Couple of favorites from Mr. Class...Cary Grant.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948): A simple task..building a house. But as usual, Cary have to go thru the [hilarious] motions.
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North by Northwest (1959): He came out of retirement to make this movie. The question is...what was he doing retiring in the first place.
A definitive Cary Grant performance.
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Father Goose (1964) : As the unshaven, messy misanthrope Walter Eckland, a World War II-era beach bum who monitors Japanese air activity for the Australian navy in exchange for booze, Grant makes a convincingly hard-bitten, hard-drinking antihero.
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Cary Grant ake Archibald Leech....
A great actor who, despite all his great work, couldv'e done more. I never saw a film he was in where I didn't feel I was watching Cary Grant play someone. Cary playing a playboy, Cary playing a submarine commander, Cary playing a drunk. This is no a knock againt him, don't get me wrong but he never stepped "outside" that personae and I guess that worked for him.
I admire actors that disappear in their work. Paul Muni, Robert Donat, Sir Lawrence Olivier and my current fave, Johnny Depp. Paul Muni didn't play Scarface, he WAS Scarface. Johnny Deep didn't play Edward Scissorhands, he was the character.
Jus my observation...
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