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I adore this scene so much.

cinemadiscipula:

“Cyclically speaking,” Cary Grant said to me [Bodganovich], “Jimmy Stewart had the same effect on pic-tures that Marlon Brando had some years later. We did one picture together in 1940 called The Philadelphia Story…”

“I never thought that much of my work in The Philadelphia Story,” Stewart mentioned once. But the Academy awarded him an Oscar for that performance, though it’s probably true, as the story goes, that they gave it to him that year mainly because they had passed him up the year before on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

“Jimmy had the ability to talk naturally,” Grant said. “He knew that in conversations people do often interrupt one another and that it’s not always so easy to get a thought out. It took a lit-tle while for the sound men to get used to him, but he had an enormous impact. And then, some years la-ter, Marlon came out and did the same thing all over again—but what people forget is that Jimmy did it first. And he affected all of us really.”

“Isn’t that interesting!” [director George] Stevens said in response to this. “Of course, it’s true. Jimmy did it with a kind of emphasis and Brando did it with a kind of reticence.”

“We did a scene together,” Grant said, “in which he was drunk … and I got absolutely fascinated with him—watching him—you can see it in the film—he was so good!”

—from the chapter on Stewart on Peter Bogdanovich’s Who the Hell’s in It?