"MAN:" "Not yet, Cary." "Not yet, Cary." "CARY:" "Hmm." "MAN:" "Okay, Cary." "Now." "Hi!" "Been seeing me in your dreams?" "MAN:" "When you say movie star Cary Grant epitomizes that persona." "It fit him." "WOMAN:" "First of all, he was the most beautiful-Iooking human being." "The camera loved him." " Something about my face." " It's a nice face." "MAN:" "Cary Grant is the ideal fantasy figure." "The absolute essence of glamour and sophistication, attractiveness and smarts." "You're losing your eye." "You used to pitch better than that." "WOMAN:" "He had such fun in performing, you could see that in the performance." "He was so full of joy and you could see it in his body you could see it on his face." "He just let it all out." "Oh, I'm so sorry." "It never looked like he was acting." "You thought that was Cary Grant, off-screen and on-screen." "Watching Cary in a film, it seems effortless." "It seems he's playing himself." "What looked easy was a terrible emotional complication for him." "I think he was a street fighter." "I trusted him and I fell in love with him and I was unable really to cope with him." "We're only human, you know." "You..." "All of you with your sophisticated ideas." "Ain't it awful?" "When you talked to Cary, you never could get past the Cary Grant persona." "Dry your eyes, baby, it's out of character." "He keeps you on your toes." "He keeps you edgy." "You just never feel relaxed with him entirely." "He's too dangerous, too smart." "He was a work in progress." "Hollywood gave him a name but he was the person who was going to transform himself from Archie Leach to Cary Grant." "Everybody wanted to be Cary Grant." "Cary said:" ""Even I'd like to be Cary Grant."" "There was no way he could possibly embody all the facets that he portrayed." "MAN:" ""For more than half my 58 years I have peered from behind the façade of a man known as Cary Grant." "The protection of that façade proved both an advantage and a disadvantage." "If I couldn't see out, how could anyone see in?"" "People wanted to be associated with Cary they wanted to be part of him in some way or another." "Whether it be that they wanted him to be Jewish because they were Jewish to be gay because they were gay so that they could've been in some tiny, tiny little part of his life." "It is much more difficult to take ahold of his persona his career, nail it down than people realize." "That's why he was so clever about never really giving interviews never talking about himself, never letting anyone penetrate." "NARRATOR:" "The one exception was a series of autobiographical essays  Grant wrote in 1963." "You know where I grew up?" "In a one-room shack with a dirt floor." "You talk about this side of your family and that side." "As far as I know, we only had one side, and it was awful poor." "MAN:" ""I was born in Bristol, England in 1904." "My family name is Leach, to which was added Archibald Alexander with no opportunity for me to protest."" "It hadn't been a very happy childhood." "His parents were not happily married." "MAN:" ""They were named Elias and Elsie Leach." "My father earned his money pressing suits and progressed too slowly to satisfy my mother's dreams."" "MAN:" "They rowed about everything." "He always felt that he'd been responsible." "MAN: "My parents did not seem particularly happy together and I seemed to be caught in a battle which eventually took residence inside my own character."" "NARRATOR:" "Returning home from school one day  a 9-year-old Grant discovers that his mother is gone." "He was told his mother had gone to the seaside, and she never came back." "He was filled with guilt that he'd done something." "MAN:" ""There was a void in my life a sadness of spirit that affected each daily activity." "There was no further explanation of Mother's absence."" "BARBARA:" "His father had an affair with another woman and a child with her so it was very difficult for him in many ways." "NARRATOR:" "Miserable at school and with little parental supervision  Grant cuts class to attend local stage shows." "Eager to belong, his constant presence and sheer persistence  lands him a job as a lighting apprentice at the Empire Theater." "MAN: "The Saturday matinee was in full swing when I arrived backstage and that's when I knew." "What other life could there be but that of an actor?" "They were classless and cheerful." "They traveled and toured." "I had a place to be, and people let me be there."" "WOMAN:" "He learned about the Pender Troupe, and he wanted to join the group." "So he sent Bob Pender a letter and signed his father's name." "BARBARA:" "Pender got the letter, accepted Cary and all hell broke loose because the father didn't know where he had gone." "Eventually he traced him and he was, of course, returned and went back to school and then was eventually expelled from school and finally went running back again happily to the Pender group." "NELSON:" "They traveled all through Great Britain to all of the provinces." "This is where he learned pantomime and juggling and pratfalls." "It's where he learned his timing something that he carried with him through the rest of his career." "NARRATOR:" "In 1920, the Pender Troupe sails for America  to play New York's Hippodrome Theater." "MANN:" "It was extraordinary that this kid had gone with the Pender Group to New York and then, when they went back to England, he stayed on." "He was only 18 years old, all by himself." "BARBARA:" "It was very tough." "He hardly had any money at all." "He was doing virtually anything he could do including walking on stilts to promote Coney Island and selling ties on the street corner." "I mean, literally, anything." "NARRATOR:" "All the while, a determined Grant auditions endlessly  and slowly begins to book jobs on the vaudeville circuit." "MAN: "I strove to make everything I did at least appear relaxed." "Perhaps by relaxing outwardly, I could eventually relax inwardly." "Sometimes I even began to enjoy myself on stage."" "Now under contract by the Hammerstein Organization  it is not until 1927 that he appears in Golden Dawn  his first of many Broadway productions." "He was now a leading man on Broadway and his friends then became John Quickney and Henry Ford." "He would be around somebody that he'd admire, and he'd learn." "I daresay, he learned from these playboys from New York who were all rich, came from good families knew how to dress, knew how to behave." "Grant absorbs all he can from high society  while continuing to perform in season after season  of operettas, dramas and light comedy." "He had now been performing on the stage for almost half his life." "And in 1929, Grant is asked to do a screen test." "When he took his first screen test for Fox, he was rejected." "BARBARA:" "He was told he didn't have a hope." "His neck was too thick, and he was a little bow-legged." "So whoever that was was maybe a little shortsighted." "NARRATOR:" "Undaunted by Fox's refusal, a resourceful Grant  is hired by Paramount for $ 150 for six days ' work  in his first screen appearance." "Sprechen Sie nicht English?" "No?" "Well, I sprechen sehr gut Chinese to you." "You and me, we chop suey through the park." "We chow mein." "Mmm." "Hey?" "Hong Kong?" "Ping-Pong?" "What do you say?" "NARRATOR:" "From this inauspicious start  Grant is convinced that he has a future in film." "He drives to Los Angeles  and after meeting the head of Paramount at a party  is signed within a matter of weeks." "The studio immediately requests that Archie Leach change his name." "Taking Cary from his character in the play Nicky  and his surname from a list of studio suggestions  Cary Grant signs a five-year contract." "Almost immediately, Grant is given prominent roles  alongside Paramount's leading ladies  including Carole Lombard and Marlene Dietrich." "BASINGER:" "There's where he's learning his movie craft." "He is learning to listen, to respond to the leading lady to know where the focus is supposed to be." "NARRATOR:" "Grant is 29 when Mae West casts him  as her love interest in She Done Him Wrong." " Well, then." "Guess I'm taking your time." " What do you suppose my time's for?" "Sit down." "He's now only a pretty boy in Mae West movies." "He's like upholstery." "He's just there to be her straight man." "That's it." "Loosen up, unbend." "You'll feel better." "He was very stiff." "He said, "You notice how my hand is in my pocket because I didn't know what to do with my hands."" "MANN:" "One of the few people that he totally disliked was Mae West who always claimed that she had made him a star." "And he said, "Listen, I'd made half a dozen movies before that."" "So, you know, he felt he had his own credentials." "He didn't need Mae West yammering on about how she'd made him a star." "Come up again, anytime." "Thanks, I