Cary Grant

Cary Grant’s debut. He strides onto the screen flashing the suave, charming, confident, continental personality that defined his career. He outshines everyone on screen and even towers over them physically.

Sylvia Sidney stars as an heiress who falls for an alcoholic newspaper reporter played by Fredric March.

She Done Him Wrong is the film adaptation of Mae West’s play Diamond Lil.

While not a remake, The Eagle and the Hawk treads ground similar to another John Monk Saunders story adaptation, Howard Hawks’s 1930 picture, The Dawn Patrol.

Despite his miscasting as a seasoned Chicago gangster, twenty-nine-year-old Cary Grant still shines in Paramount’s Gambling Ship.

After running afoul of the law, lion tamer (Mae West) flees to New York where she falls for a man (Cary Grant).

This tone-deaf Paramount spectacle combines elements from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

On the run in England with her embezzler father, a woman (Katharine Hepburn) disguises herself as a boy and joins up with a con man (Cary Grant).

A detective (Cary Grant) teams with his manicurist-turned-reporter girlfriend to solve a case involving stolen jewels.

Jean Harlow plays Suzy, an American showgirl in London who falls for inventor Franchot Tone, flees a murder accusation, marries a philandering French air ace played by Cary Grant, then helps foil an espionage ring.

Constance Bennett and Cary Grant play a carefree couple who die in a car crash but, before ascending to the afterlife, must help mousy banker Cosmo Topper, played by Roland Young, learn to live.

Jim Fisk (Edward Arnold) and his partner (Cary Grant) build a fortune fleecing Cornelius Vanderbilt, culminating in Black Friday.

A couple (Irene Dunne and Cary Grant) tries to spoil each other’s new romances before their divorce becomes final.

While trying to secure a rare bone and a one-million dollar grant for his museum, a paleontologist (Cary Grant) finds himself mixed up with an heiress (Katharine Hepburn) and her pet leopard, Baby.

Cary Grant plays a young man who becomes engaged to a rich heiress, only to find he may have more in common with her “black sheep” sister played by Katharine Hepburn.

Gunga Din is an entertaining adventure picture.

Showgirl Jean Arthur finds herself stranded in a fog-bound South American port, where she encounters Cary Grant and his crew of flyers who risk their necks threading mail planes through a treacherous mountain pass.

A woman (Kay Francis) refuses to give her husband (Cary Grant) a divorce so he can marry the woman (Carole Lombard) he loves.

His Girl Friday stands as the gold standard for dialog-driven movies.

My Favorite Wife is a lighthearted, quasi-remake of The Awful Truth that works largely due to the charisma of its three leads.

Politics and social stature divide a Virginia couple (Cary Grant and Martha Scott) as events lead to the Revolutionary War.

A man (Cary Grant) sneaks a pair of tabloid reporters (James Stewart and Ruth Hussey) into his stuffy ex-wife’s (Katharine Hepburn) upcoming society wedding.

Cary Grant and Irene Dunne play a couple who endure a series of tragedies attempting to start a family. The film proffers romance, humor and pathos. But not subtlety. Never subtlety.

An heiress (Joan Fontaine) suspects her new husband (Cary Grant) may be plotting to kill her.

The Talk of the Town is an uneven comedy-drama that benefits greatly from the presences of Cary Grant and Ronald Colman.

In pre-WWII Europe, a reporter (Cary Grant) tries to convince a newlywed (Ginger Rogers) that her husband (Walter Slezak) is a Nazi.

A gambler (Cary Grant) cons an heiress (Laraine Day), then has second thoughts.

Destination Tokyo is reminiscent of Warner Brothers’ Action in the North Atlantic which came out earlier the same year. Both were even nominated for the best original story Academy Award, though Tokyo is the weaker of the two.

Facing foreclosure, a theater owner (Cary Grant) meets a boy with a dancing caterpillar.

A man (Cary Grant) discovers his two elderly aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) are murdering gentlemen callers with poisonous elderberry wine.

A cockney ne’er-do-well (Cary Grant) returns home and takes stock of his life after his mother (Ethel Barrymore) falls ill.

En route to Hollywood to oversee production of the film adaptation of her best-selling novel, an author (Claudette Colbert) meets a Marine (John Wayne) who she believes would be perfect for the lead.

Night and Day is a highly fictionalized biography of Cole Porter, the composer of such American standards as “Anything Goes”, “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”, “Don’t Fence Me In”, “I Get a Kick Out of You”, and “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”.

A Government agent (Cary Grant) recruits a traitor’s daughter (Ingrid Bergman) to spy on a Nazi (Claude Rains) in Rio de Janeiro.

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a fun, if completely fantastic, comedy that shines thanks to a sublime comedy performance from star Cary Grant, a charming turn from Myrna Loy, and a well-done effort from Shirley Temple.

A Bishop (David Niven) struggling professionally and personally prays for guidance and receives it in the form of an angel named Dudley (Cary Grant).

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a breezy comedy that ages very well thanks to a solid script, and great performances from its three leads.

Betsy Drake plays a department store clerk who obsesses over trapping a pediatrician, played by Cary Grant, into marriage.

In Germany, a French captain (Cary Grant) and American Lieutenant (Ann Sheridan) bicker and eventually fall in love and marry, only to face complications when she has to return to America.

Cary Grant plays a brain surgeon vacationing with his wife in an unnamed South American country where he’s abducted and forced to operate on a dictator, played by José Ferrer.

People Will Talk is an extremely well-done comedy drama highlighted by a sparkling cast and a smart script.

Cary Grant plays a scientist who discovers a formula that makes him and his wife, played by Ginger Rogers, act like teenagers.

A diplomat (Deborah Kerr) plays chaperone while her ex-fiancé (Cary Grant) courts an Arab princess.

A retired cat burglar (Cary Grant) finds himself the prime suspect after a rash of copycat thefts.

During the Napoleonic Wars, a British navel officer (Cary Grant) and a Spanish guerrilla (Frank Sinatra) salvage a huge cannon to use against the French.

During World War II, a navy pilot (Cary Grant) woos a ship-builder’s fiancé while on leave with his buddies in San Francisco.

A man (Cary Grant) pretends to be married while romancing an actress (Ingrid Bergman) in London.

After his wife’s death, a lawyer (Cary Grant) moves onto a houseboat with his three children and an Italian symphony conductor’s daughter (Sophia Loren) as his maid.

A New York advertising executive (Cary Grant) finds himself in a world of peril after being mistaken for a government agent and accused of murder.

Operation Petticoat is a charming little comedy that runs a bit too long.

An American tourist (Robert Mitchum) begins an affair with the wife (Deborah Kerr) of a British Earl (Cary Grant).

A businessman (Cary Grant) proposes an affair to a virtuous secretary (Doris Day) who is more interested in marriage.

Donen channels Hitchcock and Wilder in this deft blend of mystery, thriller and romance with Grant, Matthau, and others pursuing Hepburn, believing she knows the location of a fortune her recently deceased husband stole during World War II.

Cary Grant plays a crusty hermit happily paid in booze to spot enemy planes on a deserted Pacific island during World War II, who soon finds himself stranded with a French schoolteacher, played by Leslie Caron, and a slew of little girls.

A businessman (Cary Grant) rooms with an athlete (Jim Hutton) and a young woman (Samantha Eggar) during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.