It's a steep chase up Mount Rushmore. Photo: Lenin Imports
It's Cary Grant's birthday. Let's go armchair traveling around the world with the matinee idol and his legendary lady friends.
Grant, mistaken for a spy, is pursued across the country in Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). With Eva Saint Marie in tow.
Grant as Roger O. Thornhill (Audio clip courtesy of CaryGrant.net)
North by Northwest trailer
North by Northwest (Amazon)
All sorts of unexpected guests show up at the Lord mansion in screwball comedy The Philadelphia Story (1940).
Stewart and Grant as Macaulay Connor and C.K. Dexter Haven (Audio clip courtesy of CaryGrant.net)
A drunk Jimmy Stewart and a bathrobed Cary Grant (YouTube)
The Philadelphia Story (Amazon)
Cary Grant recruits Ingrid Bergman to spy on her father's Nazi pals in Notorious, the tense Hitchcock thriller set in Rio de Janeiro.
Bergman as Alicia Huberman (Audio clip courtesy of CaryGrant.net)
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman (YouTube)
Notorious (Amazon)
In Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1955), Grant plays a reformed jewel burglar who has retired to the French Riviera. It's swimming, sunning, and tanning in truly superlative form.
Grant as John Robie (Audio clip from CaryGrant.net)
To Catch a Thief - trailer with great Rivera shots (YouTube)
To Catch a Thief (Amazon)
Doris Day and Cary Grant escape to Bermuda in much-ado-about-nothing rom com That Touch of Mink (1962).
Grant as Philip Shayne (Audio clip courtesy of CaryGrant.net)
That Touch of Mink trailer (YouTube)
That Touch of Mink (Amazon)
Alpine ski resort Megève appears in the opening scene of thriller Charade (1963). It's where Audrey Hepburn's character meets Cary Grant's for the first time.
Grant and Hepburn as Peter Joshua and Regina Lampert (Audio clip courtesy of CaryGrant.net)
Charade opening scene (YouTube)
Charade (Amazon)
She Done Him Wrong (1933) takes place at a seedy nightclub on the Bowery in New York City in the 1890s.
West and Grant as Lady Lou and Captain Cummings (audio clip)
Cary Grant with Mae West, "Why don't you come up sometime. And see me." (YouTube)
She Done Him Wrong (Amazon)
Cary Grant was born to move. With debonair style and a transatlantic accent, he looked as much at ease strolling the Riviera as he did scaling Mount Rushmore. At least in the movies.
In 1920, at the age of 16, Grant (then Archibald Alexander Leach) left his hometown of Bristol, England, to join a stilt-walking troupe heading to the States. He traveled the world with a vaudeville gang gathering skills in acrobatics, juggling, and pantomime before picking up roles in Hollywood opposite such small-timers as Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, and Audrey and Katharine Hepburn.
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