will." "NARRATOR:" "Nonetheless, She Done Him Wrong  is the young actor's biggest hit to date." "After appearing in eight films in less than a year  Grant turns his attention towards his personal life." " Hello, darling." "Have a nice trip?" " Lovely." " Say, where'd you get the flowers?" " From an admirer." "Not bad." "The first time Cary met Virginia Cherrill was at one of the parties at the Marion Davies' house." "She was a Chicago socialite, beautiful had some fame because she played the little blind girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights." "NARRATOR:" "After a brief engagement, Grant marries Cherrill in 1934." "Cary's first wife, Virginia Cherrill, made a remark which I think is very apropos." ""I was in love with Cary." "Cary was in love with himself." "I didn't stand a chance."" "MAN: "I doubt if either of us was capable of relaxing sufficiently to trust the happiness we might have had." "My possessiveness and fear of losing her brought about the very condition it feared." "The loss of her."" "NARRATOR:" "The couple divorced after less than a year of marriage  and Grant returns to the Malibu beach house  that he had been sharing with fellow actor, Randolph Scott." "Although Grant was now earning a comfortable living as a working actor  he had yet to give a standout performance." "He was a successful, young leading man who was nice-Iooking but had no particular identity." "You can see him evolve in the movies in the first few years." "His presence is straight leading man, perfectly adequate likable, almost too good-Iooking, without a lot of depth and there's glimmers in a picture here, a picture there but it explodes in Sylvia Scarlett." "There's room for both of us here." "Come on, get your pajamas, let's get curled up." " But..." "But..." " But, but, but what?" "NARRATOR:" "Grant is loaned out to RKO to star opposite Katharine Hepburn  in George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett." "Jimmy Monkley, friend of the world, nobody's enemy but me own." "Yeah, I can tell that by the look of you." " Hey!" "DRAKE:" "He meets Kate..." "A bit ticklish, aren't you?" "...who is playing a boy in disguise." "Well, toodle-Ioo." "See you later." "DRAKE:" "He played the sublime cockney, absolutely relaxed." "He's himself and he's funny." "He knew what this character was, and he gave a marvelous performance." "Gentlemen adventurer, one of the hawks." ""Orcs"?" "Oh, hawks, hawks." "Yeah, hawks." "The word "hawks."" "Sparrows and hawks, that's humanity." "The hawks boss it over the sparrows, that's nature." "You want to be a sparrow?" "Look at them all around you." "What are they?" "Mere slaves." "Me?" "I'm out to beat the system." "Easy come, easy go." "That's my motto." "NARRATOR:" "The film is a dismal failure for the director and his star." "Yet Grant emerges not only unscathed but more popular than ever." "The fact that Cary was being utterly dishonest charmingly unscrupulous, seemed to fit Cary." "CUKOR:" "He got the right part." "He suddenly flowered." "He suddenly felt the ground under his feet." "NARRATOR:" "Exhilarated after working with Cukor and Hepburn  Grant returns to his home studio with little enthusiasm." "NELSON:" "He quickly became discontented with his arrangement at Paramount because his roles were uninspired and the projects were not very interesting." "So he became an independent which was really unheard of back in those days." "BARBARA:" "Extremely brave at that stage and it's a perfect example of how bright Cary was." "He knew what he was capable of doing and he wanted to change the mix a tiny bit." "And he was extremely successful, got a percentage of the gross and he actually asked for a percentage of some of the films." "I remember once talking to him about Penny Serenade, he says:" ""Yeah, I just got a check on that."" "I thought, "Jesus, that was 1941." "He had already got a piece of the action."" "He got where he was by working very, very hard." "Most self-made men, they say, "Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps."" "And Cary said that to me." "And I said, "First of all how many people in the world with bootstraps look like you?"" "NARRATOR:" "Perfectly aware that his looks have been an asset  Grant is eager to show the audience what he is capable of." "He jumps at the chance to work with director Leo McCarey and Irene Dunne  in The Awful Truth." " Well..." " How are you?" "I'm glad..." " Excuse me, what do you say?" " I say, I'm glad to know you." "How can you be glad to know me?" "I know how I'd feel if I were sitting with a girl and her husband walked in." " I'll bet you do." "The Awful Truth was the birth of the Cary Grant we came to know and love." "MAN:" "He was wonderful, physically." "He could do wonderful pratfalls and slapstick." "The fact that he threw his whole being into it, no holds barred." "MAN:" "It was the first time you saw a leading man in that kind of comedy being funny, really funny." "It was usually up to the woman." " May I have a drink?" "WOMAN:" "Certainly." "I had three or four before I got here, but they're beginning to wear off." "BASINGER:" "The Awful Truth is an Irene Dunne movie." "She's the center of it." "She's on-screen more than he is." "I can't possibly interpret this as jealousy." "I've taken a definite turn for the better." "Nothing's gonna hurt me anymore." "BASINGER:" "She could not do the part she does to the level she does it without a partner of his stature and ability." "(DOG BARKS)" "Take it." "NARRATOR:" "Though this was regarded as his breakthrough role  Grant is initially resistant to his director." "BOGDANOVICH:" "The way Cary worked was he would improvise the scenes." "When he couldn't think of what to do, he'd say, "Hold it."" "He'd go and play the piano for a while and think about it." "Then he'd come back and say, "Okay."" "MAN:" "At the end of the first day, Irene was crying." "She didn't know what kind of a part she was playing." "Cary said, "Let me out of this and I'll do another picture for nothing."" "That's how we did it." "We never had a script." "NARRATOR:" "The chaos worked." "McCarey would go on to win an Oscar and Grant became a star." "HARVEY:" "The performance he was afraid of giving in The Awful Truth turned him into the Cary Grant that we all know." "BELLAMY:" "Cary caught on quickly." "It was right in his groove, his kind of comedy, of humor." "He could laugh with you as you were watching him." "He knew you were laughing, and he was encouraging it." "HARVEY:" "That's what it's about, falling in love by being funny with each other." "(SINGS AND CHUCKLES)" "He's really the only male star that was made by screwball comedy." "Because usually that genre, that style made women stars." "It didn't make male stars." "NARRATOR:" "Grant is now one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood." "Consumed by work, he rarely returns to Bristol  staying in touch with his remaining family by mail." "Months after his father's death in 1935  a lawyer handling the estate writes Grant with news." "His mother is still alive." "MAN: "I learned that she had experienced a nervous breakdown and been taken to an institution." "I was a full-grown man living in America thousands of miles away in California." "I was known by most people of the world by sight and by name yet not to my own mother."" "Reunited, mother and son begin an uneasy relationship." "DRAKE:" "Cary had brought her a fur coat he had made for her in New York." "And Cary told me, she looked at him and she said:" ""Archie, I've never seen so many wrinkles in me life."" "And it devastated him." "Devastated him." "NARRATOR:" "Grant throws himself back into work  and his next film reunites him with Katharine Hepburn  in the story of a scientist, a madcap heiress and a lost dinosaur bone." "Bringing Up Baby is Grant's introduction  into the world of director Howard Hawks." "MAN:" "Grant is a little nervous about the part, didn't know how to approach it." "Hawks said, "Think of Harold Lloyd," and gave Grant the Harold Lloyd glasses." "Hey, that's my ball." "McCARTHY:" "He ran with it." "GRANT:" "Oh, dear." " You shouldn't do that, you know." " But..." " What shouldn't I do?" " Talk while someone's shooting." "I forgive you because I got a good shot." "He runs into this harebrained heiress who is completely impervious to what anyone else is feeling." " Will you get out of my car?" " Get off my running board." " This is my running board!" " All right, honey!" "DENBY:" "She hears what he says, but she doesn't listen." "Even though Katharine Hepburn is driving him crazy he realizes she's bringing him alive in a way he's never been alive before." " You're angry, aren't you?" " Yes, I am." "The love impulse in man frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." " The