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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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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: Jim Hutton, Samantha Eggar, John Standing
Director: Charles Walters
Certificate: 
Comedy starring Cary Grant. When English industrialist Sir William Rutland (Grant) arrives in Tokyo on business, the influx of tourists for the upcoming Olympic games makes it impossible to find lodging. So Rutland fast-talks his way into sharing an apartment with beautiful Christine Easton (..read more »
 
62%
from 386 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 935 members
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Charade
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Jacques Marin, James Coburn, Cary Grant
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 »
73%
from 4,062 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 »
82%
from 35 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 1,654 member
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The Grass Is Greener
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant
Director: Stanley Donen
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A rousing chorus of Noël Coward's Stately Homes of England is heard as the opening titles of The Grass Is Greener fade into several stock shots of those stately homes. One of these mansions is owned by British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to make ..read more »
64%
from 262 members
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North by Northwest - Blu-ray
(1959)
Starring: Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
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A masterful mix of comedy and suspense from Alfred Hitchcock. Advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is lunching in a restaurant with his mother when he mistakenly answers a page for one George Kaplan. He soon finds himself on the run across the country, being pursued by enemies of the ..read more »
82%
from 1,319 member
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Operation Petticoat
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis
Director: Blake Edwards
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Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) is skipper of the U.S.S. Sea Tiger, a submarine forced out to sea by an enemy air attack. He is less than impressed by his newly-arrived junior officer, Lieutenant Nick Holden (Tony Curtis), who nevertheless manages to scavenge the spare parts and supplies needed to keep ..read more »
73%
from 1,176 member
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Indiscreet
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Megs Jenkins, David Kossoff, Ingrid Bergman
Director: Stanley Donen
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Anna Kalman (Ingrid Bergman) is a wealthy actress whose love affairs never last for long. When she meets businessman Philip Adams (Cary Grant) at a NATO dinner, she is attracted to him. He reveals that he is married, but this does not prevent them embarking on a love affair. However, just as Philip ..read more »
66%
from 1,350 member
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Houseboat
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Cary Grant, Harry Guardino
Director: Melville Shavelson
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When a civil servant's life takes a turn for the worse he attempts to put it back in line by first employing a nanny to tame his three wild children. But when Sophia Loren arrives to take charge his bad luck has only just begun on the rocky path to a happy ending.
68%
from 1,326 member
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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 »
66%
from 5 members
Not available for rental
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Kiss Them For Me
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Cary Grant, Leif Erickson, Jayne Mansfield
Director: Stanley Donen
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Wartime comedy starring Cary Grant, Ray Walston and Larry Blyden as 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 including ..read more »
52%
from 207 members
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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 4,133 members
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To Catch A Thief - Blu-ray
(1955)
Starring: Charles Vanel, Cary Grant, John Williams
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Ex-cat burglar John Robie (Cary Grant) finds himself forced to prove his innocence after a spate of burglaries on the French Riviera. The only way he can clear himself is by catching the real thief. Co-starring Grace Kelly, who met her future husband Prince Ranier of Monaco on set. It was her third ..read more »
71%
from 112 members
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To Catch A Thief
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Charles Vanel, Cary Grant, 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 6,196 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 »
63%
from 1,259 member
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People Will Talk
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Walter Slezak, Cary Grant, Finlay Currie
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Classic drama starring Cary Grant as Dr. Praetorius, an unorthodox medical professor at a sedate midwestern college who seems more interested in the human soul than the cold facts of the human body. Praetorius falls in love with one of his students, an unmarried pregnant girl (Jeanne Crain). At the ..read more »
64%
from 471 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 »
57%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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I Was A Male War Bride
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Randy Stuart, Marion Marshall, Cary Grant
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 »
68%
from 1,017 member
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Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Cary Grant, Melvyn Douglas, Myrna Loy
Director: H.C. Potter
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Jim (Cary Grant) and Muriel Blandings (Myrna Loy) are Manhattanites who are forced to seek a new home for themselves and their two daughters. Jim selects a farmhouse in the country, but upon moving in discovers that not only was he hideously overcharged, but the property needs extensive repairs and ..read more »
70%
from 784 members
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Every Girl Should Be Married
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Betsy Drake, Elisabeth Risdon, Richard Gaines
Director: Don Hartman
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Annabel Sim (Betsy Drake) is a store assistant who sets her cap at the attractive and, more importantly, single baby doctor Madison Brown (Cary Grant). He is unresponsive, despite Annabel throwing herself in his path at every opportunity, so she decides to try and make him jealous.
