My Favorite Wife (1940)

My Favorite Wife (1940)

[6] Cary Grant plays a widower who remarries seven years after his first wife (Irene Dunne) disappears at sea. While on his honeymoon with wife number two (Gail Patrick), he's shocked to discover Dunne survived her ordeal and is ready…
The Awful Truth (1937)

The Awful Truth (1937)

[8] Irene Dunne and Cary Grant star as a couple who file for divorce, then proceed to thwart each other's attempts to socialize with new partners. Both are too proud to admit they still have feelings for the other until…
An Affair to Remember (1957)

An Affair to Remember (1957)

[6] Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet aboard an oceanliner and fall in love, despite the fact they are both already in relationships with partners waiting for them stateside. I like the first half of An Affair to Remember. Grant…
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

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Leo McCarey won the best director Oscar for The Awful Truth, released the same year, but told the Academy they’d awarded him for the wrong picture. He may be right. Make Way for Tomorrow is a disarming, bonafide love story between an elderly couple (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) who are forced to separate when the bank forecloses on their home. The film is remarkably restrained and unsentimental for its time. The characters constantly mask their true feelings, fending off melodrama by acting against our immediate expectations.