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Grant and Loren. Houseboat is a 1958 American romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson.It was presented in Technicolor and VistaVision.. Starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer and Harry Guardino, the film was written by Shavelson and Jack Rose on the basis of an original script by Grant's wife at the time, Betsy Drake.
Grant in the 1940s. Cary Grant (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was a British actor, known as one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing. Grant acted in at least 76 films between 1932 and 1966.
Cary Grant, Drake, and Dick Stabile in 1955. Drake began looking for work as an actress in New York City, supporting herself by working as a Conover model. She met the playwright Horton Foote, who offered her a job as an understudy in his play Only the Heart, which enabled her to join the Actors' Equity Association and thus become a professional actress.
4. North by Northwest (1959). The fourth and final collaboration between Grant and Alfred Hitchcock is also their most gripping. (“We had dinner with Alfred and his wife often,” Dyan Cannon ...
The star wed Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, Sr. twice -- first in 1957, then again in 1966. (There were complications because he was still technically married to his first wife when he wed Loren.)
The play was directed by Kate McAll, and the cast included Steven Weber as Earl Felton, Gregory Itzin as Cary Grant, Kate Steele as Sophia Loren, Jonathan Silverman as Frank Sinatra and Jonathan Getz as Stanley Kramer. [7] The cannon appears to have been based on the Jaivana Cannon, a real prototype from Jaipur, India, which still exists. It is ...
Grant's wife Betsy Drake wrote the original script, and Grant originally intended that Drake would star with him. After he began an affair with Loren while filming The Pride and the Passion (1957), Grant arranged for Loren to take Drake's place with a rewritten script for which Drake asked not to receive credit.
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; [a] January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English and American actor. Known for his Mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.