48%
from 27 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 »
68%
from 56 members
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The Bishop's Wife
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Elsa Lanchester, Sara Haden, Cary Grant
Director: Henry Koster
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A Christmas fantasy tale. Angel Dudley (Cary Grant) comes to Earth to help out a bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) who is involved in a desperate fundraising appeal to build a cathedral. However, his financial concerns have led him to become cut off from his wife and parishioners, a state of ..read more »
72%
from 1,783 member
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Notorious
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Reinhold Schunzel, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman
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 7,038 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 5,050 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 15 members
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The Talk Of The Town
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Glenda Farrell, Tom Tyler, Don Beddoe
Director: George Stevens
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Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant), a factory worker wrongly imprisoned for arson, escapes and hides out at the home of Nora Shelley (Jean Arthur). When renowned law professor Michael Lightcap (Ronald Colman) rents the house for the summer, Leopold masquerades as the gardener, engaging in many legal and ..read more »
69%
from 763 members
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Penny Serenade
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Ann Doran, Edmund Elton, Walter Soderling
Director: George Stevens
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Record store assistant Julie (Irene Dunne) falls for feckless reporter Roger (an Oscar nominated Cary Grant). He is offered a job in Tokyo, but marries Julie before he leaves, promising to send for her once his finances are secure. When she eventually arrives, however, it is left to her to clear ..read more »
63%
from 658 members
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Suspicion
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Leo G. Carroll, Reginald Sheffield, Constance Worth
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is little more than a fortune-hunter, Fontaine marries him anyway. She remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to ..read more »
66%
from 2,588 members
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The Philadelphia Story
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant
Director: George Cukor
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We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn). Adding insult to injury, Tracy breaks one of C.K.'s precious golf clubs. He gallantly responds by knocking her down on her million-dollar ..read more »
76%
from 5,858 members
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The Howards Of Virginia
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Martha Scott, Richard Carlson, Cary Grant
Director: Frank Lloyd
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Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbrining when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
53%
from 130 members
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His Girl Friday
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Roscoe Karns, Alma Kruger, Gene Lockhart
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 »
72%
from 4,795 members
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My Favourite Wife
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Gail Patrick
Director: Garson Kanin
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Nick Arden (Cary Grant) has his wife Ellen (Irene Dunne) declared legally dead after she has been missing for seven years, in order to marry his new love, Bianca (Gail Patrick). When Ellen, who has been shipwrecked all this time, returns to find her erstwhile husband has remarried, she sets out to ..read more »
69%
from 1,036 member
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Only Angels Have Wings
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Allyn Joslyn, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell
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 1,196 member
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Holiday
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Binnie Barnes, Charles Trowbridge, Henry Daniell
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 2,590 members
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Bringing Up Baby
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Director: Howard Hawks
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Eccentric heiress Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) steals a dinosaur bone from absent-minded paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant), forcing him to track her down to her Connecticut farm. Along the way he runs into trouble with the authorities and a possible sponsor for his museum, and ends up ..read more »
73%
from 5,265 members
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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.
66%
from 68 members
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The Awful Truth
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Joyce Compton, Cecil Cunningham, Ralph Bellamy
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 1,877 member
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The Amazing Adventure
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: John Turnbull, Cary Grant, Leon M. Lion
Director: Alfred Zeisler
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Tony Curtis presents this rare Cary Grant British feature. Rich, idle socialite Ernest Bliss (Grant) inherits a fortune in Depression-hit England. Bored and frustrated he has a bet with his Harley Street physician that he can live on his wits alone for a year, otherwise he must give £50,000 to the ..read more »
55%
from 431 members
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The Toast Of New York
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Frances Farmer, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie
Director: Rowland V. Lee
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1930s comedy starring Cary Grant. In the American Civil War, Jim Fisk (Edward Arnold) and Nick Boyd (Grant) smuggle cotton to the North. However, their ally Luke Hawkins (Jack Oakie) invests all their money in Confederate bonds, which are worthless when the North wins. Undaunted, Fisk and Boyd set ..read more »
46%
from 13 members
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The Last Outpost
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Gerthleen Burke, Claude Rains, Cary Grant
Director: Louis Gasnier, Charles Barton
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Classic war drama starring Cary Grant. Left for dead in the desert during the Kurdistan campaign in World War I, British officer Michael Andrews (Cary Grant) is eventually rescued by another British officer, John Stevenson (Claude Rains). While recovering from his injuries in the base hospital, ..read more »
55%
from 39 members
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Sylvia Scarlett
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, 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 171 members
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Born to be Bad
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Henry Travers, Paul Harvey, Cary Grant
Director: Lowell Sherman
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Classic thriller starring Cary Grant and Loretta Young. Malcolm Trevor (Grant) and his wife Alyce (Marion Burns) are unable to conceive a child, so when Malcolm accidentally runs over the son of a troubled young single mother (Young) with his truck, the couple are glad to take the boy into their ..read more »
55%
from 209 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...
61%
from 319 members
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Alice In Wonderland
on DVD
(1933)
Starring: Charlotte Henry, Cary Grant, Raymond Hatton
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
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Cary Grant, Gary Cooper and W.C. Fields star in this 1933 Paramount Studios adaptation of the classic children's novels 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' by Lewis Carroll. When Alice (Charlotte Henry) steps through a mirror, she finds herself in an enchanted land ..read more »
58%
from 19 members
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The Hollywood Collection - Cary Grant - ...
on DVD
Starring: Cary Grant
Certificate: 
Documentary that looks at the life and career of this most quintessential of romantic leading men. Grant's journey from his working-class beginnings to the peak of Hollywood royalty is told through family photos, archival footage and clips from his films. Among friends and colleagues interviewed on-..read more »
65%
from 46 members
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Hollywood Collection - Leading Men
(4 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Steve McQueen
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Four documentary portraits celebrating the lives and work of some of the most unforgettable actors ever to appear on the silver screen. The documentaries feature film clips, interviews with the stars and their families, and rare home movies. Films included are: 'Gregory Peck: His Own Man', '..read more »
24%
from 7 members
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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 348 members
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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...
