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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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  • His Girl Friday
  • His Girl Friday review by Welshwaspy from London
    Rated - 3.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Notorious
  • Notorious review by A customer from London
    Rated - 5.0 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...   Read customer review
  • An Affair To Remember
  • An Affair To Remember review by A customer from Redditch, UK
    Rated - 1.0 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. ...   Read customer review

Cary Grant - filmography


  • Walk, Don't Run on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Samantha Eggar,  Jim Hutton
    Director: Charles Walters
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 366 members
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  • Father Goose on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Leslie Caron
    Director: Ralph Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 893 members
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  • Charade - Blu-ray (1963)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Audrey Hepburn,  Walter Matthau
    Director: Stanley Donen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6 members
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  • Charade on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Audrey Hepburn,  Walter Matthau
    Director: Stanley Donen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 3,737 members
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  • That Touch Of Mink (1962)
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,618 member
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  • The Grass Is Greener on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Deborah Kerr,  Jean Simmons
    Director: Stanley Donen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 12
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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 »
    4 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,124 member
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,271 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4 members
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  • An Affair To Remember on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Deborah Kerr,  Cary Grant,  Richard Denning
    Director: Leo McCarey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5 members
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  • Monkey Business on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Marilyn Monroe,  Cary Grant,  Ginger Rogers
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 448 members
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  • Crisis (1950)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  José Ferrer,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 3 members
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  • I Was A Male War Bride on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Ann Sheridan,  Marion Marshall
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,707 member
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  • Notorious on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Ingrid Bergman,  Claude Rains
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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....?
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 4,812 members
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  • The Talk Of The Town on DVD (1942)
    Starring: Emma Dunn,  Rex Ingram,  Leonid Kinskey
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 733 members
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  • Suspicion on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Nigel Bruce,  Leo G. Carroll,  Isabel Jeans
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,410 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.
    3 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 121 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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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,129 member
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  • Holiday on DVD (1938)
    Starring: Henry Kolker,  Binnie Barnes,  Jean Dixon
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,789 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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 64 members
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  • The Toast Of New York on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Edward Arnold,  Cary Grant,  Frances Farmer
    Director: Rowland V. Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 8 members
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  • The Amazing Adventure on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Mary Brian,  Peter Gawthorne
    Director: Alfred Zeisler
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 427 members
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  • Sylvia Scarlett on DVD (1935)
    Starring: Katharine Hepburn,  Cary Grant,  Brian Aherne
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 188 members
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  • Alice In Wonderland (1933)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Gary Cooper,  W.C. Fields
    Director: Norman Z. McLeod
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 9 members
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  • Hollywood Collection - Leading Men (4 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Charlton Heston,  Gregory Peck
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    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 »
    1 star out of 5 18% from 5 members
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  • The Hollywood Collection - Cary Grant - ... on DVD
    Starring: Cary Grant
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 44 members
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  • Hollywood Biographies - The Leading Men (5 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Cary Grant,  Clark Gable
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 54 members
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Cary Grant facts

5 most recent films

Walk, Don't Run - 3.0 stars
Father Goose - 4.0 stars
Charade - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Charade - 3.5 stars
That Touch Of Mink - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

North by Northwest - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Philadelphia Story - 4.0 stars
North by Northwest - 4.0 stars
Father Goose - 4.0 stars
Bringing Up Baby - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Hollywood Collection - Leading Men - 1.0 stars
Every Girl Should Be Married - 2.0 stars
The Toast Of New York - 2.0 stars
Once upon a Honeymoon - 2.5 stars
Alice In Wonderland - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Katharine Hepburn - 8 times - show films
Clark Gable - 6 times - show films
Al Pacino - 6 times - show films
Fred Astaire - 6 times - show films
Robert De Niro - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Howard Hawks - 9 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 7 times - show films
Stanley Donen - 6 times - show films
George Cukor - 6 times - show films
George Stevens - 4 times - show films