The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer

The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer


Starring:Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport, Johnny Sands, Don Beddoe, Lillian Randolph, Veda Ann Borg, Dan Tobin, Ransom M. Sherman, William Bakewell, Irving Bacon, Ian Bernard, Carol Hughes, William Hall, Gregory Gaye, Marilyn Mercer, William Forrest
Director: Irving Reis, Tex Avery
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
Through no fault of his own, artist and lady's man Richard Nugent finds a love-besotted teenage girl curled on his sofa. Through no fault of his own, the teen's sister is a judge who "sentences" thunderstruck Richard to date the girl until her schoolgirl crush wanes. Circumstances aren't kind to Richard. But they certainly are hilarious when Cary Grant plays Richard, Myrna Loy is the judge and Shirley Temple is the teen.
The Cary Grant Signature Collection (Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House / Destination Tokyo / The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer / My Favorite Wife / Night and Day)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Why can't they provide REgion free DVDs
  • Nice little set
  • Entertaining
  • Poor quality
  • Excellent Buy
 The Cary Grant Signature Collection (Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House / Destination Tokyo / The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer / My Favorite Wife / Night and Day)
Starring: Cary Grant , Myrna Loy , Melvyn Douglas , Reginald Denny , and Sharyn Moffett
Director: H.C. Potter , Delmer Daves , and Irving Reis
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B0001WTWYW
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Greatest movie star ever? How can you argue against Cary Grant, the graceful clown, the ironic romantic? Equally at home in an Alfred Hitchcock suspense piece or a Howard Hawks screwball comedy, the superb Mr. Grant (born Archie Leach) could handle just about anything. And it's a testament to his appeal that this boxed set, which contains not a single great movie, is nevertheless an entertaining catalog of Grant's splendid run during the 1940s.

The earliest picture, and a sheer delight, is 1940's My Favorite Wife, one of Grant's blissful pairings with the wonderful Irene Dunne. He's about to remarry when his first wife washes up again after having been lost on a desert island (with he-man Randolph Scott) for seven years. Destination Tokyo is a WWII submarine picture, with Grant as the stalwart skipper--slightly odd casting, but he brings it off with admirable professionalism. (The film's propagandistic jabs at demonizing the Japanese enemy have not aged well.)

Night and Day is one of those composer biographies that veers rather radically from reality, with Grant playing Cole Porter. A ton of great songs and the canny casting of Cary as the champagne-sophisticate Porter make it passably de-lovely, despite the whitewash of the composer's real-life story. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer puts Grant in deliciously antic mode, mooned over by teenager Shirley Temple but preferring the company of her older sister, Myrna Loy. He re-teams with Loy in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, an artless but regularly hilarious tale of Manhattanites whose Connecticut fixer-upper becomes a money pit. --Robert Horton

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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House The Bachelor and The Bobby-Soxer My Favorite Wife Destination Tokyo Night and Day

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Why can't they provide REgion free DVDs.......2007-06-23

I am one Cary Grant fan and it is distressing that I cannot view these products. Grant has fans worldwide!!!!

4 out of 5 stars Nice little set.......2007-06-14

I like the other Cary Grant box set better but this one is nice to have

5 out of 5 stars Entertaining .......2007-02-22

Thoroughly recommended. For lovers of old classics & Cary Grant these are a must to have in your library. I particularly enjoyed watching a much older Shirley Temple in The Batchelor & the Bobby Soxer.

2 out of 5 stars Poor quality.......2007-01-19

Item arrived in timely manner, but item appeared used, DVD cases were chipped and broken only one DVD had plastic wrapping.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Buy.......2007-01-04

This was a high quality packaged item suitable for saving and showing off. The movies are also terrific and will be watched again and again. I was impressed with the quality of the packaging for the price of this set. I expeceted the interior cases to be minimal, but they are first rate.
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • The Man With the Power
  • The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
  • Fun Movie!
  • loved it
  • You remind me of a man!
 The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
Starring: Cary Grant , Myrna Loy , Shirley Temple , Rudy Vallee , and Ray Collins
Director: Irving Reis , and Tex Avery
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0001WTWRY
Release Date: 2004-06-01

Description

Through no fault of his own, artist and lady's man Richard Nugent finds a love-besotted teenage girl curled on his sofa. Through no fault of his own, the teen's sister is a judge who "sentences" thunderstruck Richard to date the girl until her schoolgirl crush wanes. Circumstances aren't kind to Richard. But they certainly are hilarious when Cary Grant plays Richard, Myrna Loy is the judge and Shirley Temple is the teen.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Man With the Power.......2007-06-14

"The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer is from 1947, a year that left behind some pretty good films, "Gentlemen's Agreement," "A Double Life," "Great Expectations," "Body and Soul," "Black Narcissus," "The Farmer's Daughter," "Mother Wore Tights," "Green Dolphin street," "The Bishop's Wife" and "Miracle on 34th Street." All in all, not a bad year, although it does seem strange to me that with all those choices, it was this amusing but innocuous little comedy that won the Oscar for the best original screenplay.

This is one of the movies in which Shirley Temple attempted to make the transition from adorable moppet to young woman--well, to teenager, at least. Shirley is not bad, she has a couple of good scenes, as a matter of fact, but it is easy to see why she never made it as an adult movie star. The moppet mannerisms were too ingrained in her acting technique and persona. Every so often, she looks like a seven year-old somehow trapped in a sixteen year-old body. (She was nineteen at the time.)

The movie is one of the later successes of the screwball comedy era (I suppose 1952's "Monkey Business" also with Grant was the last), but it is slowed and softened by the home, mom and apple pie mind-set of the post-War era. Nevertheless, a cast that included Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Rudy Vallee (surprisingly good in a part that would normally have been assigned to Ralph Bellamy), solid, stolid, familiar Ray Collins and what appears to be about half of the dear, nameless but familiar faces of the Hollywood repertory company, would have been able to spin far less promising material into finest gold.

Archie Leech had honed his Cary Grant creation to perfection and hauled him out in memorable vehicles twice in 1947: here in this film and in even more glistening form in "The Bishop's Wife." As one memorable passage from "The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer" that swept over the school halls of the day had it:

You remind me of a man.
What man?
The man with the power.
What power?
The power of the hoodoo.
Who do?
You do.
I do what?
You remind me of a man.

Five stars for the man with the power of the hoo-doo.

5 out of 5 stars The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer.......2007-05-06

The wife Loves it... Great service, quick shipping.

5 out of 5 stars Fun Movie!.......2007-01-11

It's another fun movie, by Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Tempel. Loved it. I miss these days.

5 out of 5 stars loved it.......2007-01-04

This movie is great it has everything you want in a lighthearted comedy.
I especially loved the fact I didn't have to worry who was watching it with me no bad language, no nude scenes. It is just great entertainment!

5 out of 5 stars You remind me of a man!.......2006-12-27

I have loved this movie since I was a kid and still love it! The "you remind me of a Man" take on "who's on First" is great.

Good clean fun!
My Favorite Wife / The Bachelor & The Bobby-Soxer (Two-Pack)
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    		My Favorite Wife / The Bachelor & The Bobby-Soxer (Two-Pack)
    Starring: Warner 2pak
    Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
    ProductGroup: DVD
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    ASIN: B0002QO3LO
    Release Date: 2004-10-12

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