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Cary Grant
Born Archibald Leach on the 18th January 1904 in Bristol England. After moving to the USA in 1920 he had some success on Broadway. In 1931 he moved to Hollywood and took the stage name of Cary Grant.
His first blockbuster movie came in 1933. I'm No Angel found him starring alongside Mae W Est. This movie brought Paramount Pictures back from the brink of bankruptcy.
Grant would go on to star in over 60 movies, most of these being comedies starring the favoured leading lady of the day.He became one of director Alfred Hitchcock's favourite leading men, starring in many of his films, such as Suspicion (1941), To Catch A Thief (1955) and North by Northw Est (1959).
Grant was married five times and fathered one daughter. He died on the 29th Noverember 1986.
A genuine movie star, Grant had a class and style that has been many times copied, but never bettered.
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Cary Grant - what members say
review by Welshwaspy from London
Too fast and furious for me 6 June 2005
review by A customer from London
I love this film 13 November 2004
review by A customer from Redditch, UK
They don't make 'em like that anymore.... thank goodness! 16 July 2006
Cary Grant - filmography
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Walk, Don't Run
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton
Director: Charles Walters
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When an English businessman (Cary Grant, in his final performance) arrives in Tokyo, the influx of tourists for the upcoming Olympic Games makes it impossible to find lodging. He is able to talk his way into sharing an apartment with a beautiful British woman (Samantha Eggar) and finds himself ..read more »
 
62%
from 366 members
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Father Goose
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron
Director: Ralph Nelson
Certificate: 
During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
75%
from 893 members
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Charade - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
Director: Stanley Donen
Certificate: 
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Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy-thriller directed by Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral, ..read more »
66%
from 6 members
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Charade
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
Director: Stanley Donen
Certificate:
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Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy-thriller directed by Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral, ..read more »
72%
from 3,737 members
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That Touch Of Mink
(1962)
Starring: Doris Day, Cary Grant, Gig Young
Director: Delbert Mann
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That Touch of Mink is an enchanting romantic comedy featuring wonderful performances from Hollywood favourites Cary Grant and Doris Day. How much should a girl sacrifice to get the man of her dreams? That's the question facing an innocent country girl (Doris Day), who is swept into the whirlwind of ..read more »
68%
from 1,618 member
Not currently released
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The Grass Is Greener
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Donen
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When American millionaire Charles Delacro (Robert Mitchum) stumbles into the private quarters of Victor (Cary Grant) and Hilary (Deborah Kerr), an English aristocratic couple who allow public tours through their stately mansion, he brings a whirlwind of trouble with him. Hilary's dissatisfaction ..read more »
64%
from 242 members
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North by Northwest - Blu-ray
(1959)
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate: 
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST is a suspense thriller that finds Cary Grant in the role of Roger Thornhill, a Manhattan advertising executive mistaken for a spy. Considered by many to be the prototypical pure action movie (creating the template for later James Bond and Indiana Jones films), the film is a cross-..read more »
82%
from 1,151 member
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Operation Petticoat
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien
Director: Blake Edwards
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Cary Grant and Tony Curtis star as naval officers in this service comedy, one of the director's favorite genres. When Adm. Matt Sherman's (Grant) submarine, the Sea Tiger, is damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor, he needs to find spare parts to have it recommissioned. Into the breach steps ..read more »
73%
from 1,124 member
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Indiscreet
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Phyllis Calvert
Director: Stanley Donen
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Wealthy American Philip (Cary Grant) and famous actress Anne (Ingrid Bergman) meet just as Anne insists that all the best men have already been taken. Though Philip is taken, Anne can't resist their instant attraction and electricity. But the rather big, and unexpected, secret Philip hides from his ..read more »
67%
from 1,271 member
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Houseboat
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Director: Melville Shavelson
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When Tom Winston's (Cary Grant) estranged wife dies in a sudden accident, he's left alone to raise their three children. Problem is, Elizabeth, David and Robert Winston haven't seen hide nor hair of their father in ages, and they aren't about to let him play the perfect parent now. Tom has to win ..read more »
68%
from 1,270 member
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Kiss Them For Me
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson
Director: Stanley Donen
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Cary Grant, Ray Walston and Larry Blyden portray three navy war heroes who've been booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Eluding their ulcerated public relations officer (Werner Klemperer), the trio arranges a wild party with plenty of pretty girls. Cary Grant is paired with ..read more »
52%
from 197 members
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An Affair To Remember - Blu-ray
(1957)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning
Director: Leo McCarey
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An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, high-profile types both engaged to be married to other people, meet and fall in love during ..read more »
62%
from 4 members
Not available for rental
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An Affair To Remember
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning
Director: Leo McCarey
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An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, high-profile types both engaged to be married to other people, meet and fall in love during ..read more »
