On This Day in August - Posters and Lobby Cards.

 To Catch a Thief - 5th August,1955.

Ladies Should Listen - 10th August, 1934.

Devil and The Deep - 12th August, 1932.

In Name Only - 18th August, 1939.

The Talk of the Town - 20th August, 1942.

In Name Only (1939)

  "No surprises are the easy ad-libbish styles of Stars Grant and Lombard..."

With Carole Lombard.

In Name Only - Review is taken from 'The Films of Cary Grant' by Donald Deschner (1973):

"In Name Only will puzzle cinemagoers who thought they knew just what high jinks to expect when Screwball Cary Grant falls in love with Screwball Carole Lombard.  Far from high jinks is the somber situation of rich young Alec Walker when he falls in love with Julie Eden, a widowed commercial artist who has taken a summer cottage near his stately county seat.  For, as rarely happens in a screwball comedy but is very likely to happen in life, Alec has a tenacious wife with an undeveloped sense of humor, parents who also thought infidelity no joke.  Before Lovers Grant and Lombard fight through to the clear, they have traded more punches than puns, emerged with the realization that matrimony is more than the off-screen ending to a Grant-Lombard movie.  

A mature, meaty picture, based on the novel Memory of Love, by veteran bucolic Bessie Brewer (wife of muralist Henry Varnum Poor), In Name Only has its many knowing touches deftly underscored by Director John Cromwell, brought out by a smoothly functioning cast.  No surprises are the easy ad-libbish styles of Stars Grant and Lombard, the enameled professional finish of oldtime Actor Charles Coburn as Alec's conventional father.  Surprising to many cinemaddicts, however, will be the effectively venomous performance, as Alec's mercenary wife, of Cinemactress Kay Francis.  Having worked out a long-term contract with Warner Bros. which kept her in the top money (over $5,000 a week) but buried her as the suffering woman in a string of B pictures, sleek Cinemactress Francis in her first free-lance job shows that she still belongs in the A's, that, properly encouraged, she can pronounce the letter r without wobbling."

- Time

New Artwork by Rebekah Hawley at Studio36 -
Number 34 - In Name Only (Lobby Card Style)

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Quote From Today... In Name Only (1939)

    "Come with me madame, I'll show you where the animals sleep."

With Carole Lombard

In Name Only was Cary Grant's 34th full length feature film.

Alec Walker: Come with me madame, I'll show you where the animals sleep.

[Escorts Julie to the bedroom]

Alec Walker: Pardon me, madame, do you snore?

Julie Eden: No.

Alec Walker: Oh, well, I guess I'll have to buy an alarm clock, won't I?

On This Day...In Name Only (1939)

Today in 1939 saw the release of Cary Grant's 34th full length feature film and his last of the 1930's.

Cary Grant plays Alec Walker, a married man who falls in love with a widow, Julie(Carole Lombard).

His wife, Maida(Kay Francis), tries to save the marriage but only to keep hold of the family money.

When Alec becomes ill, which woman will pull him through?

"A mature, meaty picture, based on the novel Memory of Love....In Name Only has its many knowing touches deftly underscored by Director John Cromwell, brought out by a smoothly functioning cast." - Time

"This is a well-made depressing little picture of unhappy marriage...The picture is made quite creditably, by three people - Miss Carole Lombard, Mr. Cary Grant and Miss Kay Francis." 
- Graham Greene, The Spectator

With Carole Lombard and Kay Francis.

Cast:

Julie Eden                  Carole Lombard
Alec Walker               Cary Grant
Maida Walker            Kay Francis
Mr. Walker                Charles Coburn
Suzanne                    Helen Vinson
Laura                         Katharine Alexander
Dr. Gateson               Jonathan Hale
Dr. Muller                  Maurice Moscovich
Mrs. Walker               Nella Walker
Ellen                           Peggy Ann Garner
Gardner                      Spencer Charters

With Carole Lombard.

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Directed by John Cromwell
Produced and distributed by RKO Radio.
Running time: 94 minutes.