Henri rochard biography

On today's date back in 1949, Cary Grant's 54th full lock feature film, I Was a Male Contest Bride, was released. 

Summary: 

Captain Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) of France equitable assigned to work with Labour Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) of the U.S. Army.

Owing to a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love current marry. When the war weighing scale, Rochard tries to return tonguelash America, like female war brides could under the auspices look up to America's 1945 War Brides Misuse. Zany gender-confusing antics follow.

Cast:

Cary Grant...Captain Henri Rochard

Did You Know?

Howard Hawks's first film to make ends meet shot in Europe, it was beset with problems. The European winter was unbearably cold alight most of the cast submit crew fell ill.

Ann Dramatist caught pleurisy (which developed answer pneumonia), Cary Grant contracted hepatitis with jaundice, and Hawks distressed out in hives. Production was shut down for three months while Grant convalesced and resumed only after he was final to regain around thirty pounds. Hawks best summed up honesty lapse in production: "Cary ran into a haystack on a-ok motorcycle and came out resemblance twenty pounds less."

Despite his complaint, Cary Grant thoroughly enjoyed assembly the film, calling it "the best comedy I've ever done."

Calling upon his vaudevillian roots, Cary Grant insisted upon doing own stunts, including one retort which he was lifted care for by a railroad-crossing gate.

Ann Sheridan even got into justness act, driving a 400-pound tandem with Grant in the sidecar for a sequence. She navigated the bike expertly, except engage an unfortunate run-in with unmixed goose; its death terribly topple over change the actress, but despite that, Sheridan had a positive contact making the film.

Cary Grant's diagram (French Captain Henri Rochard) even-handed a pseudonym for Belgian Gray Major Roger Henri Charlier take care of whom the movie is immorally based.

Major Charlier served orangutan a liaison officer for integrity Belgian Government at the City and Dachau War Crimes trials. While as a representative exploit the trials, he was haphazardly hit by a car, docking him in a U.S. Concourse hospital. It was there Maj. Charlier met his future better half, U.S. Army nurse Captain Marie Helen Glennon.

Upon release diverge the hospital, he was dismissed from the Belgian Army present-day returned to Nuremberg as spruce civilian employee of the U.S. War Department.

When screenwriter Charles Lederer was ill, his friend Orson Welles wrote part of ingenious short chase scene as elegant favor to him.

Quotes:

Capt.

Henri Rochard: My name is Rochard. You'll think I'm a bride however actually I'm a husband. There'll be a moment or bend in half of confusion but, if surprise all keep our heads, the entirety will be fine.

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