Happy Birthday Cary Grant! 18 January marks what would have been Cary Grant’s 120th birthday, and is an opportune moment to stop and celebrate one of Bristol’s biggest success stories and finest exports.
He enjoyed a six decade-spanning career as a Hollywood film star and style icon that earned him numerous accolades, including an Honorary Oscar, the title of world’s best dressed man and a place on a US postage stamp. He was also an astute businessman and connected to many of the most iconic figures of the 20th century (among them, Mae West, Elvis, Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Princess Grace of Monaco, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and the Kennedys), but he never forgot that it all began in Bristol, the city of his birth, and a place to which he returned time and time again.
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Review: Cary Grant bio a perceptive look at captivating star
“Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise” bygd Scott Eyman (Simon & Schuster)
Self-trained English actor Archie Leach pulled off the role of a lifetime: becoming Hollywood legend Cary Grant Why the child of a broken family hid behind the silver screen’s definition of easy charm and handsome masculinity is another story entirely.
In the most entertaining and enlightening star biography in years, writer Scott Eyman poignantly notes the realities behind Grant’s remarkable subterfuge while exploring his phenomenal career
Despite a heyday more than a half-century ago, his best films wear so well because the appeal of Cary Grant defies time — screwball comedies like “Bringing Up Baby” and “His Girl Friday,” romances like “The Philadelphia Story” and “An Affair to Remember,” the adventure “Gunga Din” or any of his fyra Alfred Hitchcock films, particularly “Notorious” and “North bygd Northwest.”
Grant turned his celluloid charm into a p