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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 West. 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 Northwest (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


  • His Girl Friday
  • His Girl Friday review by from London
    Rated - 3 stars Too fast and furious for me 6 June 2005
    ...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...  
  • Notorious
  • Notorious review by A customer from London
    Rated - 5 stars I love this film 13 November 2004
    ...Cary Grant plays a mixture of charm and menace in this film. Ingrid Bergman is beautiful and oh-so-vulnerable. Has some truly frightning moments. Everything heads for a c...  
  • An Affair To Remember
  • An Affair To Remember review by A customer from Redditch, UK
    Rated - 1 stars They don't make 'em like that anymore.... thank goodness! 16 July 2006
    ...school kids 'concert' - puke!). Deborah Kerr couldn't act at all, and actually Cary Grant, an actor I usually really like, looked and sounded uncomfortable throughout. ...  

Cary Grant - filmography


  • Charade on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Audrey Hepburn,  Walter Matthau
    Director: Stanley Donen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid but his real motives aren't entirely clear--could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,709 members
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  • Indiscreet on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Ingrid Bergman,  Phyllis Calvert
    Director: Stanley Donen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,031 member
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  • Houseboat on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Sophia Loren,  Martha Hyer
    Director: Melville Shavelson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,016 member
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  • Notorious on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Ingrid Bergman,  Claude Rains
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    NOTORIOUS is Alfred Hitchcock's classic romantic espionage thriller, with passionate, brilliant performances by Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, featuring one of the most famous screen kisses in film history. At the end of World War II, American military intelligence drafts the alluring daughter (..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,265 members
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  • Penny Serenade on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Irene Dunne,  Beulah Bondi
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 477 members
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  • His Girl Friday on DVD (1940)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Rosalind Russell,  Ralph Bellamy
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    In Howard Hawks's screwball masterpiece adapted from the stage play THE FRONT PAGE by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, star reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), once married to suave editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant), plans to leave the stressful newspaper world behind and marry a boring ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,489 members
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  • Holiday on DVD (1938)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Katharine Hepburn,  Doris Nolan
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant team up in this classic George Cukor comedy about love that finally finds its mark. Johnny (Grant) has just met the girl of his dreams, so he proposes; she happily accepts. However, he soon discovers that his lovely bride-to-be, Julia (Doris Nolan), comes from a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 2,161 members
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  • The Awful Truth on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Irene Dunne,  Ralph Bellamy
    Director: Leo McCarey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In one of the supreme screwball comedies, young husband and wife Jerry and Lucy (Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, respectively), suspicious that the other is having an affair, start divorce proceedings and see each other only when Jerry visits their dog, who is held in joint custody. As Lucy shows signs ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 1,505 member
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  • Topper (1937)
    Starring: Constance Bennett,  Cary Grant,  Roland Young
    Director: Norman Z. McLeod
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 52 members
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  • The Last Outpost on DVD (1935)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Claude Rains,  Gerthleen Burke
    Director: Charles Barton,  Louis Gasnier
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 11 members
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  • That Touch Of Mink on DVD
    Starring: Doris Day,  Cary Grant,  Gig Young
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
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Cary Grant - watch online


  • Houseboat to Watch Now (1958)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Sophia Loren,  Martha Hyer
    Director: Melville Shavelson
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
    Run time: 110 minutes
    Cary Grant scored still another box-office smash with his 1958 vehicle Houseboat. Grant plays a widowed father who packs himself and his spoiled kiddies off to a ramshackle houseboat. Enter Sophia Loren, who is attempting to break loose from her tyrannical father's (Eduardo Cianelli) iron grip. She ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 23 members
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  • Penny Serenade to Watch Now (1941)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Irene Dunne,  Beulah Bondi
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
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    Run time: 118 minutes
    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.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 11 members
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  • His Girl Friday to Watch Now (1940)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Rosalind Russell,  Ralph Bellamy
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
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    Run time: 92 minutes
    In Howard Hawks's screwball masterpiece adapted from the stage play THE FRONT PAGE by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, star reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), once married to suave editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant), plans to leave the stressful newspaper world behind and marry a boring ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 83% from 123 members
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Cary Grant facts

5 most recent films

Walk, Don't Run - 3.0 stars
Father Goose - 3.5 stars
Charade - 3.5 stars
The Grass Is Greener - 3.0 stars
North by Northwest - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

North By Northwest - BLU-RAY Version - 4.5 stars
The Philadelphia Story - 4.0 stars
North by Northwest - 4.0 stars
Father Goose - 3.5 stars
Bringing Up Baby - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Once upon a Honeymoon - 2.0 stars
The Last Outpost - 2.5 stars
Hollywood Biographies - The Leading Men - 2.5 stars
Mr Lucky - 3.0 stars
Rosalind Russel Double - His Girl Friday / Never Wave At A Wac - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ralph Bellamy - 5 times - show films
Irene Dunne - 4 times - show films
Rosalind Russell - 4 times - show films
Katharine Hepburn - 4 times - show films
Regis Toomey - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Howard Hawks - 9 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 5 times - show films
George Stevens - 4 times - show films
Stanley Donen - 4 times - show films
George Cukor - 3 times - show films


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