While some lucky individuals have already had the chance to see Simon Curtis’ peek into the life of a sex icon My Week with Marilyn at the New York Film Festival, the rest of us plebeians have to wait until November for our own chance. Now, early buzz for the Michelle Williams (Marilyn Monroe) vehicle has been favorable, however that is not what’s piquing my interest in the project. Rather I’m curious to see the maudlin-looking Williams’ embodiment of the sexpot. Williams is of course a stunning actress when she’s dressed for award season, but we rarely see that beauty on screen as she tends to embrace homely, makeup free characters. Clearly she will add an intriguing element of wistful sadness to the woman many of us wish to be.

The voice over in this trailer is exactly the kind of thing that gets parodied today, but it’s sort of perfect for this flick. That Touch of Mink was a fairly standard romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day. Surprisingly, Grant just wants to fool around, but Day wants to save her precious purity for marriage. The man wants something casual and the woman something serious? Unheard of! It’s a fun movie – one that Cary Grant reportedly hated.

Every day, come rain or shine or internet tubes breaking, Film School Rejects showcases a trailer from the past. How do you know Cary Grant isn’t a murderer? You don’t. Summer is coming up fast, and instead of sunburn and back injury, you can go around the country with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint from the safety of your own home. From the streets of New York City to the faces of Mount Rushmore, this travel packages includes everything (and puts a knife in your hand at just the wrong moment). Check out the trailer for yourself:

Every day, come rain or shine or internet tubes breaking, Film School Rejects showcases a trailer from the past. What’s fascinating about this trailer is that it takes one of the wordiest movies ever made and puts all of the actors on mute for a significant amount of its run time. If you’re irritated by comedy trailers showcasing all the best jokes in an effort to spoil the movie, this trailer should be a breath of fresh air. And after listening to the speaking speed of Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, you’ll hope they eventually come up for that air, too. Think you know what it is? Check the trailer out for yourself:

On March 10, 1938, Leo McCarey accepted his Academy Award for Best Directing and kindly thanked his audience before stating that they gave him an award for “the wrong picture.” McCarey had won for The Awful Truth (1937), the brilliant Cary Grant/Irene Dunne screwball romantic comedy. McCarey was a talented comedy director and no doubt deserved the award (and it’s hard to imagine anybody today winning an Oscar for directing a comedy), but he was equally deserving of the award for directing a more personal and less conventional film that very same year, Make Way For Tomorrow. A film beloved by cinephiles and filmmakers as a sincerely moving emotional experience (Orson Wells reportedly said that Make Way For Tomorrow would make a stone cry), it still remains one of few Hollywood films that concerns itself seriously with the lives of senior citizens. But it also represents the incredible range of an underrated filmmaker, which can be seen most evidently by the fact that he directed a great romantic comedy and a great adult drama in the very same year.

Every Sunday, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents the story of two women who kill old men for charity, their nephew who wants to get married without being sent to prison, his brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt and his other brother who looks like Boris Karloff and has killed plenty of people himself. Insanity might run in the family, but it’s also the story of the bodies buried in the basement and the one still hanging around the living room. Yes. It’s a comedy.

A married couple sets out to build a beautiful home in Connecticut. This does not go exactly as smoothly as they’d like. Hilarity, of course, ensues.

Let me start with one very important commandment that must be obeyed in the world of film: Thou shalt not remake Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Gone With The Wind, 2001 a Space Odyssey (to name a handful of classic films) and anything directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Anything. Even if one day a reel containing a commercial shot by the man shows up, it cannot be remade.

All month long we celebrate Best Picture Nominees that didn’t win. This week we take a look at a doomed production that churned out a brilliant film.

One of the best filmmakers of all time makes his best film. Shouldn’t you give it a shot?

A bunch of old flicks are being released this Halloween with more greats slated for the end of the year.

For the holiday weekend, we take a trip to the South of France. But we’re skipping Cannes in order to catch up with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly as they try to stop a devastatingly talented jewel thief.

For better or for worse, Hollywood works differently now, and a pretty face just doesn’t sell tickets anymore.

Throw a bunch of free-spirited, unqualified men and women together in uniform and see where the wacky antics leads.

Fast-taking, strong women, and Cary Grant being Cary Grant. His Girl Friday is a film over 70 years ahead of its time.