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.

The Talk of the Town (1942)

   "George Stevens has adroitly directed the three principals and the fine supporting cast..."

With Ronald Colman and Jean Arthur.

The Talk of the Town - Review is taken from 'The Films of Cary Grant' by Donald Deschner (1973):

"My gripe with The Talk of the Town is the same complaint that I had against similar serio-comedies: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Meet John Doe.  It is only by a sudden fluke in the finale and a quick action on the part of one of the characters that a dreadful miscarriage of justice in this democracy is averted.  Along with our debates on the practical vs. the theoretical aspects of law and justice, we are served some witty repartee and some very funny situations.  George Stevens has adroitly directed the three principals and the fine supporting cast, including Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, Rex Ingram.  If any one performance stands out, it is that of Mr. Colman.  But still, when all the humor and wit are done, there remains the fact that but for Colman's last-minute rescue, Grant would have died at the hands of lynchers; and a mob, even in the cultured state of Massachusetts, is an army of blood thirsty beasts.  Just because it is an American mob makes its crime no more serious than a mob of Nazis.  If Mr. Stevens could have ended his film before the lynching scene (the whole is much too long anyway), he would have had a first-rate serio-comedy.  As it is we have to take the film's warm and human glow with a grain of salt while we lament our own lynching problem in a world that is crying for law and adjustment." 

- Philip T Hartung, The Commonweal

New Artwork by Rebekah Hawley at Studio36 -
Number 41 - The Talk of the Town (Lobby Card Style)

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Quote From Today... The Talk of the Town (1942)

    "...I like people who think in terms of ideal conditions."

With Jean Arthur.

The Talk of the Town was Cary Grant's 41st full length feature film.

Leopold Dilg: I don't approve of, but I like people who think in terms of ideal conditions. They're the dreamers, poets, tragic figures in this world, but interesting.

On This Day...The Talk Of The Town (1942)

The Talk of the Town was Cary Grant's 41st full length feature film. It was also his second film with Jean Arthur.

Grant plays Leopold Dilg, hunted on a trumped-up murder and arson charge.

 He hides in Nora Shelley's house (Jean Arthur), which she has just rented to austere law school dean Michael Lightcap (Ronald Colman).

"In Columbia's The Talk of the Town Producer-Director George Stevens successfully manages the ticklish chore of tucking in such strange bedfellows as zany comedy and social significance, rampant melodrama and quiet humor...the film owes much to the expert playing of the three co-stars. Miss Arthur and Grant have had more rewarding roles but play these with customary finesse." - Newsweek

With Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman.

Cast:

Leopold Dilg              Cary Grant

Nora Shelley               Jean Arthur

Michael Lightcap        Ronald Colman

Sam Yates                   Edgar Buchanan

Regina Bush               Glenda Farrell

Andrew Holmes         Charles Dingle

Mrs. Shelley               Emma Dunn

Tilney                          Rex Ingram

Jan Pulaski                  Leonid Kinskey

Clyde Bracken            Tom Tyler

Chief of Police            Don Beddoe

Judge Grunstadt          George Watts

Senator James Boyd   Clyde Fillmore

District Attorney         Frank M. Thomas

Forrester                      Lloyd Bridges

With Ronald Colman

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Directed by George Stevens.

Produced and distributed by Columbia.

Running time: 118 minutes.

Cast with director George Stevens.