1940's CLASSIC DRAMA DVD: NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART (1944) CARY GRANT Ethel Barr

Barrymore plays Grant's dying mother in this sentimental drama about family devotion in the face of poverty. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Actor--Cary Grant. Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress--Ethel Barrymore.

Down-and-out Londoner Ernie Mott makes the best of things - finding love here, dabbling in crime there. Still, there's a core of decency in Ernie. But a world of poverty and despair has little use for decency. Cary Grant plays Ernie in a milestone work set just before World War II. Gone is the usual Grant elegance. Instead, wistful Cockney Ernie is closer to the star's 'umble roots and Grant took great pride in his performance, which earned him an Academy Award(r) nomination as Best Actor. He also helped lure Ethel Barrymore back to Hollywood, and she responded vibrantly with 1944's Oscar(r)-winning Best Supporting Actress portrayal of Ernie's dying mother. Let the moods of this masterwork wash over you. In its ebb and flow you'll find a moving eloquence close to the heart of the film's leading man.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.This product is expected to play back in DVD Video "play only" devices, and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives.

Down-and-out Londoner Ernie Mott makes the best of things - finding love here, dabbling in crime there. Still, there's a core of decency in Ernie. But a world of poverty and despair has little use for decency. Cary Grant plays Ernie in a milestone work set just before World War II. Gone is the usual Grant elegance. Instead, wistful Cockney Ernie is closer to the star's 'umble roots and Grant took great pride in his performance, which earned him an Academy Award(r) nomination as Best Actor. He also helped lure Ethel Barrymore back to Hollywood, and she responded vibrantly with 1944's Oscar(r)-winning Best Supporting Actress portrayal of Ernie's dying mother. Let the moods of this masterwork wash over you. In its ebb and flow you'll find a moving eloquence close to the heart of the film's leading man.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.This product is expected to play back in DVD Video "play only" devices, and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives.

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Release Date: October 26, 1999

One of Cary Grant's most financially successful 1940s vehicles, MR. LUCKY finds Grant atypically cast as a shifty, out-for-number-one gambler. Having dodged the draft by adopting the identity of a dead man, Grant sets his sights on purchasing a fancy gambling ship. To raise the necessary funds, he pretends to be working hand in glove with the American War Relief society. Once he meets Laraine Day, however, Grant is seized by an uncontrollable bout of honesty. It takes him awhile, but he finally does the right thing. The film is framed in flashback, as old seaman Charles Bickford explains why a tearful Laraine Day waits at the dock each evening for a certain ship to come in. Also in the cast is Paul Stewart as a cold-eyed but nonetheless semi-comic hoodlum, and Kay Johnson and Gladys Cooper as elegant but gullible society women. The best aspect of this breezy comedy-drama is Grant's cockney propensity for "rhyming slang, " a running gag better heard than described. MR. LUCKY was later adapted into a TV series i