what impulse?" " Love impulse." "The back of Hepburn's dress being torn off was come up with by Cary Grant." "I was only trying to be nice." "Thank you." "He had been first row of the balcony at the giant Roxy Theater in New York City." "His fly was open, and it got caught on the back of this woman's dress." "Instinctively, he just kind of got behind her and followed her out." "He mentioned this to Hawks, Hawks loved this and came up with one of the great sequences in American cinema." " Get behind me." " I am." " Get closer." " I can't get closer." " You ready?" "Be calm." "Left foot first." " All right." "(CROWD LAUGHING)" "It gets sillier and sillier, like A Midsummer Night's Dream with all sorts of misconceptions, they're out in the woods." "It's a kind of surreal screwball comedy." "SUSAN:" "Come on, Baby!" "Come on down." "Come on." "Oh, David, make him get down." "I suppose you'd like me to climb up and push him down." "Well..." "Well, maybe we better sing." "Well, sing, David." "Grant was concerned that he was changing or dropping his characterization that he established early on and Hawks said to him, "No, you're changing."" "Run, Susan, while you have the chance!" " No, I won't leave you." "I love you." " What?" "You are actually changing under the influence of this Katharine Hepburn character, so you are becoming a bit more normal." "I've discovered that was the best day I ever had in my whole life." "David, you don't mean that." "I never had a better time." "Even though the impression that he had is that it was a destructive influence in his life that's one thing that makes it so extraordinary." "Everybody is loony." "It's a one-of-a-kind movie." "Oh!" "Oh!" " David, can you ever forgive me?" " Oh, dear." " I, I..." " You can, and you still love me." " Susan, that..." " You do?" "Oh, David!" "Oh, dear." "Oh, my." "NARRATOR:" "It will be four years before Hepburn begins her historic  screen partnership with Spencer Tracy." "For the moment, she has found her perfect match in Grant." "Summed up by The New York Times as "two of the screen 's greatest actors  giving comedy everything they had  including a genuinely acrobatic intelligence"  they begin work on Holiday  once again for director George Cukor." " Hey!" " Hop." "Linda." "Holiday expresses the kind of joie de vivre that Cary had in life." "You get a sense of that in that picture." "HARVEY:" "When he enters this enormous mansion where Katharine Hepburn lives..." "Judas!" "...he's overwhelmed by it, and he has a kind of loose, shambling walk like he's still a country boy whose clothes didn't quite fit." "You accept him as a natural free spirit who..." "Trying to attain some respectability and earn money but that's not really who he is." "I've been working since I was 10, I want to find out why." "The answer can't be just to pay bills and to pile up more money." "The government takes most of it." "Yes, but what is the answer?" "I don't know." "That's what I intend to find out." "Here he is in Holiday challenging the ongoing attitude of the times." "I mean, that's a figure that belongs more in the 1960s or 1970s." "NARRATOR:" "During filming, Grant is able to combine a growing dramatic skill  with his characteristic light touch." "CUKOR:" "He developed this style of comedy and this dash, this dapper thing." "You see, he didn't depend on his looks." "He wasn't a narcissist." "He acted as though he were just an ordinary young man." "That made it all the more appealing." "When things get tough, when I feel a worry coming on you know what I do." "There!" "And then the worries are over." "NARRATOR:" "Fulfilling a boyhood fantasy  Grant leaves the confines of the sound stage  for George Stevens ' Gunga Din." "Thrilled at the chance to carouse in the style of his idol, Douglas Fairbanks Sr  Grant stars alongside the icon 's son." "The spirited atmosphere on the set  even extends itself to one important casting decision." "MAN:" "Cary said that he was interested in Gunga Din and I said, "Which part did you want me to play?"" "He said, "Toss a coin," and it was decided as simply as that." "And that's how it happened that I won the girl." "NARRATOR:" "Second only to Gone With the Wind  as the year's biggest moneymaker, Grant would often count the film as one of his favorites." "Gunga Din really was the Star Wars of its time." "It captivated kids in that same way." "Hey, take your hands off that man!" "NARRATOR:" "Grant now adds action hero to his résumé." "LANDAU:" "Cary Grant was always Cary Grant but different textures of Cary Grant." "Within his parameters and within that perimeter there's a lot of stuff." "He had the great ability of being able to play everything from slapstick, fall-down comedy to dramatic stuff with a sense of danger." "NARRATOR:" "Director Howard Hawks casts Grant in his first dramatic leading role:" "1939's Only Angels Have Wings." "MAN:" "There he is!" " Joe!" "Joe!" "Pull her up!" "Pull her up!" "MAN:" "I've known a lot of flyers, and I've seen a lot of forced landings." "They don't sit and moan about what will happen when they hit the ground." "Doesn't do them any good to dramatize it." "NARRATOR:" "Hardened by the constant danger  Grant's character is unyielding in the film 's most celebrated scene." "Haven't you any feelings?" "Don't you realize he's dead?" " Who's dead?" " Yeah, who's dead?" " Joe!" " Joe?" " Who's Joe?" " Anybody know Joe?" "There's a kind of ethos of stoicism which grows out of male companionship or men doing something they know is dangerous." "The only way to get through extreme danger is with a high spirit and we'll stick together and that's the way we'll get through it." "You...!" "Wait a minute, you little fool." "Why don't you use your head?" " Come on, stop it." " How can you act like this with that poor kid...?" " He's dead." " Yes, he's dead." " That's right." "He's been dead about 20 minutes and all the weeping in the world won't make him any deader 20 years from now." "If you feel like bawling, how do you think we feel?" " I'm sorry." "McCARTHY:" "An incredible performance and if you didn't have someone as magnetic and likable as Cary Grant it would be possibly a very tough character to take because he treats people very callously." "He treats life very callously." "But Hawks knew how to use movie stars and he very shrewdly used Cary Grant." "I don't know who else could've pulled off that part." "NARRATOR:" "In direct contrast to his film persona  Grant's off-screen living arrangement with Randolph Scott  continued to fuel rumors of the exact nature of their relationship." "BARBARA:" "Immediately they would say, "These two were living together." "There must've been something going on between them."" "It wasn't the case at all." "In fact, the house they had down on the beach was known to have women going in and out like running water just as the one that Niven had had alcohol going in and out like running water." "It was a different time." "NARRATOR:" "A series of early publicity photos  and the fact that Grant returns to live with Scott between marriages  confirms the idea for many that the two were lovers." "BARBARA:" "They were good friends and those photos were taken in a house they were sharing and who knows who said:" ""Maybe you could go a little closer for the sake of the shot."" "And suddenly these two are living together as man and wife as opposed to just as friends." "NARRATOR:" "Indifferent to the gossip, Grant saved the newspaper clippings  and mementos charting their friendship in his scrapbooks." "Scott signs a menu from a memorable dinner party:" ""To my spouse, Cary."" "For goodness sakes, why would I believe that Cary was homosexual when we were busy fucking?" "Maybe he was bisexual, he lived 43 years before he met me." "I don't know what he did." "NARRATOR:" "Aware but indifferent to the rumors  the two even managed to poke fun at themselves in My Favorite Wife." "Once a rumor starts, it is just perpetuated." "As Cary would say, sometimes if no one can find anything bad to say about you you are a tightwad or you're homosexual." "NARRATOR:" "Grant and Scott remained lifelong friends  and though the rumors never fade, no damage is done to either man 's career." "Over 30 years will pass before Grant finally addresses the issue." "Listen..." "You won't be half as good on any other paper and you know it." "We're a team!" "You need me, and I need you..." "Sold to the American!" "NARRATOR:" "Grant and director Hawks reunite for His Girl Friday." "Thrown into the chaos is Rosalind Russell  in a remake of the stage classic The Front Page." "The film will become renowned for the speed of its dialogue." "I didn't think it was particularly fast, and in order to make His Girl Friday which was the same story, faster, we