Cary Grant: Difference between revisions

In a career that spanned thirty years, some of his more famous films were the screwball comedies ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' and ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', the comedy-soap opera ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]'', and [[Gentleman Thief|several collaborations]] with the director [[Alfred Hitchcock]], most notably ''[[North Byby Northwest]]''. He retired from acting in 1966, feeling, perhaps correctly, that as he aged the movie world was beginning to pass him by.

In 1970, he happily accepted an honorary Oscar for his body of work, but he never again appeared on-screen. In later years, he married a succession of beautiful younger women, experimented with LSD as a means of confronting his inner demons... and when a fan magazine sent a telegram reading HOW OLD CARY GRANT?, famously wrote in response [[Crowning Moment of Funny|OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU?]]<ref> Grant was quoted as [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|denying this actually happened]], but if it didn't, it should have..</ref>

One of GrantsGrant's most famous (and easily imitated) characteristics was [[Verbal Tic|his rhythmic speech pattern]], which his fans thought added to the air of sophistication of his characters. Ironically, he actually spoke that way to keep his working-class Bristol accent at bay. In the film ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'', Tony Curtis did a riff on Grant's deliberate cadencing whenever his character pretended to be a millionaire playboy. Jack Lemmon's character confronted him on this with the line "where did you get [[Mid-Atlantic Accent|that phony accent]]? No-bawdy tawks loik theht!"