Cary Grant's Main TV Roles [no roles found]

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Smash His Camera 1985 - That's Dancing! 1984 - Terror in the Aisles 1982 - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1970 - Elvis: That's the Way It Is 1966 - Walk Don't Run 1964 - Father Goose 1963 - Charade 1962 - That Touch of Mink 1959 - North by Northwest 1959 - Operation Petticoat 1958 - Indiscreet 1958 - Houseboat 1957 - An Affair to Remember 1955 - To Catch a Thief 1952 - Monkey Business 1951 - People Will Talk 1949 - I Was a Male War Bride 1948 - Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948 - Every Girl Should Be Married 1947 - The Bishop's Wife 1947 - The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer 1946 - Without Reservations 1946 - Notorious 1946 - Night and Day 1944 - Arsenic and Old Lace 1943 - Destination Tokyo 1942 - Once Upon a Honeymoon 1942 - The Talk of the Town 1941 - Penny Serenade 1941 - Suspicion 1940 - His Girl Friday 1940 - The Philadelphia Story 1940 - My Favorite Wife 1939 - Gunga Din 1939 - Only Angels Have Wings 1939 - In Name Only 1938 - Bringing Up Baby 1938 - Holiday 1937 - The Awful Truth 1937 - Topper 1933 - She Done Him Wrong 1933 - Alice in Wonderland 1933 - I'm No Angel 1932 - Blonde Venus

BIOGRAPHY:

Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant," Grant is said to have replied, "So would I." His early years in Bristol, England, would have been an ordinary lower-middle-class childhood except for one extraordinary event. At age nine, he came home from school one day and was told his mother had gone off to a seaside resort. The real truth, however, was that she had been placed in a mental institution, where she would remain for years, and he was never told about it (he wouldn't see his mother again until he was in his late 20s). He left school at 14, lying about his age and forging his father's signature on a letter to join Bob Pender's troupe of knockabout comedians. He learned pantomime as well as acrobatics as he toured with the Pender troupe in the English provinces, picked up a Cockney accent in the music halls in London, and then in July 1920, was one of the eight Pender boys selected to go to the US. Their show on Broadway, "Good Times," ran for 456 performances, giving Grant time to acclimatize. He would stay in America. Mae West wanted Grant for She Done Him Wrong (1933) because she saw his combination of virility, sexuality and the aura and bearing of a gentleman. Grant was young enough to begin the new career of fatherhood when he stopped making movies at age 62. One biographer said Grant was alienated by the new realism in the film industry. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he had invented a man-of-the-world persona and a style--"high comedy with polished words." In To Catch a Thief (1955), he and Grace Kelly were allowed to improvise some of the dialogue. They knew what the director, Alfred Hitchcock, wanted to do with a scene, they rehearsed it, put in some clever double entendres that got past the censors, and then the scene was filmed. His biggest box-office success was another Hitchcock 1950s film, North by Northwest (1959) made with Eva Marie Saint since Kelly was by that time Princess of Monaco


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