The Awful Truth: Warriners at War

Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Photo: Columbia Columbia chief Harry Cohn was not happy with Leo McCarey’s behavior on the set of The Awful Truth. Cohn thought the director was…

Gunga Din: Three Amigos

Cary Grant and Sam Jaffe. Photo: RKO There are certain film classics from 1939 that modern audiences struggle with because of cultural sensitivity. The depiction of the old South in…

Bringing Up Baby: David, Susan and the Big Cat

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Photo: RKO There are some people who love making the argument that sometimes critics are ”wrong” whenever a panned movie becomes a box-office hit. As…

Notorious: Spy Games

Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: RKO In the mid-1940s, the legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick had plenty of opinions about the casting of Alfred Hitchcock's upcoming thriller Notorious.…

North by Northwest: Rushmore Rumble

Cary Grant. Photo: MGM According to one biography on Alfred Hitchcock, it was Bernard Herrmann who introduced screenwriter Ernest Lehman to the director. They hit it off and decided to…