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Cary Grant
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On The Awful Truth we just clicked. She'd been a weepie star and comedy was strange to her.
— On Irene Dunne, in a 1980 interview/profile by James Bawden in ; as quoted in Conversations with Classic Film Stars (2016) by Bawden and
Cary Grant
British-American actor (1904–1986)
- Fame66.5
- Momentum0.5
- United States rank#215
Source-basedStable
- Fame66.5
- Momentum0.5
- United States rank#215
- Actors rank#111
- Wikipedia188.3K
Lived 1904–1986, aged 82United States
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He made charm look easy — an accent that split the Atlantic, timing that could carry a screwball comedy or a Hitchcock thriller, and the rare trick of playing with his dignity without losing it. The man born Archibald Leach became the template for what a movie star could be.
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Archibald Leach left Bristol at 16 with a vaudeville troupe, running from an impoverished home, an alcoholic father, and a mother who wasn't there. He worked the American stage through the 1920s, then landed in Hollywood in the early 1930s and remade himself entirely. Crime films and dramas came first — Blonde Venus, She Done Him Wrong — but the screwball comedies made him: The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story, pictures that still define the genre. He took on Hitchcock four times between 1941 and 1959, playing darker, morally ambiguous men in Suspicion and…
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Cary Grant
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The film I most cared about was a flop. None But the Lonely Heart was the only time I played a character very near myself, a man unsure of himself, a drifter, a rake.
— Evidently from the same 1980 James Bawden interview; as quoted in "Cary Grant's Star Never Lost its Glow" by Bawden, Toronto Star (December
Cary Grant
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My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between times, I occupy myself as best I can.
— 1978 interview with , "Cary Grant: Doing What Comes naturally," Los Angeles Times (June 11, 1978), p. 39; as quoted in "Quotable Cary" at
Cary Grant
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I often think my life has been a failure.
— As quoted in "They Changed Their Careers and Became Famous; Cary a Failure?" by Jack Harrison Pollack, Parade (November 16, 1969), p. 7;
Cary Grant
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I’m prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it in the rear end.
— Quotes of Grant from "Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About" by Sheilah Graham Westbrook in Motion Picture (June 1964)
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