Just finished publishing a Top 10 Cary Grant Movies You Tube video. Publishing a You Tube video is not really something new for us…as we have done a few videos over the last year or so. The fact that we finally figured out how to make a video while using actually movie scenes versus still shots from the movie….is the big news….at least in our little part of the world.
So…since we are so happy with our latest video…we thought we would share the video here…..mainly because our website gets considerable more traffic than our You Tube video channel. Any thoughts on the video would greatly be appreciated. To see our UMR Cary Grant page follow this link…Ranking 82 Cary Grant Movies.
Our first You Tube video using real Cary Grant movie clips.
Cary Grant made many great movies….so picking a personal Top Ten for him is very very tough…but here goes my list in alphabetical order.
1. The Awful Truth (1937)….Cary Grant and Irene Dunne made a great screen couple, this was their first of three movies together. Grant is hilarious in the movie. Movie was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar® and won the director, Leo McCarey an Oscar® for Best Director.
2. Charade (1963)…..Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn team up in this almost Hitchcock like movie. Is Grant the good guy or the bad guy? A great supporting cast in James Coburn, George Kennedy and Walter Matthau.
3. Gunga Din (1939)…Gunga Din was one of my father’s favorite Cary Grant movies….so this story of soldiers in 19th century India makes my list….great action, great fun and a terrific ending.
4. Father Goose (1964)…Father Goose is a movie can I watch again and again. Grant is stuck on an island with a school teacher(Leslie Caron) and her 7 students(all girls) during World War II. Great lines throughout this movie.
5. His Girl Friday (1940)….one of the few times that Cary Grant got to be instigator of the comedy mayhem….versus being the one that had to react to all the craziness. A fast pace, fast talking comedy classic.
6. My Favorite Wife (1940)….his second movie with Irene Dunne and another classic. Dunne is assumed to have perished in a boat sinking seven years ago, she is rescued and returns home just as Grant remarries….and then the fun begins.
7. North by Northwest (1959) ….Grant’s fourth and final film with Alfred Hitchcock…. great scenes throughout the movie like the crop dusting plane, the auction scene and of course the Mount Rushmore finale.
8. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)….one of his lesser known classics from the great movie year of 1939…Howard Hawks directed this story about pilots that risk their lives flying in South America…a great supporting cast of Rita Hayworth, Jean Arthur and Thomas Mitchell.
9. The Philadelphia Story (1940)….Grant and Katharine Hepburn made 4 movies together…this by far is their best movie together….and yet James Stewart is the one that won the Oscar® for this movie…..this movie gets better every year.
10. To Catch A Thief (1955)…Grant thought his movie career was over….and then Hitchcock talked him out of semi-retirement to play a cat burglar nicknamed “The Cat”. This movie gives you a Cary Grant and Grace Kelly falling in love on screen and off screen…direction by the great Alfred Hitchcock….with the French Riviera as a backdrop…what more could you want?
Other great movies that just missed my Top Ten cut….Notorious, Operation Petticoat, Arsenic and Old Lace, An Affair To Remember and Bringing Up Baby.
Cary Grant finds his way in “The Awful Truth”. I find this his most endearing performance…1937 with the wonderful Irene Dunne. (He’s not bad with Irene in “Penny Serenade” either. He got an academy award nomination in that one.)
Hey astasmom….I like all of the Cary Grant/Irene Dunne movies. Of the three I would have to say that The Awful Truth and My Favorite Wife are my favorites. Grant’s Oscar nomination for Penny Serenade was his first….but during that awesome movie time for Grant…I would put Penny Serenade well behind some of his alltime great performances…thanks for checking out my Grant video.
I liked father goose.
I also liked That Touch of Mink.
Hey Ehart. Awesome that you like Father Goose. I think I re-watch Father Goose more than any other movie he made….and he made so classics. Not as much of a fan of That Touch of Mink. Thanks for stopping by and checking out our Top 10.
I disagree with the top. I’d pick Notorious
Notorious almost got the top spot. The slightly better reviews gave the top movie the edge but it was very close. Actually pretty sure this one of the closest finishing in the close to 300 pages I have done over the last 5 years. Thanks for checking out my Grant video…it was greatly appreciated.
So which would be your favorite?
Hey Susan. One of my dad’s favorite movies was North By Northwest so I have always liked that movie. The movie I watch the most is Father Goose. Charade would be a close second in most repeat viewings. Notorious seems to get better with each new viewing. The beauty of his awesome career…is that is a very tough question to answer. The first time I saw The Philadelphia Story I did not like that one at all….now I think it is one of his best. His Girl Friday, The Awful Truth and My Favorite Wife are favorites too.
North by Northwest is my favorite Cary Grant film, glad to see it top the moviescore. I watch it every Xmas, usually Boxing Day. I’ve never seen Night and Day didn’t know it was so successful. Cary Grant as Cole Porter, might be worth a look. Operation Petticoat his biggest hit eh interesting. Notorious is another favorite of mine. Charade was a lot of fun. Very nicely done Bruce, plenty of facts too. Voted Up. Jimmy Stewart next?
Hey Steve….thanks for checking out my latest video. Glad you agree with moviescore….the few the proud times for my movie ranking equation…lol. Night and Day is actually not very good…one of my least favorite Cary Grant movies. But the combo of Grant as Porter was too much for the viewing public to ignore. Porter on the movie about his life…”It has to be good…because none of it is true.” I think the Kevin Kline Cole Porter is better and more accurate. Operation Petticoat was a beast at the box office….one of the biggest hits of the 1950s….and for awhile it was on the Biggest hits of all-time lists too. Jimmy Stewart might be a good one. I have actually found box office numbers on some of his early movies so I need to add those to his movie page. Thanks for your thoughts.