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thebarroomortheboy · 4 months

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During the scene where James Stewart hiccups when drunk, you can see Cary Grant looking down and grinning. Since the hiccup wasn't scripted, Grant was on the verge of breaking out laughing and had to compose himself quickly. Stewart (apparently spontaneously) thought of hiccuping in the drunk scene, without telling Grant. When he began hiccuping, Grant turned to Stewart, saying, "Excuse me." Grant turned his head to stifle his laughter and said, "Nothing". The scene required only one take.

CARY GRANT and JAMES STEWART in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) | dir. George Cukor

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pelopides · 8 months

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Gregory Peck & Ava Gardner THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO, 1952

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transjudas · 3 months

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Excerpts from the Vanity Fair article about Cary Grant and Randolph Scott's relatonship / Grant and Scott in Hot Saturday and My Favorite Wife / various publicity photos of Grant and Scott during the time they lived together.

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soupy-sez · 7 months

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EDGE OF THE CITY (1957) dir. Martin Ritt

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gene-forrester · 2 years

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Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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thebarroomortheboy · 1 month

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John Steinbeck was particularly enamored with the performance of Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, feeling that he perfectly encapsulated everything he wanted to convey with this character. The two became good friends. Indeed Fonda did a reading at Steinbeck's funeral.

HENRY FONDA in THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) | dir. John Ford

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thebarroomortheboy · 8 months

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The scene in which Quasimodo rings the cathedral bells for Esmeralda was shot the day World War II began in Europe. The director and star were so overwhelmed, the scene took on a new meaning, with Charles Laughton ringing the bells frantically and William Dieterle forgetting to yell "cut." Finally, the actor just stopped ringing when he became too tired to continue. Later, Laughton said, "I couldn't think of Esmeralda in that scene at all. I could only think of the poor people out there, going in to fight that bloody, bloody war! To arouse the world, to stop that terrible butchery! Awake! Awake! That's what I felt when I was ringing the bells!"

CHARLES LAUGHTON (Quasimodo) and MAUREEN O' HARA (Esmerelda) in the HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME (1939) | dir. William Dieterle

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thebarroomortheboy · 11 months

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JAMES STEWART and JEAN ARTHUR in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) | dir. Frank Capra

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thebarroomortheboy · 1 month

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HENRY FONDA (Charles Pike) and BARBARA STANWYCK (Jean Harrington) in THE LADY EVE (1941) | dir. Preston Sturges

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thebarroomortheboy · 20 days

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OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND in DODGE CITY (1939) | dir. Michael Curtiz

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thebarroomortheboy · 1 month

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"Please don't give up. We'll start all over again. Just you and I. It isn't too late. The John Doe movement isn't dead yet. You see, John, it isn't dead or they wouldn't be here. It's alive in them. They kept it alive by being afraid. That's why they came up here. Oh, darling!... We can start clean now. Just you and I. It'll grow John, and it'll grow big because it'll be honest this time. Oh, John, if it's worth dying for, it's worth living for. Oh please, John... You wanna be honest, don't ya? Well, you don't have to die to keep the John Doe ideal alive. Someone already died for that once. The first John Doe. And he's kept that ideal alive for nearly 2,000 years. It was He who kept it alive in them. And He'll go on keeping it alive for ever and always - for every John Doe movement these men kill, a new one will be born. That's why those bells are ringing, John. They're calling to us, not to give up but to keep on fighting, to keep on pitching. Oh, don't you see darling? This is no time to give up. You and I, John, we... Oh, no, no, John. If you die, I want to die too. Oh, oh, I love you."

MEET JOHN DOE (1941) | dir. Frank Capra

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thebarroomortheboy · 4 months

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BARBARA STANWYCK and FRED MACMURRAY in REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) | dir. Mitchell Leisen

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thebarroomortheboy · 4 months

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Reportedly the favorite film of Francis Ford Coppola. When he first met Michael Powell, in a New York restaurant, Coppola introduced himself by walking across the room singing Sabu's song "I want to be a sailor" at the top of his lungs to show he was a fan.

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940) | dir. Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan