Observations: Cary was a former English music hall entertainer. He sang and danced as part of the Pink Pierrots (French clowns) in the Katharine Hepburn movie Sylvia Scarlett (1935) (see my review about that movie).
Cary hums some music in the bathtub, in The Howards of Virginia. I enjoyed that. Recorded it on DVR; will watch it again. Regarding Cary jumping all over the place, get over it. He was famous, and you were not. He was a fun dancer. Maybe he just wanted to get a little fun out of this sometimes very serious story.
This movie was five years after Sylvia Scarlett. It was 1940, the year of Cary's The Philadelphia Story (again with Katharine Hepburn). If you want to see dapper Cary, see Philadelphia Story.
Cary was absolutely dapper in The Howards of Virginia. When Tom Jefferson cleaned him up and put him into a proper Virginia planter's suit of clothing, Cary looked absolutely fabulous. You people my age may have thought grown-up Tom was familiar: Richard Carlson was on TV in the 1950s in the program I Led Three Lives.
Previous to The Howards of Virginia, Cary Grant had made some movies with that fabulous Mae West. In the pre-code 1933 She Done Him Wrong, Cary plays a seemingly innocent leader of a neighborhood mission (ala Salvation Army). He seems so naïve to Mae West. She keeps inviting him to "visit her", and he says he is so busy. She says, "I'll tell you your fortune." Mae West said she discovered Cary Grant.
Cary made a good frontiersman. He actually looked good in those buckskins. An actor has to do what the director directs. Cary even had the greasy unkempt hair to go along with the rural duds. To act against Cary's publicly-perceived suave persona in other films, this is what an actor has to do. He/she has to play against type, if the role calls for it. It rounds out an actor's portfolio.
If you want to see Cary Grant in another unusual costume, see Bringing Up Baby (1938), again with, who else? Katharine Hepburn. Cary wears a negligee.
10/10
Cary hums some music in the bathtub, in The Howards of Virginia. I enjoyed that. Recorded it on DVR; will watch it again. Regarding Cary jumping all over the place, get over it. He was famous, and you were not. He was a fun dancer. Maybe he just wanted to get a little fun out of this sometimes very serious story.
This movie was five years after Sylvia Scarlett. It was 1940, the year of Cary's The Philadelphia Story (again with Katharine Hepburn). If you want to see dapper Cary, see Philadelphia Story.
Cary was absolutely dapper in The Howards of Virginia. When Tom Jefferson cleaned him up and put him into a proper Virginia planter's suit of clothing, Cary looked absolutely fabulous. You people my age may have thought grown-up Tom was familiar: Richard Carlson was on TV in the 1950s in the program I Led Three Lives.
Previous to The Howards of Virginia, Cary Grant had made some movies with that fabulous Mae West. In the pre-code 1933 She Done Him Wrong, Cary plays a seemingly innocent leader of a neighborhood mission (ala Salvation Army). He seems so naïve to Mae West. She keeps inviting him to "visit her", and he says he is so busy. She says, "I'll tell you your fortune." Mae West said she discovered Cary Grant.
Cary made a good frontiersman. He actually looked good in those buckskins. An actor has to do what the director directs. Cary even had the greasy unkempt hair to go along with the rural duds. To act against Cary's publicly-perceived suave persona in other films, this is what an actor has to do. He/she has to play against type, if the role calls for it. It rounds out an actor's portfolio.
If you want to see Cary Grant in another unusual costume, see Bringing Up Baby (1938), again with, who else? Katharine Hepburn. Cary wears a negligee.
10/10