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Cary Grant was a big movie start in the 1930's trough 60's. I really like him because he plays a different character in every movie. In To Catch a Thief he played a retired burglar who is being impersonated. In Father Goose Grant was a drunken hermit living on an island. No matter the part, he was always a good guy even if the plot made him out to be bad at the beginning. It was always a surprise to find out the truth at the end of the movies.
Grant has a certain charm and sophistication on film that I find attractive even if he was an older man. He had some of the best and funnest lines in every movie. He worked with the amazing director Alfred Hitchcock several times and starred in North By Northwest which was a huge success in 1959. He was in over 70 films and received the Academy Award For Life Time Achievement in 1970. He also received the second most distinguished actors award from the America Film Institute. The man was amazing!
Cary Grant worked with many actors such as Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Katharine Hepburn, and Bette Davis just to name a few. He was in so many movies but some you might recognize are An affair to Remember, To Catch a Thief, None But The Lonely Heart, and Charade. In Charade (1963) Grant starred opposite Audrey Hepburn who played a confused widow that was much younger in the film. Grant had lines added into the script making it clear that Hepburn was chasing after him and even had jokes in the film about the age difference. He turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No (1962) because he though that at age 58 he was too old.
As I said before I love Cary Grants work and I hope this made you a fan also! If you haven't seen any of his movies, I HIGHLY recommend it.
Always,
Avery
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Classy Guy. I love his work as well. I think my absolute favorite of his is "Arsenic and Old Lace", but really, you can't go wrong with Cary Grant.
ReplyDeleteInteresting about the Bond thing. And too bad. He would have made an awesome Bond.
Fantastic post, also one of my favorites. My mom was a fan, so I grew up with his comedies like That Touch Of Mink with Doris Day, and my all time favorite, Bringing Up Baby. His Girl Friday is also a good one. Did you know: a young boy born Archibald Leech grew up poor. He spent his winters like many kids, sliding across the school pavement on the ice. He tripped and fell, chipping his front tooth. Knowing his father had no money for a trip to the dentist, Archie walked across the street to a dental clinic where they taught dentistry. The young man working fixed the problem... by removing the tooth altogether! For the next year, Archie spoke only when spoken to and learned to keep his upper lip in place to hide from his father the missing tooth, and eventually the other teeth moved together to fill in the gap. Years later, Archibald moved to hollywood and became an actor... named Cary Grant. And that is why his smile is so distinctive. There's a great joke in His Girl Friday where Cary Grant mentions "the last man to threaten me was Archibald Leech, and no one ever heard from him again."
ReplyDeleteOh wow I didn't know that, that's so interesting!
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