started using overlapping dialogue and we stepped it up about 20 percent." "Oh, Walter, you're wonderful in a loathsome sort of way." "Now, will you be quiet long enough for me to tell you what I came to say?" " I have a lunch date already." " Break it." "I cannot break it." "Take your hands off of me!" " What are you playing, osteopath?" " Temper." "You can't have people talking and saying important things at the same time." "They have to have a few words in front and a few behind that can be lost and out in the clear comes the stuff that you ought to hear." " I need that." " Answer me, Hildy." "You don't, do you?" "No." "Take those Miss America pictures off page six." "Tell me." "Please tell me the truth." "Wait a minute." " Look here, my good man." " You shut up, Burns." " How can I do anything...?" " You're doing all this." "She wanted to get away from you and everything you stand for but you're too smart." "The script was 180 pages, the movie is 90 minutes." "That means they were doing..." "They were shooting 30 seconds a page." "That stuff was going by fast." "McCARTHY:" "When Rosalind Russell realized how brilliant Cary Grant was at ad-libs she hired this writer to come up with some lines for her for the given situations that she knew she would be facing." "Would you mind if I sat down?" "There's been a lamp burning in the window for you, honey." "Here." "Oh, I jumped out that window a long time ago, Walter." "He's malevolent as Walter Burns." "He has such a range of mockery." " "Oh, Walter." HARVEY:" "Teasing." "I don't want to brag, but I've still got the dimple, and in the same place." "HARVEY:" "Taunting." " Listen, you insignificant square-toed, pimple-headed spy." "Do you realize what you're doing?" "Grant himself, apart from the character is lovable because he's obviously enjoying this." "(LAUGHING)" "All right, Hildy, you win." "I'm licked." "NARRATOR:" "The chemistry Grant is able to establish with another leading lady  is undeniable, and the film is a resounding success." "After a string of box-office failures, some of which included Grant  Katharine Hepburn returned to the stage  finding her signature role as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story." "Realizing this was her entrée back into films  Hepburn purchased the screen rights." "Requesting her dream cast, she was told that Clark Gable wasn 't interested  and Spencer Tracy unavailable." "Instead Hepburn was offered Jimmy Stewart  and $ 150,000 to find her third co-star." "Grant gladly accepted." "The Philadelphia Story is about giving Katharine Hepburn her comeuppance." "It's built around that." "It's built to throw water in her face and slap her down." "But he has to do it in a way that it's not overbearing where it's not too preachy, where you don't think:" ""God, you don't deserve her."" "Which is kind of a tough thing to do." "It's a really deft piece of playing." "No, you're slipping, Red." "I used to be afraid of that look the withering glance of the goddess." "I didn't think that alcohol would..." "Oh, shut up." "And he is, in his own way, despite the sarcasm and mockery and everything Ioyal to her, and shows that he knows her and wants her." "He needs to be asked again, because he screwed up the marriage." "You never had any understanding of my deep and gorgeous thirst." "That was your problem." "Granted." "But you took on that problem with me when you took me, Red." "You were no helpmate there." "You were a scold." "It was disgusting." "It made you so unattractive." "Well, that's a really hard scene to play because it's about explaining who you are, which is the worst thing any actor can be forced to do." "Strength is her religion, Mr. Connor." "She finds human imperfection unforgivable." "When I discovered my relationship to her was supposed to be not that of a loving husband and a good companion, but..." " Oh, never mind." " Say it." "But that of a kind of high priest to a virgin goddess." "Then my drinks grew deeper and more frequent, that's all." "NARRATOR:" "Grant is perfectly at ease with Hepburn and director George Cukor  free enough to bring unexpected depth  as well as spontaneity to his performance." " Oh, I wonder if I might borrow a drink." " Certainly, like coals to Newcastle." "BOGDANOVICH:" "There is a moment in Philadelphia Story that was according to Grant and Stewart, was improvised, is a scene when Jimmy Stewart comes to Cary Grant's house, and he's drunk." "And Jimmy Stewart hiccups." " Excuse me." " Hmm?" "BOGDANOVICH:" "That was thrown in." "You can see that Jimmy is amused, and Cary looks down." "He was amused that Jimmy was amused." "They almost broke up." "But that's unusual." "C.K. Dexter Haven, you have unsuspected depth." "Oh, thanks, old chap." "No matter how funny he was being there was the sense of a kind of serious person behind it a real person, really interesting, forceful person." "Oh, Dexter..." " I've done the most terrible thing to you." " To me?" "Oh, I doubt that." "I doubt it very much, dear." "You don't know." "You don't know." "Well, maybe I shouldn't then." "But you must." "You've got to." "I couldn't stand it if you didn't." "Dext, what am I going to do?" "But why to me, darling?" "Why ask me?" "Why do I come into it anymore?" "She doesn't need to go off with Jimmy Stewart." "She needs to return to the now non-alcoholic C. Dexter Haven who is the person that she belongs with." " Are you sure?" " I'll risk it." "Will you?" "You bet." "You didn't do it just to soften the blow?" " No, Tracy." " Nor to save my face?" " It's a nice little face." " Dext, I'll be yar." "I'll promise to be yar." " Be whatever you like." "Are you all set?" " All set." "NARRATOR:" "The film is a hit and Hepburn is back on top." "When the Oscar nominees are announced, only Grant is overlooked." "The film is selected in every major category  and Jimmy Stewart wins as Best Actor of the Year." "Cary gave his entire salary from The Philadelphia Story to British War Relief." "He worked a great deal for war relief programs and he visited army camps and he toured with other actors and actresses." "NARRATOR:" "Too old to serve, Grant would continue to donate  portions of his salary throughout World War II." "Now 36, Grant is paired once again with Irene Dunne  and director George Stevens in Penny Serenade." "BASINGER:" "Penny Serenade is one of only two films in which Cary Grant received an Oscar nomination, and significantly he didn't play the Cary Grant persona in either one of them." " Have you got a Victrola inside?" " Why, yes, of course." "Would you let me hear this one?" "Otherwise I'll have to take it home and imagine how it sounds." " Don't you have a machine at home?" " No." "Well, why on earth did you buy a 27...?" "BASINGER:" "He plays an ordinary man." "There is no tuxedo in this role." "He is a guy who doesn't achieve much." "But the wonderful scene, and unlike anything else in his career is when he confronts an unsympathetic judge to beg to keep the little baby." "Look, judge, we've had her over a year now." "Why, we've walked the floor with her when she had the colic." "We've lost nights of sleep worrying every time she cut a tooth." "We've gone through everything that real parents have with their own." "BOGDANOVICH:" "It's a very powerful scene, heartfelt, clearly." "He loved to make movies about children." "Many of the productions he set up for his own company had children involved." "Look, I'm not a big shot now." "I'll do anything." "I'll work for anybody." "I'll beg." "I'll borrow." "I'II..." "Please, judge, I'll sell anything I've got until I get going again." "Only, she'll never go hungry or go without clothes." "Not as long as I've got two good hands." "NARRATOR:" "A disappointed Grant would lose the Oscar to Gary Cooper  for his performance in Sergeant York." "But intent on exploring new roles  Grant begins production on Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion  in the spring of 1941." "This will be the first of four films with the director who delights  in unconventional casting, enlisting Grant to play a suspected murderer." "Now, what did you think I was trying to do?" "Kill you?" "Nothing less than murder could justify such violent self-defense." " Look at you." " Let me go." "NARRATOR:" "On the heels of her Oscar- nominated performance in Rebecca  22-year-old Joan Fontaine co-stars." "It's based on a novel in which a rather shady lady-killer marries an heiress who is obviously a fortune hunter, and it leads up to his actually killing his wife." "NARRATOR:" "Unusual for a Hitchcock film, there is a great deal of tension on the set." "The script is incomplete." "Production drags on for five months  and Grant and Fontaine do not get along." "Suspicion is a botch, but he's very exciting in