Volume 28, Number 21 & 22 · January 21, 1982
One Mo' Time
By Michael Wood
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
by Stanley Cavell
Harvard University Press, 283 pp., $17.50
Irene Dunne, in the process of getting divorced from Cary Grant, is being courted by Ralph Bellamy. Bellamy ingenuously, amiably, boasts of having won several cups for dancing, and Dunne has a moment of naked regret for her old marriage. 'We never won any cups,' she says. To Bellamy, and to people like him, this will sound like a confession of relative failure, but it is really a glancing, retrospective tribute. She and Grant, when together, did not compete against anyone, they just danced, a world of affection and amusement was theirs, and was enough.
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