December 28 movie: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. I've noticed recently that I'm drawn to old movies about women who have jobs and are good at them. It's sadly (though not surprisingly) rare in the 40s and 50s. Myrna Loy is a judge in this movie, and she's terrific. Cary Grant plays the shifty local character who plays off against her, and he's totally unconvincing as a shifty local character, but it's Cary Grant so who cares? The one thing that really put me off this movie was Shirley Temple as a boy-crazy teen with a crush on Grant. The conventional wisdom that the viewing public couldn't handle Shirley Temple as a sexual being was definitely true for me. It was creepy.
On the bright side, Grant had funny bit of back and forth dialogue: "You remind me of a man. What man? The man with the power. What power? The power of hoo-doo. Who do? You do. Do what? Remind me of a man. What man? ..."
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wait a minute. are you being silly or did the moie labyrinth take random lines from a cary grant movie? i've only seen the end of this one and have no idea.
I don't know what moie labyrinth is, but those were lines from the movie.
sorry, typo: the henson movie, labyrinth, starring david bowie and jennifer connelly. those lines are said at the start of one of bowie's musical numbers, only they're talking about "the babe. the babe with the power" or something like that.