it." "It's one of the few films in which he's downright unpleasant." "Johnnie, get some water, quick." "It won't help." "I've seen this happen before." "There's nothing much you can do." "Oh, it's no use, darling." "It'll either kill him or go away by itself." "HARVEY:" "They never quite made up their mind about who this character was supposed to be." "They never made the basic decisions you make about a character when you tell an actor what the part is about." "What do you know about business?" "Oh, very little." "I was only..." "Suppose Beaky had taken him seriously." "You'd ruin the scheme." " You realize that?" " Yes, but it wasn't any good." "That's my business, not yours." "If I say it's good, it's good." "NARRATOR:" "Grant's character, a perplexing blend of charm and menace  poses a dilemma for Hitchcock and RKO, forcing them to shoot two endings." "In the original novel, Grant's character gives his wife a glass of poisoned milk." "Before drinking it, she hands him an envelope." "The letter inside names Grant as her killer." "The story ends as he happily strolls to the mailbox  unknowingly sealing his doom." "Hitch said you can't have Cary Grant be a murderer, because it's Cary Grant." "NARRATOR:" "Using a combination of new and previously shot scenes  an ending is patched together." "MITCHELL:" "They were setting the entire movie on fire before your very eyes because by negating what has come up until that point it's an embarrassment." "NARRATOR:" "Nonetheless, Grant's persona remains intact." "Fontaine wins the Oscar for her role  and Suspicion becomes RKO 's most profitable film of the year." "By the end of 1940 and coming into early '41 you see The Philadelphia Story, Penny Serenade, Suspicion." "He can be a sophisticated, comedy, leading romantic man." "He can be a suspected murderer that's a complex character and he can be an ordinary, down-to-earth, simple family man." "Now, that's remarkable." "And no one ever thinks about this with Grant." "They have this one, much more narrow idea of who he is on film." "NARRATOR:" "Grant begins dating Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton  while shooting The Philadelphia Story." "In early 1942, he becomes an American citizen  and marries Hutton, all within two weeks." "The press has a field day." "America 's richest woman has married America 's biggest movie star  earning the couple the nickname "Cash and Cary."" "WOMAN:" "Cary was married to my cousin Barbara Hutton and that's how I first met him." "I was about 16, I guess, or 17." "She was very beautiful, very beautiful." "She had these beautiful dark eyebrows and huge blue eyes." "She was gorgeous." "Cary gravitated towards women of refinement." "You see it now twice:" "Virginia Cherrill and now Barbara Hutton." "MERRILL:" "She was a difficult personality." "She had a very difficult childhood." "Her mother died when she was 8." "Her father was an alcoholic." "That was my father's brother." "NELSON:" "The one thing that they had in common was the fact that neither one of them had the love nor the care of a mother." "NARRATOR:" "A bright spot in the marriage is Lance Reventlow  Hutton 's son from her previous marriage to a Danish count." "I was married to Barbara Hutton's son, and Cary was literally a father to him." "NARRATOR:" "The victim of a bitter custody battle  Lance prefers Grant to his own father." "They had a wonderful relationship." "Cary adored him, and Lance adored Cary." "And it was a deep relationship." "NARRATOR:" "Despite Lance, Grant and Hutton 's marriage quickly unravels  as the two struggle with Grant's work ethic  versus Hutton 's constant need to be entertained." "Her friends didn't work." "Most of them were sycophants." "I knew some of those people later in my life, and he was right to not like them." "They weren't that particularly terrific." "MAN: "Our marriage had little foundation for a promising future." "Our backgrounds were completely unalike." "Perhaps that in itself was the initial attraction."" "ST." "JOHN:" "Cary and I talked about it many times and he said, "You know when you have that much money, people treat you differently."" "And Cary was treated differently because he was an icon." "The difference there is Cary knew why he was being treated differently." "Barbara didn't." "NARRATOR:" "The couple separate two years later, and in 1945 finally divorce." "But they certainly remained friends." "I mean, she would call him right up to the time before she died and Cary was always very happy to talk to her." "NARRATOR:" "Grant's next project is his most personal." "At his insistence, RKO not only agrees to produce None But the Lonely Heart  but to hire screenwriter Clifford Odets to direct as well." " Anything in the shop needs mending?" " None that needs your help, Ernie." "Besides, it's Sunday." "Painting, polishing, doing a spot of gardening?" "Mean to do my best by you, Ma, love." "Happy couple, aren't we?" "None But the Lonely Heart, with Ethel Barrymore..." "He played a cockney, and she played his mum was very close to his origins." "And it's an unrelentingly grim film." "MAN: "In many ways, the part fit my nature better than the lighthearted fellows I was used to playing."" "When he tried to expand and work with Clifford Odets who was a close personal friend of his, trying to embody something else..." "It's fascinating, too, because he tried to use his physicality in this really sort of swaggering, butch kind of fashion." " Look." "Ain't I lovely?" " Rather dream, you are." "And it's about working-class squalor and despair, and the central situation is that he's come home to his mom at long last to be with her while she dies of cancer." "NARRATOR:" "Clearly Grant was playing a role written for someone half his age  affecting both the story and his performance." "Ethel Barrymore wins the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress  and although nominated for Best Actor, Grant loses to Bing Crosby  and is never nominated again." "It was a terrible flop, and he never looked back." "He took me to a preview of a movie, and he said:" "The very important thing is that no matter what people think of the movie or anything, keep smiling." "If you show that you're vulnerable and you show your feelings are hurt, you'll be destroyed and you mustn't, so keep smiling."" "BASINGER:" "There are four directors who had a real influence on the shaping of Cary Grant:" "Alfred Hitchcock, Leo McCarey, Howard Hawks and George Cukor." "MAN: "Each of those directors permitted me the release of improvisation during the rehearsal of each scene." "It permitted me to discover how far I could go with confidence, while guided by their quiet, sensitive approval."" "BASINGER:" "Leo McCarey gave him the pratfall, comedy persona." "Cukor adds the sophistication." "Hawks gives the masculinity, the adventure and then Hitchcock puts it all together and adds that little touch of mystery and insanity." "NARRATOR:" "The director had learned his lesson with Suspicion." "The Cary Grant persona had its limits." "With Notorious, Hitchcock achieves the perfect balance." "Grant stars with Ingrid Bergman as government agent T.R. Devlin." "There's one more drink left apiece." "Shame about the ice." "WOMAN:" "What is?" " It's gone." " What's gone?" " The ice." "BOGDANOVICH:" "Notorious is one of Hitchcock's two or three best pictures and it's one of Cary's most complicated performances." "NARRATOR:" "For Hitchcock, there was no such thing  as a straightforward love affair." "So despite Devlin 's feelings for Alicia  he gives her the task of seducing a Nazi criminal  and the audience watches as he struggles with his inner turmoil." "GRANT:" "You land him, find out what's going on inside his house what the group around him is up to and report to us." "I suppose you knew about this pretty little job of mine all the time." "No." "I only just found out about it." "He's very angry at her for acquiescing in this plan a little too quickly more quickly than he wants, and he treats her as a slut." "You can add Sebastian's name to my list of playmates." "Pretty fast work." " That's what you wanted, wasn't it?" " Skip it." "He is a son of a bitch in this movie." "I mean, he's manipulative and he's cold-hearted, and it's chilling to watch how good he is at it." "Listen, you chalked up another boyfriend." "No harm done." " I hate you." " There's no occasion to." "You're doing good work." "What makes the movie romantic is that his mistreatment of her is brought out because he's absolutely crazy about her." "I couldn't see straight or think straight." "I was a fatheaded guy full of pain." "It tore me up not having you." "MITCHELL:" "He didn't do that again after that movie though." "It's like a kind of a blip in his career and he went back to sort of