Vacation, Time Off, Sabbatical

Holiday is coming out on DVD - and not in a box set. This 1938 George Cukor film, startting Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Edward Everett Horton comes out December 5. The studios released it a few months back in a Cary box set...with a bunch of movies I already owned.

If you haven't seen Holiday, I highly recommend it. It's classic screwball Cary - he does some physical comedy that would probably break a neck or a leg if you or I tried it. Lew Ayres is also a fun watch as the family drunk.

Wild Ties & Broadway Scripts

What else could I be talking about other than The Saxon Charm - 1948, Robert Montgomery & Harry Morgan.


Larger photo here. I do love the ties...

Retail Bob

I never knew Macy's had stockholders. From Time Magazine, November 24, 1952:

When stockholders filed into R. H. Macy & Co.'s annual meeting in Manhattan last week, they spotted a new, but familiar face on the board: Actor Robert Montgomery, who was elected to Macy's board last September. In no time at all, Bob Montgomery found himself playing a big scene in which he was cast as the villain. What, demanded heckling stockholders, was he doing there anyway?

Replied Montgomery: "I've been in the business and professional field for 30 years. Whatever my talents are, they are at Macy's service." To which a lady replied dryly from the floor: "Thank you, Mr. Montgomery. I see you still have the gift of gab." Then, Lewis D. Gilbert, who owns stock in 600-odd corporations, including twelve shares in Macy's, and makes an avocation of harassing corporate boards, threw a question at President Jack I. Straus: "What does Mr. Montgomery know about merchandising?" Straus tried to defend Montgomery's qualifications as a director. After all, he said, several of the other directors had not known much about retailing when they had joined the board. Snorted Gilbert: "Maybe that's what's wrong with Macy's." . . .

More Color

Continuing the vintage color theme - Robert Tayor & Barbara Stanwyck.

What a Little Color Can Do

I just have to post this photo that Violaviolet found - I mean, how many times do you find a vintage color photo of one of your favorite classic stars? Think about it. And then ask yourself this - is that person what you imagined he/she would be in color? Hmm?

I can probably count on one hand how many color photos I have seen of Bob (not colorized) and I'd say most, if not all, were from the 1950s. *Sigh*

Robert Taylor....yep, seen a few. Robert Young, nothing (I could go on...).