Written by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde
Starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant
This is such a fun movie. It's really loopy -- it's starts silly, and stays silly all the way to the end.
Hawks is clearly having a ball, Katherine Hepburn gets to break all the rules about her persona, and Cary Grant -- who I think is underrated as a physical comedian -- gets to do all kinds of schtick. Basically every character in the movie is out there, which adds to the fun.
There's also a reference to The Awful Truth: when Katherine Hepburn is explaining that they're in the Leopard Gang, she says that Cary Grant's nickname in the gang is "Jerry the Nipper"; he exclaims that this is from a motion picture that she saw. And it's The Awful Truth, in which Irene Dunne claims that Cary Grant's nickname is Jerry the Nipper. (I've never heard a quote about this, but I am sure that Hawks loved The Awful Truth, both from this reference and from his casting of Ralph Bellamy as the odd man out in His Girl Friday.)
One of the older members of The Pantheon.
 |
| Jerry the Nipper and Swinging Door Susie |
No comments:
Post a Comment