being the more or less conventional Cary Grant and you feel the loss." "Miss Delwagon says that middle-class people like us..." "I know this is asking a lot, but just one morning I would like to sit down and have breakfast without social significance." "Jim, you must take more interest in your children's education." "Can't squeeze blood from a turnip." "When I was growing up, the big Cary Grant films were things like Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer and these were gigantic hits, and everybody responded to them." " I hope you like basketball." " Crazy about it." "MAN:" "I wrote a script called The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer." "I got an Oscar for that original screenplay." "And I'm convinced that I got it because of Cary." "Because it was a comedy and comedies usually aren't paid that much attention to by critics." "NARRATOR:" "Now in his mid-40s, Grant is keenly aware  of taking age-appropriate roles." "Home, fatherhood and daily life lead to a spate of uninspired, yet popular films." "There must be a girl who thinks it a wonderful career just to have a home and babies and make her husband happy." "There are a lot of crude movies in that period after Notorious where it's just kind of Cary Grant trading on the audience goodwill the fact that people would go see him in these movies." "And movies were getting more interesting." "NARRATOR:" "Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan and James Dean are among those  leading a generation of actors and directors into new territory." "DRAKE:" "I offended him because I had seen him in a picture called The Bishop 's Wife and I said to him, "You are in a position now where you can choose the most wonderful movies." "Why are you doing this?"" "He never answered because he was deeply offended and I learned to keep my mouth shut." "NARRATOR:" "Grant, reunited with director Howard Hawks, cannot overcome  the dated fountain-of-youth premise of 1952's Monkey Business." " Well, all set?" " Is your motor running?" "Is yours?" "PEABOD Y:" "Here you are, doctor." " Oh, thank you." "Just mail me the bill." "PEABOD Y:" "Certainly." " Takes a while to warm up." "Does me too." "Well, watch your head, I'll watch everything else." "He's basically still doing movies that you could've done in the '20s." "These could've been silent two-reeler movies, like Monkey Business or I Was A Male War Bride." "(MAN WHISTLING)" "Hey, did you hear that?" "I must look pretty good." " Don't be silly, that was for me." " For you?" " Of course." " I ought to punch him in the nose." "Remember, you're a lady." "He comes from an era in which acting was a way to make a living as opposed to being a way to express your inner demons." "It was a way to feed yourself, a way to feed your family to keep the wolf from the door." "DENBY:" "But that's also why he's so easy to take over a long period of time because even though he had fabulous qualities as an actor he didn't wanna squeeze the audience." "He doesn't wanna push you." "It's his job to do something that's fun, not to change your life." "LAUREN:" "He was the commodity." "If you wanted to be happy, you saw a Cary Grant movie." "MAN:" "And Cary Grant is asked to join the screen's immortals invited, that is, to make his imprint in the cement of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood." "NARRATOR:" "No matter what the critical response  Grant's films during this period never lose money at the box office." "MAN:" "Holiday season crowds line up around the block for the world premiere of the Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Show UI's new release, Operation Petticoat." "BOGDANOVICH:" "His most popular movie of his career was Operation Petticoat which was basically a family service comedy, slightly risqué." "MAN:" "Russell B. Downing, president of the Music Hall presents an illuminated scroll, honoring Grant as the famed New York show place's all-time favorite movie star and box-office champion." "MITCHELL:" "He didn't distinguish between those pictures that were terrible like Operation Petticoat or Walk, Don 't Run." "Those were pictures to him that were good because audiences went to them." "A good movie to Cary Grant was a movie that made money." "NARRATOR:" "Cary Grant's interest in money, whether in the workplace  or in his personal life, had been a favorite Hollywood topic for years." "I remember walking down the street with Cary Grant near Mt." "Rushmore and people asking him for his autograph, and he charged 25 cents." "And I thought, "I don't do that." "Maybe I should."" "DRAKE:" "He watched every penny and I think it was rooted in his childhood." "If you were lower class, you were nothing." "And he was..." "He was not about to be nothing." "SHELDON:" "Irving Reis, who directed The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer died and left a very young widow and two little children." "Cary, who wasn't particularly friendly with Irving gave Vanessa, his widow, $ 10,000." "I said, "I understand you gave her some money."" "He knew I was alluding to the fact that people said he didn't like spending money." "He said, "I like to pick my spots."" "NARRATOR:" "Though he is no longer as eager to take chances professionally  Grant's personal life is another matter." "Why don't you tell me all about yourself?" "Things you've never told anyone else." "DRAKE:" "I met Cary onboard the Queen Mary." "It was absolutely marvelous." "When I left the Queen Mary, I didn't think I'd see him again." "NARRATOR:" "Twenty years his junior actress Betsy Drake had just finished a successful stage run in London." "But when I left the ship, I didn't give him my telephone number." "He didn't know my telephone number." "He had to track me down." "NARRATOR:" "Endlessly pursued by Grant  Drake soon came out to Los Angeles to join him." "Having broken her first contract with producer Hal Wallace  Drake signed with RKO and was cast opposite Grant in her first film role." "How many have you?" "Hmm?" "Beg your pardon?" "These." "How many have you?" " Why, none, fortunately." " Fortunately?" "I'm not married." "We eloped so that there wouldn't be anybody bothering us." "However, married life took Drake by surprise." "He came from the first part of the 20th century." "Wives were expected to behave a certain way." "And Cary swallowed my life." "I lost myself in trying to please him." "Don't you find, by accepting this interesting challenge you're apt to neglect your husband?" " In what way?" "How many ways are there?" "(CROWD LAUGHING)" "Well, I assure you that whatever inconvenience he has been caused is temporary." "MAN:" "What I didn't know and what I learned later, really was that Cary was tired of being a sex symbol." "He wanted to play a father, and change his entire image and also this was a chance for him to make a picture with Betsy." "NARRATOR:" "But after two films with Drake, Grant's interest in fatherhood  remained firmly on the screen." "Cary knew from the very beginning I wanted children." "He refused and said, "I want to travel." "There's so much I want to do." "I really don't want a child."" "NARRATOR:" "The exception for Grant was Barbara Hutton 's son, Lance." "We visited him." "He was living with his governess and a dog on a ranch, ghost ranch in New Mexico." "DRAKE:" "I made an 8-mm movie with Lance and Cary called The Killer of Fossil Gulch." "NARRATOR:" "The bond between the two had grown stronger through the years." "DRAKE:" "In it, Cary was shot by Lance, and he did it so wonderfully." "So I kept in both shots when I cut it." "He wanted parents." "And, and, uh, uh..." "I was devoted to him, and I know Cary was." "NARRATOR:" "Tragically, Lance would die in a plane crash in 1972 at the age of 36." "It had been six years since the artistic triumph of Notorious." "During this time, for reasons that still remain a mystery  Grant turns down choice projects, such as Roman Holiday and Sabrina." "His uncompromising professionalism even keeps him away from A Star Is Born  directed by long-time friend George Cukor." "Judy wooed us." "She was so desperate, but she kept after Cary." "But Cary did not want to do it because Judy Garland was a drug addict and Cary was a highly disciplined actor and expected you to show up on time and know your lines." "And he didn't want to go through the experience." "NARRATOR:" "Instead, Grant and Drake leave Hollywood  fueling rumors that he had decided to retire." "He never spoke to me about retiring." "No, Cary loved to travel." "NARRATOR:" "The couple board a freighter for Asia  stopping to visit Gls wounded in the Korean War." "MANN:" "It was only because Hitchcock asked for him specifically, and sent him that great script, To Catch a Thief that he did come back." "The studio had wanted