22
Gunga Din
4:30, 6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 23
An Affair to Remember
4:30, 6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 24
Alice in Wonderland
3, 6, 9 p.m.
July 25
Notorious
2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 26
This is the Night
6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 27
Wedding Present
6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 28
Monkey Business
6:50, 9:15 p.m.
July 29
Arsenic and Old Lace
4:30, 6:50, 9:15 p.m.
Our only question: When’s “Cary Grant 3″?
Tickets can be purchased here. And if by the end of July, you want to be Cary Grant, we don’t blame you. “Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.” Know who said that? Cary Grant.