“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”
Archibald Alexander Leach created the stage name Cary Grant and it seems that he even wanted to be Cary Grant as well. The title of this blog post is a quote from the great man himself. He was born in Bristol, England but later in his life once he reached the Hollywood leading man status he gained American citizenship.
He was nominated twice for an Academy Award but only ever won an honorary Oscar. Grant has often been voted the greatest movie star of all time – if not coming first he is very near the top. His charisma and on-screen presence really was just incredible, he had a brilliant charm and manner that it was impossible not to love him.
Mae West really helped to launch his Hollywood career when casting him in ‘I’m No Angel’ and ‘She Done Him Wrong’. Two films I totally adore with having West and Grant in them, they really do have fantastic on-screen chemistry. She totally dominated him at times in the films, but still managed to show what a fantastic leading man he would become.
My favorite film starring Grant has to be ‘An Affair to Remember’ mainly because it was the first of his films that I ever watched and I really fell in love with both Grant and the film. It was a classic old style film, with a great love story and how can you not love that? It was Hollywood and our main two characters barely even kissed on-screen yet it was incredible how moving the film is. It will always be one of my favorite ever films. I still have a lot of Grant’s films to catch up on!
He is everything that you would want from a leading man on film, but also everything a woman wants from a man as well. He has the charm, the good looks, the lines and the attitude – they really aren’t like that anymore at all. He set a fantastic standard and was probably the best possible choice for James Bond – and yet did not ever play the role. Although he was supposed to be wanted for it. I am sure everyone can agree that we could easily imagine Grant as 007 because of his charm and brilliant on-screen presence.
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