Jimmy Stewart." "But Hitchcock said, "No, I want Cary." And they got him." "NARRATOR:" "He returns to work with the director, who guaranteed  both Grace Kelly and the French Riviera as his co-stars." "BASINGER:" "One movie that illustrates that everything has come together perfectly for Grant is To Catch a Thief." "Here's Hitchcock at his light-entertainment best." "Here's the exquisitely beautiful Grace Kelly at the peak of her gorgeousness and Cary Grant playing a cat burglar, and it's just light." "We don't have too much of a mental challenge." "We're just going to have fun." "You got an opener?" "Thank you." " You want a leg or a breast?" " You make the choice." "In private life, he was a totally unsophisticated man." "He didn't know zilch about wines." "He didn't go to parties very much, and his idea of a great meal was sausage and mash at an English pub." "So there was this great schism between the person we saw and imagined him to be a guy in a tuxedo drinking a martini, and the real Cary." "You know as well as I do, this necklace is imitation." "Well, I'm not." "NARRATOR:" "The film is a huge hit and Grant leaves suburbia behind  and returns to the suave rake the public has come to love." "MAN:" "Here at 20th Century Fox Studio, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr and director Leo McCarey discuss their newest production:" "An Affair To Remember." "BOGDANOVICH:" "An Affair To Remember is an awfully powerful story." "The original picture is overall a better picture." "McCarey always thought it was a better picture, but the plot is pretty irresistible." "NARRATOR:" "Half comedy, half tragedy, the story of ill-fated lovers is practically  a shot-by-shot remake of director Leo McCarey's own 1939 Love Affair." "I have a telephone call for you from Paris." "Mr. Ferrante, would you autograph this for us?" "I hadn't seen one attractive woman on this ship since we left." "I was alarmed." "I said to myself, "Don't beautiful women travel anymore?"" "And then I saw you." "And I was saved, I hope." "Tell me." "Have you been getting results with a line like that?" "Even when he was having fun and laughing and making jokes at which he was excellent." "Order the bouillabaisse." "It's superb." "(SPEAKING IN FRENCH)" "Oh, shut up." "There was still this remoteness." "There was still this keeping something a secret." "NARRATOR:" "At the film 's climax  a stoic Grant discovers Kerr missed their rendezvous because of a terrible accident." "KERR:" "Cary was a devout believer in keeping to and following the kind of image that you have built up." "He always kept Cary Grant." "Why didn't you tell me?" "If it had to happen to one of us, why did it have to be you?" "There was a most unexpected vulnerability in Cary." "If I said fear, that wouldn't be right but he was wary of relationships with women." "NARRATOR:" "Betsy Drake had now been married to Grant for seven years." "During that time she had shown considerable talent as a writer." "And after working on several radio programs  Drake completed the screenplay to Houseboat." "Grant took the project to Paramount  as a third vehicle for the couple to star in  hoping to lock down a director before leaving for his next film." "I said, "Where are you going?" He said, "To Spain." "I'm making a picture called The Pride and the Passion with Frank Sinatra and some new Italian girl."" "NARRATOR:" "Grant arrives in Spain  and quickly begins an affair with a 23-year-old Sophia Loren." "BOGDANOVICH:" "I asked him about Sophia and him on The Pride and the Passion." "He says, "Yeah, well, we tore up a few bullrings in Spain."" "That was evidently a very dynamic affair." "He was crazy about her." "I think she was a bit "the girl that got away."" "SHAVELSON:" "I got a call from Cary." "He says, "I just met the new Garbo." "Would it be much to change the heroine of your story to an Italian girl?"" "And we tore up the script when he hung up the phone." "There was no way that would work." "NARRATOR:" "Drake was told nothing as both script and cast  were altered at Grant's request." "DRAKE:" "If I had any sense I would've realized how much Cary didn't love me." "He didn't." "SHAVELSON:" "Betsy never complained about anything." "She never asked for a credit because we had changed her story so much." "NARRATOR:" "Meanwhile, Grant's affair with Loren came to a bitter end  before shooting in Spain was over." "Now contractually obligated to co-star in the reworked Houseboat  Grant tried to back out of the film altogether." "SHAVELSON:" "Before the picture started, I held a peace conference." "Basically, I said, you know, "I know what your problems are." "I know what's been going on." Cary agreed to go through with the film." "Feeling that if he did, he might have a chance at getting back with Sophia." "He tried and the only way she finally got rid of him was to marry Carlo Ponti." " You shake her." " You scared?" " Yes, I'm scared." " Chicken." "In one scene, he was supposed to be dancing with Sophia in the nightclub." "What came through for me was the battle that was going on between the two of them at that moment." "But it didn't matter because the audience interpreted it as love." "It was very, very tough on the picture because of the relationship between the two of them." "It created a lot of tension." "By the time the picture finished, he had me in the hospital." "I had an ulcer." "When he heard that Sophia Loren was gonna write her autobiography he begged her not to mention him." "And, of course, she did mention him, and that was the end of that friendship." "DRAKE:" "When he told me, it was a big shock." "If I'd had any self-respect, I would've..." "I don't know, kicked him in the teeth and walked out." "But I didn't." "NARRATOR:" "Surprisingly, the couple stay together as Grant begins production  on what is arguably the highlight of his screen career." "LANDAU:" "You didn't have to introduce that character at length." "Bingo." "You knew who he was." "You were on his side, and you took the trip with him." "SAINT:" "There was no rehearsal." "This is Cary Grant." "You're gonna fall in love with him." "This is Eva Marie." "You're gonna fall in love with her." "And you start." "MAN:" "The adventure and the suspense was very important to him." "I wanted to do the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures." "BASINGER:" "We think of that film as a journey from New York City across country ending up in South Dakota at Mount Rushmore." "It's actually a journey through Cary Grant's various persona aspects and of all the career things that he's done over the years." "NARRATOR:" "A seamless blend of romance, comedy and suspense North By Northwest begins production on August 26, 1958." "The beauty of the plot is that, even though it's absurd you're completely caught up in it." "You don't need a rich script development." "The door opens." "It's Cary Grant, and everybody knows who and what that is." "SAINT:" "Hitchcock loved to put people who seemed to be in such control of their lives and themselves in the beginning, and then it all falls apart." "We're in jeopardy." "Because people in the audience think, "He's got it made." "He doesn't have it made," you know." ""He's being kidnapped."" "Hey, wait a minute." "What's that supposed to be?" "The car's waiting outside." "You'll walk between us." "Say nothing." "Hitch thought the whole thing was a comedy." "Essentially, he says, "Why, the whole thing's a fantasy, I mean there's not even any such thing as north by northwest."" " What is this, a joke or something?" " Yes, a joke." " We will laugh in the car." " Come." "He was a wonderful light comedian." "And he was funny as hell in North By Northwest." "Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then but I have tickets for the theater." "To a show I was looking forward to." "And I get unreasonable about things like that." "With such expert play-acting, you make this very room a theater." "For their final film together, director and star are perfectly in sync." "I think they were both jealous of each other a little bit." "I mean, Hitch could never be Cary Grant and Cary could never do what Hitch had done with his great career." "They were two very big stars." "Cary had an apartment at the Plaza in New York City so the scene where he walks across the lobby he just walked across." "He didn't have any direction." "Hitchcock said, "Why should I direct him?" "He's done this." "He has an apartment upstairs."" "Cary said to me, "I was like a baby." "I could fold myself up as if I was in the fetal position." "And whatever he said I would do, and he was always right."" "NARRATOR:" "Grant's trust in his director led to one of the most iconic scenes  in American film." "HITCHCOCK:" "There's a scene where Cary Grant is sent