72%
from 3,958 members
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To Catch A Thief
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, John Williams
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar Cary Grant. Escaping the law, Grant heads to the Cote D'Azur, where he is greeted with hostility by his old partners in crime. All of them had been pardoned due to their courageous activities in the wartime ..read more »
71%
from 5,933 members
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To Catch A Thief - Blu-ray
(1955)
Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, John Williams
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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A supposedly reformed cat burglar, out to prove himself innocent of a recent crime spree, tries to capture the thief who's terrifying the French Riviera. Cary Grant is devastatingly elegant as the former thief, John Robie, and charming enough to attract the attention of the lovely Frances Stevens (..read more »
70%
from 5 members
Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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Monkey Business
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers
Director: Howard Hawks
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Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers star in this classic - comedy about a alchemist who discovers the secret of eternal youth. For years, Dr. Barnaby Fulton (Grant) has been working on a youth-restoring serum with little success - until the day a chimpanzee gets loose in the lab and ..read more »
63%
from 1,176 member
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People Will Talk
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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A lovely movie featuring Cary Grant in one of his more inscrutable roles as an angel of mercy to the sick, recalling his work in THE BISHOP'S WIFE. PEOPLE WILL TALK focuses on Dr. Praetorius, a non-traditional doctor whose patients and medical students love him, while his success spurs the jealousy ..read more »
64%
from 448 members
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Crisis
(1950)
Starring: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Jose Ferrer
Director: Richard Brooks
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Dr Ferguson is a brain surgeon, on vacation with his wife in a small Spanish-speaking country. This is actually a dictatorship ruled by tyrant Raoul Farrago. As they leave the country, Dr and Madam are arrested and lead to Farrago. He has a tumor that has to be removed quickly. Ferguson's duty is ..read more »
56%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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I Was A Male War Bride
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall
Director: Howard Hawks
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Howard Hawks directed this classic farce about how love attempts to triumph over military red tape after the close of World War II. Capt. Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is a French officer who is assigned to put a stop to a black market operation in occupied Germany with the help of Lt. Catherine Gates ..read more »
67%
from 961 members
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Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple
Director: Irving Reis
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Starring Cary Grant at his effortless best, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a sly screwball comedy of misplaced affections. The Bachelor is Dickie Nugent (Grant), a sophisticated and debonaire artist – no wonder Bobby-Soxer Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) develops such a crush on him. It doesn’t ..read more »
67%
from 31 members
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The Bishop's Wife
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Cary Grant, David Niven, Loretta Young
Director: Henry Koster
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David Niven plays preoccupied, harrassed Bishop Henry Brougham whose prayers are answered at Christmas when an angel (played by Cary Grant) is sent from heaven to help him raise money for a new church, enabling him to give his full attention to his neglected wife (Loretta Young) and parishioners. ..read more »
72%
from 1,707 member
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Notorious
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Though Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious was produced by David O. Selznick's Vanguard Films, Selznick himself had little to do with the production, which undoubtedly pleased the highly independent Hitchcock. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, who goes to hell in a handbasket after her father, an ..read more »
71%
from 6,659 members
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Arsenic and Old Lace
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson
Director: Frank Capra
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A drama critic discovers that his family are mad on the eve of his wedding. His aunts have hidden thirteen bodies in the cellar and the police are hunting for his brother who has also committed murder. Can he keep it all a secret from the rest of the world....?
72%
from 4,812 members
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Mr Lucky
(1943)
Starring: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford
Director: H C Potter
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A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.
60%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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The Talk Of The Town
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Emma Dunn, Rex Ingram, Leonid Kinskey
Director: George Stevens
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George Stevens' last film with Cary Grant represents yet another hit in his string of classic comedies. Grant stars as Leopold Dilg, a political activist who is wrongly indicted for arson and murder when a factory worker dies in a mill fire in the town of Sweetbrook. Believing that he'll be ..read more »
69%
from 733 members
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Suspicion
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Nigel Bruce, Leo G. Carroll, Isabel Jeans
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Cary Grant and Oscar-winner Joan Fontaine star in this Hitchcock thriller in which Fontaine (as Lina) suspects Grant (as her husband) of trying to murder her. The plot is typical of Hitchcock, a brain twister sewing together a series of circumstantial events that leads Lina to the inevitable ..read more »
66%
from 2,410 members
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Penny Serenade
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi
Director: George Stevens
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When a newspaper man falls for a record store sales girl, their whirlwind courtship does not prepare him for a life of laughter, romance and tragedy. He must learn the value of true love, or face failure like he's never known. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actor--Cary Grant.
