I’m not very smart, it’s been said, but I can lift heavy objects. As true as that might be, I can’t believe that I didn’t know until now where C.K. Dexter Haven’s name originated. Seeing C.K.'s name always sent a jolt of deja vu to the back of my brainbox, but I never quite put two and two together. Or any other appropriate cliche.
Makes me regret–after all these years of lurking and with just a smattering of posts–that I didn’t sign on as Macaulay Connor. :smack:
Now, is any of this worthy enough to start a thread? Nah. I just never started a thread before. And let me tell you, even though it is my first time, it didn’t hurt.
I just found out a couple of weeks ago, when, late at night, I happened to click onto the credits of that movie. There it was, C.K. Dexter Haven! I trotted into the office and Googled the name and the actor’s name. Ha! So that’s it!
Good thing I’m not the only one! Of course, seeing as The Phildelphia Story is a great movie–one that I’ve always enjoyed–one has to recognize that, in the menagerie of my head, the wheel is still turning. But the hamster’s dead.
In a pointless addendum, I think Archibald Alec Leach is an excellent user name all by its lonesome.
Now this is weird! I saw the movie High Society, with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, recently, and Bing Crosby’s character’s name in that movie is C.K. Dexter-Haven!!
However, imdb says Philadelphia Story came out in 1940, and High Society came out in 1956. I’m guessing Bing’s character was a nod to Cary Grant’s character.
But which character is the SDMB C K Dexter Haven named after? (I guess it’s a good thing I never complimented him on his love of old Hollywood musicals!)
High Society is a remake of The Philadelphia Story. With color. And singing. And Grade Kelly before she went off and did something silly like, say, become a princess. Both are great movies!
That’s a great question, though, moggy, I wonder from which movie C.K. took the name?
Amazingly enough, Grace’s evil twin, Grade, occasionally popped up to wreak havoc amongst The Golden Age’s elite. Grade was a mixer of mayhem, a boiler of bad luck and a hag of hardship. Always jealous of Grace’s fame and beauty (it’s hard to be beautiful when your name is “Grade”), she–and her ghost apparently–tended to subtley substitute herself in movies and on-line boards for her royal sister. The bitch. :smack:
IIRC, he at one time had a profile somewhere that included a photo of Cary Grant. I thought that was at Opal’s Teeming Millions Profiles site, but I just looked and did not find it.
I think Dex mentioned a quote by Jimmy Stewart, “Now, see here, Mr. C. K. Dexter Haven …” or something to that effect. That would be in Philadelphia Story. I can almost hear Jimmy Stewart’s voice when I read that line.
