A retrospective tribute to one of the greatest stars ever to grace the silver screen. Suave and sophisticated, effortlessly witty, with perfect timing and a willingness to go all out for a good story, Grant was a legend in his own lifetime. This strand looks at some of his best and most influential work.
To Catch A Thief and Only Angels Have Wings
An Affair To Remember
(Country: US; Year: 1957; Director: Leo McCarey; Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Cathleen Nesbit)
A promiscuous playboy and a woman engaged to someone else fall in love aboard a cruise ship and plan to reunite is six months if they still feel the same way - but will fate give them the chance?
Arsenic And Old Lace
(Country: US; Year: 1944; Director: Frank Capra; Stars: Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair)
A wedding day is disrupted by fugitive criminals and elderly relatives whose poison isn't confined to remarks about the bridal gown.
Bringing Up Baby
(Country: US; Year: 1938; Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn)
The quiet life of a dinosaur specialist is turned upside down be a beautiful, eccentric heiress and her pet leopard.
His Girl Friday
(Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy)
When a notorious criminal escapes from jail, a newspaper editor goes all out to keep his top reporter on the case, even though she's supposed to be getting married the next day - to the man she fell for after divorcing him.
I Was A Male War Bride (You Can't Sleep Here)
(Country: US; Year: 1949; Director: Howard Hawks; Writer: Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigelgass, Hagar Wilde; Stars: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan,
Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart,
William Neff, Kenneth Tobey)
Second World War mission played for comic romance.
Notorious and I Was A Male War Bride
North By Northwest
(Country: US; Year: 1959; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Ernest Lehman; Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Edward Platt)
A case of mistaken identity and false accusation sees an innocent man go on the run from the CIA and a criminal gang.
Notorious
(Country: US; Year: 1946; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Ben Hecht; Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Reinhold Schunzel, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault, Wally Brown, Fay Baker)
Reissue for the film about spies in South America who attract Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant.
Only Angels Have Wings
(Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth)
An Andean adventure sees a bold young woman trying to cut it as a freight pilot and falling for her boss.
To Catch A Thief
(Country: US; Year: 1955; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Stars: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis)
A retired jewel thief is disturbed by the fact that a new criminal appears to be copying his style.
