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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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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 »
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62%
from 301 members
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Father Goose
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron
Director: Ralph Nelson
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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.
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74%
from 682 members
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Charade
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
Director: Stanley Donen
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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 »
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71%
from 2,697 members
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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 »
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64%
from 167 members
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North By Northwest - BLU-RAY Version
(1959)
Starring: Cary Grant, James Mason, Eva Marie Saint
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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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 »
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86%
from 35 members
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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 »
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73%
from 885 members
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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 »
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66%
from 1,026 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 »
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67%
from 1,007 member
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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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In this legendary tearjerker, the world's most eligible bachelor (Cary Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be, while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and realizes he's engaged to the wrong woman--and she's engaged to the ..read more »
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71%
from 3,180 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 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 »
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70%
from 4,677 members
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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 »
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63%
from 872 members
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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 »
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63%
from 366 members
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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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In post-World War II Germany, American Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) and French army officer Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) fall in love and marry. However, on the day they speak their "I dos," Gates's ship sets sail for the States. Rochard succeeds in getting aboard the boat as a "war ..read more »
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67%
from 771 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 »
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71%
from 1,351 member
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Notorious
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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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 »
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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....?
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71%
from 4,096 members
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The Talk Of The Town
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Cary Grant, Ronald Coleman, Edgar Buchanan
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 »
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69%
from 592 members
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Suspicion
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke
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 »
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65%
from 1,940 member
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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.
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62%
from 475 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 »
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54%
from 109 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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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 »
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71%
from 3,474 members
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Holiday
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Doris Nolan
Director: George Cukor
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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 »
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64%
from 2,157 members
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The Awful Truth
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Leo McCarey
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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 »
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65%
from 1,502 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.
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66%
from 52 members
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The Amazing Adventure
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Henry Kendall
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 »
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54%
from 394 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 »
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46%
from 11 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...
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60%
from 202 members
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Sylvia Scarlett
on DVD
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 »
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56%
from 54 members
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Destination Tokyo
on DVD
Starring: Cary Grant, John Garfield
Director: Delmer Daves
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In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.
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59%
from 231 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.
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70%
from 22 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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Overview of the careers of 50 Hollywood leading ladies including Greta Garbo, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Jodie Foster, Joan Crawford, Faye Dunaway, Jane Fonda and Kim Basinger.
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46%
from 32 members
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That Touch Of Mink
on DVD
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 »
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67%
from 1,372 member
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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
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from 259 members
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Houseboat
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(1958)
Starring: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Director: Melville Shavelson
Certificate: 
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 »
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69%
from 23 members
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Penny Serenade
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(1941)
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi
Director: George Stevens
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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.
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77%
from 11 members
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His Girl Friday
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(1940)
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Howard Hawks
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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 »
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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...
I love this film 13 November 2004
They don't make 'em like that anymore.... thank goodness! 16 July 2006
