“If I was black and blue, it was Gene.” Cyd Charisse –
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Hawks’ friend (and Hepburn’s sometime-boyfriend) Howard Hughes finally suggested Cary Grant for the role. Grant had just finished shooting his breakthrough romantic comedy The Awful Truth, and Hawks may have seen a rough cut of the unreleased film. Grant then had a non-exclusive, four-picture deal with RKO for $50,000 per…
BIRDS DO IT BEES DO IT
Sugarplum! If your face launched a movie franchise you’d do it too, and by that I mean cosmetic surgery. Let’s do the math: multiple film episodes can take over a decade to make. Not many people launch their careers as early as the leads in the Hogwarts series. To age…