THE AWFUL TRUTH: In one of the supreme screwball comedies young husband and wife Jerry and Lucy Cary Grant and Irene Dunne each suspicious that the other is having an affair start divorce proceedings and see each other only when Jerry visits their dog who is held in joint custody. The wonderful Leo McCarey directed THE AWFUL TRUTH which was based on the 1922 play by Arthur Richman. HIS GIRL FRIDAY: In Howard Hawks's screwball masterpiece adapted from the stage play THE FRONT PAGE by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur star reporter Hildy Johnson Rosalind Russell once married to suave editor Walter Burns Cary Grant plans to leave the stressful newspaper world behind and marry a boring insurance agent. Walter won't reveal his feelings for Hildy but tries to keep her from leaving by convincing her to cover one last story a politically motivated execution. Then the convict manages to escape and Hildy finds herself working alongside Walter to break the story wide open. HIS GIRL FRIDAY is a loose freewheeling gem featuring some of the fastest dialogue ever filmed peppered with inspired ad-libbing by Grant and Russell each appearing at comedic high points in their careers. HOLIDAY: Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant team up in this classic George Cukor comedy about love that finally finds its mark. Johnny Grant has just met the girl of his dreams so he proposes; she happily accepts. However he soon discovers that his lovely bride-to-be Julia Doris Nolan comes from a wealthy Park Avenue family with a father who likes to make all the decisions and whom she seems incapable of defying. Her unconventional sister Linda Hepburn knows she wants something different from a mapped-out life; she also discovers she's falling in love with Johnny. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS: Geoff Carter Cary Grant is the head of a crumbling air freight service that's in desperate need of a replacement pilot. He is forced to hire a discredited aviator Richard Barthelmess who arrives with his wife Rita Hayworth Carter's ex-lover. Meanwhile traveler Bonnie Lee Jean Arthur tries to get close to the emotionally closed-off Carter. THE TALK OF THE TOWN: George Stevens's last film with Cary Grant represents yet another hit in his string of classic comedies. Grant stars as Leopold Dilg a political activist who is wrongly indicted for arson and murder when a factory worker dies in a mill fire in the town of Sweetbrook. Believing that he'll be executed if he remains in jail he escapes and breaks into a cottage that schoolteacher Nora Shelley Jean Arthur is preparing for Professor Michael Lightcap Ronald Coleman the dean of a law school.

One of Cary Grant's most financially successful 1940s vehicles, MR. LUCKY finds Grant atypically cast as a shifty, out-for-number-one gambler. Having dodged the draft by adopting the identity of a dead man, Grant sets his sights on purchasing a fancy gambling ship. To raise the necessary funds, he pretends to be working hand in glove with the American War Relief society. Once he meets Laraine Day, however, Grant is seized by an uncontrollable bout of honesty. It takes him awhile, but he finally does the right thing. The film is framed in flashback, as old seaman Charles Bickford explains why a tearful Laraine Day waits at the dock each evening for a certain ship to come in. Also in the cast is Paul Stewart as a cold-eyed but nonetheless semi-comic hoodlum, and Kay Johnson and Gladys Cooper as elegant but gullible society women. The best aspect of this breezy comedy-drama is Grant's cockney propensity for "rhyming slang, " a running gag better heard than described. MR. LUCKY was later adapted into a TV series i

CARY GRANT THE GENTLEMEN'S COLLECTION Charismatic and charming ....dashing and debonair Cary Grant exemplified the sophisticated leading man role during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Demonstrating remarkable talent and versatility throughout his career, he became the ultimate mi star in the eyes at his colleagues and in the hearts of his fans around the world. AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER Although each is engaged to someone else, Nickie (Grant) and Terry (Deborah Kerr ) fall in love. They agree to rendezvous six months later...but fate has other plans for them. THE BISHOP'S WIFE A young clergyman (David Niven) has been neglecting his Wife (Loretta Young) and now only divine intervention - in the form of suave angel (Grant) - can save the marriage. BORN TO BE BAD In this gripping classic. Cary Grant stars as a dairy farmer whose kindness toward an unmarried woman (Loretta Young) and her son results in betrayal.. I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE Hilarity ensues when a French officer (grant) marries an American WAC (Ann Sheridan) and must disguise himself as a war bride in order to return to the US. KISS THEM FOR ME In this lighthearted wartime comedy, three Navy men orchestrate a shore leave for themselves in San Francisco, where they set out to make the celebration last: as long as possible! PEOPLE WILL TALK In this well-crafted social comedy, a lovable doctor/professor (Grant) becomes the subject of a McCarthy-style investigation initiated by a jealous colleague (Hume Cronyn). THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION Cary Grant frank Sinatra and Sophia loran deliver an outstanding performance in this wartime classic about a band of guerillas up against the onslaught of Napoleon's forces in Spain.

Director: Clifford Odets; Stars: Cary Grant; Release Date: April 14, 1998