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Article: Cary Grant sparkles in new five-film collection.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 1, 2004
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Byline: Terry Lawson
All five titles in "The Cary Grant Signature Collection" (Warner, $49.92) are available individually for $19.97 each, but you do the math. Because at least two titles in this box of films never before released on DVD are must-owns, you're essentially getting the other three for next to nothing.
My pick for best of show here is 1940's "My Favorite Wife" (4 stars) in which Grant's marriage to the lovely Gail Patrick is seriously threatened when his first wife, Irene Dunne, suddenly returns from the dead; seems reports of her tragic demise were a little off the mark.
Directed by Garson Kanin and cowritten by Leo McCarey, this ...