Top cast:Herbert Prior,Florence Lawrence,Arthur V. Johnson
Director:Jeff Wamester
Genre:Sci-Fi
Region:Finland
Year:2011
Storyline:They met at the code-named Akvarium Cafe, a glass-fronted restaurant with a giant aquarium tank that comprised part of the cafe""s exterior wall.This screwball masterpiece lacked even a single Academy Award nomination.Cary Grant""s un-nominated performance as the suave, calculating and exploitative managing editor, who attempts to lure and maneuver his ex-wife (and star reporter) back with the opportunity o write a breaking, front page news-story, is atour de forceof comedy - combining cartoonish faces, silent-film pantomime, slapstick, witty word-play, and irony into one remarkable characterization.How can you?Cathy: What do you know about Heathcliff?Edgar: All I need or want to know.Cathy: He was my friend long before you.Edgar: That blackguard! [meaning ""scoundrel""]Cathy: Blackguard and all.He belongs under this roof and you speak well of him or get out.Edgar: Are you out of your senses?Cathy: Get out I said, or stop calling those I love names.Edgar: ""Those you love?""Cathy: Yes! Yes!Edgar: Cathy, what possesses you? Do you realize the things you""re saying?Cathy: I see that I hate you.Peter and Miraz would duel one-on-one together "in order to prevent the abominable effusion of blood.In more modern times,Coming Home (1978)portrayed he same plight of the returning serviceman.The major stars, who each gave the performance of their lives in this Best Picture winner, were:Al Stephenson (Fredric March), the eldest returning veteran, an alcoholic Army Sergeant married to loyal Milly (Myrna Loy)Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), a handsome Air Force bombadier involved in two romances - with party-girl wife Marie (Virginia Mayo), and in a new love relationship with Al""s daughter Peggy (Teresa Wright)Homer Parrish (Harold Russell almost uncredited in the film, a WWII vet) as a sailor, the hometown""s former football hero, involved with fiancee/girlfriend Wilma (Cathy O""Donnell)The germinal idea for the literate, meticulously-constructed film came from aTimeMagazine pictorial article (August 7, 1944) that was then re-fashioned into a novel titledGlory for Meby commissioned author MacKinlay Kantor.