Biography Cary Grant: Hollywood's Leading Man
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TV Episode | 44 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Biography

Cary Grant: Hollywood's Leading Man

TV-14

TV Episode | 44 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Cary Grant was the very essence of a movie star - a man every woman loved and every man wanted to be. His deft comic style merged easily with his strength as a romantic leading man. The actor's suave exterior, however, concealed a complex ...See moreCary Grant was the very essence of a movie star - a man every woman loved and every man wanted to be. His deft comic style merged easily with his strength as a romantic leading man. The actor's suave exterior, however, concealed a complex and often sensitive individual. Cary's painful journey from his lonely working-class beginnings to the peak of Hollywood royalty is made vivid through family photos, archival footage, clips from many of his films - including his first, following his discovery by blonde bombshell Mae West, starring role in She Done Him Wrong. See less

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19 cast members

Name	Known for
Peter Bogdanovich Self Self See fewer	The Last Picture Show (1971)
Virginia Cherrill Self - Grant's First Wife (archive footage) Self - Grant's First Wife (archive footage) See fewer	City Lights (1931)
Betsy Drake Self - Grant's Third Wife (archive footage) Self - Grant's Third Wife (archive footage) See fewer	Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)
Irene Dunne Lucy Warriner / Julie Gardiner (archive footage) Lucy Warriner / Julie Gardiner (archive footage) See fewer	The Awful Truth (1937)
Cary Grant Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	North by Northwest (1959)
Jennifer Grant Self - Daughter of Grant and Cannon (archive footage) Self - Daughter of Grant and Cannon (archive footage) See fewer	Babylon (I) (2022)
Jean Harlow Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	China Seas (1935)
Barbara Harris Self - Grant's Fifth Wife (archive footage) Self - Grant's Fifth Wife (archive footage) See fewer	Becoming Cary Grant (2017)
Howard Hawks Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Rio Bravo (1959)
Katharine Hepburn Sylvia Scarlett / Susan Vance / Tracy Lord (archive footage) Sylvia Scarlett / Susan Vance / Tracy Lord (archive footage) See fewer	The Lion in Winter (1968)
Barbara Hutton Self - Grant's Second Wife (archive footage) Self - Grant's Second Wife (archive footage) See fewer
Richard Kiley Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Jurassic Park (1993)
Elsie Leach Self - Grant's Mother (archive footage) Self - Grant's Mother (archive footage) See fewer
Dina Merrill Self Self See fewer	BUtterfield 8 (1960)
Nancy Nelson Self - Biographer Self - Biographer See fewer	The 26th (2005)
Bob Pender Self - Showman (archive footage) Self - Showman (archive footage) See fewer	Hands Up!; or, Captured by Highwaymen (1904)
Babe Ruth Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Speedy (1928)
Randolph Scott Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Roberta (1935)
Lowell Thomas Self - Newsreel Narrator (archive sound) Self - Newsreel Narrator (archive sound) See fewer	The Blonde Captive (1931)