Last Movie You Watched

[Karl Henning]

I still recall seeing the poster for this movie in the newspaper, with the skewed north-by-northwest grid over the U.N. building and Cary Grant being chased by a bi-plane!   

"You won't understand what's going on," said my mother, despite my insistence that I would indeed understand it!

I had to wait a few years to be thrilled by it!

Two years later, I was allowed to watch Ben-Hur with my mother!  (At age 9 I understood everything, and I know that wanting to work in Classics was a seed planted by that movie!  The already growing seed of wanting to compose music was further nurtured by Miklos Rozsa's glorious score!)


By chance, we just finished an early movie with Cary Grant: Sylvia Scarlett.

The opening has a scene of silent-movie melodrama with Katharine Hepburn and Edmund Gwenn.  But it soon gets going with more farcical material.


Not as wild and witty as The Philadelphia Story or His Girl Friday, but the movie has its wild and witty moments.

Note that Katharine Hepburn was THE STAR of this movie! 

Cary Grant: "Tell me, why are you so good to me?"
Eva Marie Saint: "Shall I climb up and tell you why?"