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Starring Cary Grant TCM, Beginning at 7 p.m.
Turner Classic Movies sends off November with a night of just a few of the many memorable films made by iconic Hollywood star Cary Grant. The five-film lineup starts with the 1964 romantic comedy Father
Goose (pictured), in which Walter (Grant) is persuaded to live on an island alone and spot aircraft at the beginning of World War II. But he ends up having to protect seven schoolgirls and their teacher, played by Leslie Caron. The film won the Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Motion Picture Musical/ Comedy at the Golden Globes. Next is the 1957 romantic drama favorite An Affair to
Remember, in which a man and woman (played by Grant and Deborah Kerr) fall in love after meeting on a cruise and promise to meet again six months later atop the Empire State Building. Considered one of the most romantic films of all time, An Affair to Remember was nominated for four Oscars. Following that, in the 1952 comedy Monkey
Business, Grant plays a scientist who accidentally drinks his “fountain of youth” formula when it is misplaced by a chimpanzee in the lab, giving him rejuvenating effects that lead to hilarious results. Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe also star in the film that marked the fifth and final collaboration between Grant and director Howard Hawks. Another Hawks-directed film, the 1949 comedy I Was a Male War Bride is up next. It follows an American lieutenant (Ann Sheridan) who marries a French captain (Grant) in post-war Germany and his attempts to find a way to go home with her to the U.S. under the War Brides Act. Concluding the evening is the Oscar-nominated 1940 screwball comedy My Favorite Wife. After spending several years shipwrecked and missing, a woman (Irene Dunne) is rescued and returns home to find that her husband (Grant) is now married to another woman (Gail Patrick). — Evan McLean