63%
from 611 members
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The Howards Of Virginia
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Richard Carlson
Director: Frank Lloyd
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Director Frank Lloyd carries forward THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA, a grand historical epic about a Virginia couple from differing backgrounds during the Revolutionary War. Like Lloyd's other historical pieces, CAVALCADE and MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, the film rings with an authenticity that will enchant ..read more »
53%
from 121 members
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His Girl Friday
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Howard Hawks
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The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism ..read more »
71%
from 4,514 members
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Only Angels Have Wings
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess
Director: Howard Hawks
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Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' macho mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes. Cary Grant heads a ramshackle airmail and freight service, forced to fly in the most perilous of weather conditions to the most treacherous of destinations. Facing death on a ..read more »
68%
from 1,129 member
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Holiday
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon
Director: George Cukor
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Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of supercharged star power. Katharine Hepburn and Doris Nolan play Linda and Julia Seton, two daughters of a very well-to-do family. Linda feels a bit lost in the shuffle as ..read more »
65%
from 2,488 members
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The Awful Truth
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Esther Dale, Mary Forbes, Cary Grant
Director: Leo McCarey
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Leo McCarey directed this classic screwball comedy in which Cary Grant and Irene Dunne play Jerry and Lucy Warriner, a couple whose marriage is starting to fall apart. Jerry informs Lucy that he's taking a vacation alone in Florida; instead, he holes up with his buddies and plays poker for a week (..read more »
66%
from 1,789 member
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Topper
(1937)
Starring: Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
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This delightful ghost comedy stars Grant and Bennett as the Kirbys, who are accidentally killed in a car crash and return as spirits to haunt the ordered life of their banker, Cosmo Topper.
67%
from 64 members
Currently unavailable
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The Toast Of New York
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer
Director: Rowland V. Lee
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The story starts just before the Civil War, showing Fisk, Boyd, and Luke conning Southern townsfolk into buying bars of soap that, might, have a $10 gold piece inside. Found out, they're chased out of town and escape across the Mason-Dixon Line just as the war starts. Fisk hatches a plan for him ..read more »
43%
from 8 members
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The Amazing Adventure
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne
Director: Alfred Zeisler
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In an effort to subdue a bout of depression, Ernest Bliss, a British millionaire playboy (Cary Grant), makes a 50,000 pound bet with a psychiatrist (Peter Gawthorne) that he can become a famous business tycoon without using his family's inheritance. Bliss, who has never worked a day in his life, ..read more »
54%
from 427 members
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Sylvia Scarlett
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
Director: George Cukor
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Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn both give sparkling and witty performances in this entertaining comedy adventure. Sylvia Scarlett (Hepburn), and her crooked father are escaping France, one step ahead of the police. To avoid detection Sylvia cuts her hair and dons boy's clothing. They bump into ..read more »
56%
from 150 members
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The Last Outpost
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gerthleen Burke
Director: Charles Barton, Louis Gasnier
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THE LAST OUTPOST takes place during the Kurdistan campaign in WW I. Left to die in the desert, British officer Michael Andrews (Cary Grant) is rescued by intelligence agent John Stevenson (Claude Rains). While recuperating in the base hospital, Andrews falls in love with his nurse Rosemary (..read more »
57%
from 33 members
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Born to be Bad
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, Henry Travers
Director: Lowell Sherman
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One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of Joan Fontaine portraying a character described as a cross between Lucrezia Borgia and Peg O' My Heart. For the benefit of her wealthy husband Zachary Scott and his family, Fontaine ..read more »
55%
from 188 members
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She Done Him Wrong
on DVD
(1933)
Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
Director: Lowell Sherman
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In her first starring film vehicle, She Done Him Wrong, Mae West is Lady Lou, a saloon singer and "slick article" who drives every man who sees her mad with desire...
60%
from 290 members
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Alice In Wonderland
(1933)
Starring: Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. In England of the 19th century, young Alice finds that the mirror over the library fireplace opens into a strange world. She has odd adventures and changes ..read more »
50%
from 9 members
Not available for rental
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Night and Day
on DVD
Starring: Cary Grant, Alexis Smith
Director: Michael Curtiz
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The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s
60%
from 326 members
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Hollywood Collection - Leading Men
(4 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck
Certificate: 
This collection of documentaries honours four of the greatest leading men in Hollywood history: Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck and Steve McQueen. Featuring interviews with the likes of Leslie Caron, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Deborah Kerr, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Bellamy, Stanley Donen, ..read more »
18%
from 5 members
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The Hollywood Collection - Cary Grant - ...
on DVD
Starring: Cary Grant
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Revealing documentary focusing on Cary Grant, featuring interviews with the likes of Leslie Caron, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Deborah Kerr, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Bellamy, Stanley Donen, Richard Brooks and Stanley Kramer.
66%
from 44 members
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Hollywood Biographies - The Leading Men
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Al Pacino, Cary Grant, Clark Gable
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A fascinating 5 disc set of half hour profiles spotlighting the personal lives and extraordinary careers of 50 legendary Hollywood leading men. Dashing Errol Flynn! Handsome Paul Newman! Versatile Jack Nicholson! are just a few of the great movie actors featured in this definitive collection.From ..read more »
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from 54 members
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Cary Grant facts
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...His Girl Friday tells the story of an estranged newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) and his former wife/journalist Hilda Johnson (Rosalind Russell) who find themse...
