This morning we were alerted to a sportcoat made for Cary Grant in “Monkey Business” for the scene in which a youth serum gives the 48-year-old Grant the tastes and behavior of a college student. The jacket, currently for sale from a movie memorabilia company, did not make it into the film. It was made by Carroll & Co. of Beverly Hills, LA’s longstanding outpost of traditional clothing.
The jacket is a kind of hybrid jacket combining Ivy elements with characteristics of jackets Grant wore at the time. It has soft shoulder lines, three-button stance and a hook vent, combined with darts and a ticket pocket.
It’s similar to a jacket Grant wears in “People Will Talk,” subject of one of Ivy Style’s earliest posts, and in “Monkey Business” Grant also wears the three-button jacket with the bottom two buttons fastened.
The sportcoat will set you back $8,000, but the spring it will put in your step will be priceless. “Everyone wants to be Cary Grant,” Grant once famously said. “Even I want to be Cary Grant.” — CC
It actually doesn’t strike me as the kind of jacket Grant would normally wear, rather than a college student of more dubious taste; I think that was the point of this jacket.
Grant preferred solids. Back in the day, unless an actor was cast to play a military role or the movie was a historical drama, actors wore their own clothes when filming. As Christian recounted in the previous post, Cary Grant’s character underwent a transformation; hence the jacket. As you observe, the point was to make him look college age-ish.
The dubious taste? Well, yeah, that is kind of loud, isn’t it?
True, all one needs to do is catch “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer”. Grant’s clothing was meant to be extreme when he pretended to be interested in Shirley Temple’s character. the film actually won an Oscar for best original screenplay in 1948.
It actually doesn’t strike me as the kind of jacket Grant would normally wear, rather than a college student of more dubious taste; I think that was the point of this jacket.
Exactly.
Grant preferred solids. Back in the day, unless an actor was cast to play a military role or the movie was a historical drama, actors wore their own clothes when filming. As Christian recounted in the previous post, Cary Grant’s character underwent a transformation; hence the jacket. As you observe, the point was to make him look college age-ish.
The dubious taste? Well, yeah, that is kind of loud, isn’t it?
True, all one needs to do is catch “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer”. Grant’s clothing was meant to be extreme when he pretended to be interested in Shirley Temple’s character. the film actually won an Oscar for best original screenplay in 1948.
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