# No safe Haven for C. K. Dexter **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525 "2002-06-23T02:53:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525/1 "2002-06-23T02:53:46Z")
_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.](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0032904) 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. Much. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525/2 "2002-06-23T04:18:27Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525/3 "2002-06-23T05:03:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AskNott \* > \*\*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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![moggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@moggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moggy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525/4 "2002-06-23T16:23:23Z")
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!) ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525/5 "2002-06-23T16:52:59Z")
_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? C.K.? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525/6 "2002-06-23T17:01:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SkipMagic \* > > **And Grade Kelly before she went off and did something silly…** 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: ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525/7 "2002-06-23T17:07:20Z")
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](http://fathom.org//teemingmillions/people) site, but I just looked and did not find it. ---
**Author:** ![Doublemint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doublemint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doublemint)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525/8 "2002-06-23T19:55:37Z")
You’re right Ringo. His pic was Cary Grant studio shot. But think about it would you want to be associated with _Cary_ or Bing ? ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525/9 "2002-06-24T01:14:39Z")
Knowing this, he gets my vote for coolest doper name. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525/10 "2002-06-24T01:40:32Z")
He has mentioned in the past that it’s _Philadelphia Story_ that he’s referring to. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-safe-haven-for-c-k-dexter/115525/11 "2002-06-24T02:07:56Z")
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. Jim