Word: mccarey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once Upon A Honeymoon (RKO Radio). In this all-out attempt to break back into big-time production after a lean season, RKO's headmen took no chances. They brought able Author-Director-Producer Leo McCarey (Love Affair, Make Way for Tomorrow) out of two years of fruitless bondage to erratic Producer Howard Hughes. Ginger Rogers, who can pick & choose her vehicles, thought the story was too good to pass up. Gary Grant was paid a reputed $175,000 to play opposite her. Such a lustrous combination ought to have worked well, but it does not work as well...
Like many another successful director (Frank Capra, Leo McCarey, William Wyler, etc.), Stevens learned his cinema technique on the roughhouse, two-reel comedy lots, where everyone from prop boy to producer had a hand in the story and no one knew how it was going to end. That is known as "shooting off the cuff," and Stevens does just that today with most of his pictures...
...Favorite Wife is the latest offering of the husband & wife script-writing team of Bella & Samuel Spewack (Boy Meets Girl), the latest comedy collaboration of Gary Grant, Irene Dunne and Producer Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth). It is also the latest variation on Too Many Husbands, though this time it is the wife (Irene Dunne) who returns after she has been declared legally dead, finds that her husband has married again that morning...