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  • OK, so who skated for Cary Grant?

    From kwebster62@yahoo.com@21:1/5 to Doria on Sun Dec 18 05:42:17 2016
    On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 at 4:14:13 PM UTC-4, Doria wrote:

    No doubles for Cary Grant. I had the opportunity to ask him this
    because we shared the same chiropractor years ago and were in the same waiting room on a couple of occasions, talking about the Dodgers (he
    was a big, big Dodger fan and had season tickets) and he told me he
    was a gymnast when he was young, and did all his own skating in most
    every scene in the Bishop's Wife (one of my favorits Grant movies).
    He could also dance really well and roller skate. He also could do
    prat falls because of his gymnastics background, like he did in
    "Bringing in Baby" by K. Hepburn. He was a very nice old man when I
    met him and I got his autograph too on one occasion. I don't know if
    Loretta Young had a skate double or not in that movie. Occasionally
    Grant and his wife Barbara would take Dr. Hexburg, the chiropractor we shared, to the Dodger games, and I'd see them together there
    sometimes.>
    Doria

    Yeah, I'm not buying into that. IF it had been Grant and Young doing all their own skating the director would have made it very clear and not had so many long shots of the skating. It seems quite obvious it was a skater wearing a Grant-like mask doing
    Grant's more difficult skating.

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  • From typower128@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Ellyn Kestnbaum on Thu Jan 24 18:01:33 2019
    On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 at 3:31:37 PM UTC-4, Ellyn Kestnbaum wrote:
    I believe Eugene Turner was the skating double for Grant here. Not
    sure about the other characters.

    Eugene Turner skated for Cary Grant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Turner

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  • From Alyssa Franco@21:1/5 to Doria on Mon Apr 25 15:06:14 2022
    On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 at 4:14:13 PM UTC-4, Doria wrote:
    tru...@clarityconnect.competent (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote in message news:<trudee-1506...@cci-209150248003.clarityconnect.net>...

    So...anyone know who the skating doubles were for this movie? Or have a clue as to who they might have been? Lord knows the credits for this movie were long (they even mention who the choir was), but the skaters never got credit.
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    No doubles for Cary Grant. I had the opportunity to ask him this
    because we shared the same chiropractor years ago and were in the same waiting room on a couple of occasions, talking about the Dodgers (he
    was a big, big Dodger fan and had season tickets) and he told me he
    was a gymnast when he was young, and did all his own skating in most
    every scene in the Bishop's Wife (one of my favorits Grant movies).
    He could also dance really well and roller skate. He also could do
    prat falls because of his gymnastics background, like he did in
    "Bringing in Baby" by K. Hepburn. He was a very nice old man when I
    met him and I got his autograph too on one occasion. I don't know if
    Loretta Young had a skate double or not in that movie. Occasionally
    Grant and his wife Barbara would take Dr. Hexburg, the chiropractor we shared, to the Dodger games, and I'd see them together there
    sometimes.
    Doria

    This is easily found on Goolge and Wikipedia:

    Turner partnered with Sonja Henie during her tour and in Iceland in 1942. He also performed as a skating double for Cary Grant in The Bishop's Wife in 1948, and for Patric Knowles in the Abbott & Costello comedy, Hit the Ice in 1943.

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