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Cary Grant

A master of sophisticated comedy and romantic suspense who made elegance look effortless.

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Grant could move from pratfall to menace to romance in a single scene, making him one of the era’s most flexible leading men.

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Films in the collection

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1933 · Comedy

She Done Him Wrong

Mae West adapts her stage persona to film in a compact showcase of innuendo and comic control.

1938 · Screwball comedy

Bringing Up Baby

A paleontologist, an heiress, a leopard, and a missing bone collide in screwball comedy at full speed.

1940 · Screwball comedy

His Girl Friday

A newspaper editor tries to lure his star reporter and ex-wife back into one last story.

1940 · Romantic comedy

The Philadelphia Story

Hepburn’s heiress faces an ex-husband, a reporter, and a wedding in a sharply written comedy of class and self-knowledge.

1946 · Spy thriller

Notorious

Romance, espionage, and distrust intertwine as Bergman infiltrates a Nazi circle in Rio.

1955 · Romantic thriller

To Catch a Thief

A retired jewel thief tries to clear his name along the French Riviera.

1959 · Thriller

North by Northwest

A case of mistaken identity sends Grant across America in one of Hitchcock’s sleekest chase films.

1963 · Romantic thriller

Charade

Hepburn and Grant navigate murder, stolen money, and shifting identities in a Paris-set suspense comedy.