out into the countryside." "Now, you know, it's a setup for him to be shot." "Cary Grant gets out of a bus and stands there." "And the audience is saying:" ""Well, it's perfectly normal." "What can happen here?"" "Part of the wonderful amusement of the famous crop-dusting sequence is how perfectly he's dressed, and who he is." "He's Cary Grant being attacked by an airplane, throwing himself into cornstalks." "If it were any other actor, it would've just been a physical menace." "It wouldn't be so acutely funny." "I don't know exactly how I came to make a hospital room scene almost comedy." " Stop!" " Oh, excuse me, I..." " Stop." " Ah..." "We even have a moment that addresses the charm the lure of the real Cary Grant." "Has anyone ever told you that you overplay your various roles rather severely, Mr. Kaplan?" "Apparently the only performance that'll satisfy you is when I play dead." "LANDAU:" "Cary worried." "He was a worrier, and he worked at what he did." "And he worked hard." "I was very impressed with how prepared he was and how disciplined he was." "SAINT:" "He set such a high standard." "He was the first one there." "The last one to leave." "Knew his lines." "Expected everybody crew, all of us, to be right on the button." "I've got you!" "Up!" " I can't make it!" " Yes, you can." "NARRATOR:" "As film critic Pauline Kael wrote:" ""He was cast as Cary Grant and he gave a performance as Cary Grant. "" "Every time I ran into him he'd say:" ""You know, all the films I've done and all the films you've done, Martin we did something right with that one."" "For some reason, that picture struck a chord more than anything I've ever done." "People bring that picture up." "We did something right." "DRAKE:" "Our marriage had broken up, but we were still living together." "I have tried yoga." "I've tried God." "Nothing worked." "I told this one friend the despair I was in and she said, "Well, you should try LSD."" "And it was completely legal, and it was extraordinary." "Absolutely amazing." "NARRATOR:" "The drug is administered as an alternative to traditional therapy  and Drake begins regular treatments with Dr. Mortimer Hartmann." "Contrary to popular belief, Grant follows for less than therapeutic reasons." "He went in to find out, from Mor Hartmann, what I was saying." "He didn't think he had to find himself." "He'd found himself, for God sakes." "He didn't think he was lost." "(CHUCKLES)" "NARRATOR:" "Grant is convinced to try the drug as well  and immediately becomes a vocal proponent." "Undergoing over 100 sessions before LSD is outlawed in 1966." "MAN: "I was hiding behind all kinds of defenses, hypocrisies and vanities." "I had to get rid of them layer by layer." "That moment when your conscious meets your subconscious is a hell of a wrench."" "And I said, "I'm leaving you today."" "And he said, "You can't do that." "I'm making a movie."" "And I said, "I'm leaving you."" "NARRATOR:" "After numerous separations, the couple finally divorced in 1962." "MAN: "After three unsuccessful marriages, either something was wrong with me or civilization." "I'm not proud of my marriage record." "It was not the fault of Hollywood, but my own inadequacies and my mistrust of constancy."" "NARRATOR:" "The following year, Grant was at a crossroads over his next project." "Peter Stone and I worked on a script and I sent it to Cary." "And he turned us down." "He said no." "And I was sick." "I said, "Why?" And he said he was doing a picture with Howard Hawks." "BOGDANOVICH:" "Man 's Favorite Sport?" "There was a lot of young women in it and Cary backed out." "Hawks said, "Well, every time I see you, you've got a younger girl on your arm."" "Cary said, "That's different." He doesn't wanna be seen that way in the movie." "DONEN:" "We had breakfast, and he said, "Is that script still available?"" "And I said yes." "And he said, "Well, if you still want me, I'd like to do it."" "And I said, "Yes, definitely, I still want you."" " What are you doing in here?" " I'm having a nervous breakdown." "NARRATOR:" "Well into his third decade of leading ladies  Grant co-stars opposite Audrey Hepburn, who is 25 years his junior." "He makes only one request before shooting begins." "One thing he said, "I'm a bit old to be chasing a girl." "Let's let her chase me."" "(SCREAMS)" " Reggie?" " Got you!" "DENBY:" "Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn are walking along the Seine and she has an ice cream cone." "You know, this is good." "Want some?" "No, thank you." "That's all." "Perfect." "Unruffable." "We took all the chances." "The money belongs to us, not to him." "Now, don't be piggy, Herman." "He would say, "Always remember that you are a product."" "He said, "A Cary Grant cannot do this, this, this and this." "A Cary Grant must do that."" "He talked about himself in the third person." "And I said, "That's fabulous to be able to differentiate the real guy from this image he's created."" " Do you know what's wrong with you?" " No, what?" "Nothing." "He's not even a person anymore." "He's this godlike figure." "You know?" "He's sheer mythology in Charade." "Well, when you come on, you come on, don't you?" "Well, come on." "NARRATOR:" "In the early '60s, Grant sees 23-year-old Dyan Cannon on television  and contacts her." "The two begin dating and marry in early 1965." "When Cary married Dyan Cannon I thought that was the oddest couple I'd ever even thought of." "You know?" "Never would've thought he would've been attracted to her." "Cary did anything that she seemed to want to please her." "I felt he was more in love with her than the other way around." "NARRATOR:" "In direct contrast to his home life, Grant is shrewd enough  to realize he can no longer continue as a romantic leading man." "In 1965 he leaves for Japan to star in his final film." "I came about sharing the apartment." "How do you do?" " How do you do?" " This card was on the bulletin board at the embassy." " But you're a man." "Yes, I suppose so." "I prefer sharing an apartment with a woman." "Well, so do I." "What was really brilliant about Cary was that in working in such close quarters..." "Every set was very, very small." " Save you the bother of transferring your things from the other room." "Us youngsters watched him, followed him and got into his brilliant comedic timing and his examples literally by being with him and watching him." "BASINGER:" "Given the persona he has, there is no future for it as he ages." "Instead of turning into the Charles Coburn, old father figure he gave us Cary Grant." "Perfect." "He wrapped him up and left him where we needed him to be and where he needed him to be." "BOGDANOVICH:" "Let's face it." "This was an illusion that he created." "Cary wasn't gonna wreck that." "That was his life's work, really." "So, at a certain point, he said, "It's time to quit."" "NARRATOR:" "After 72 films, Grant walks away  ending his career with no announcement." "MAN: "You can never go back." "It's not possible." "I could make another film, but I'd be playing a different man." "It would've been a great disappointment for an audience to see."" "We were going to the first AFI Lifetime Achievement Award." "It was for John Ford, and we came up to this table where you had to hand in your ticket, and Cary walks up and says:" ""I'm terribly sorry." "I forgot my ticket." "May I get in, please?"" "And the woman doesn't look up." "She says, "Name?"" "And he says, "Cary Grant."" "Now she looks up at him, and she says, "You don't look like Cary Grant."" "He says, "I know." "Nobody does."" "He was right." "Nobody did look like Cary Grant, including him." "You couldn't." "NARRATOR:" "Grant turns all his attention to his latest project." "At the age of 62, he becomes a father with the birth of his daughter, Jennifer." "He, I think, had wanted to have children beforehand but for one reason or another had not." "Part of it, he said, was his own selfishness." "He was too involved in his own career." "That changed him a great deal, much more than his wives did." "Well, I think he discovered paternal love, which he had never known about." "And it was a surprise to him." "NARRATOR:" "The disparity in age between Grant and Cannon  lead to mounting problems." "MANN:" "She was a spirited woman, and she didn't want to put up with Cary's slightly autocratic way of talking." "He didn't like women to wear makeup." "And she would put makeup on, and he'd tell her to take it off." "And she just got fed up with it." "NARRATOR:" "Although overjoyed with Jennifer  the couple reach a breaking point and Cannon moves out." "Grant had made an art of keeping his private life closely guarded." "But in 1968, he's thrown into a highly public divorce." "While Cannon levels accusations to the press, Grant refuses to respond." "After Dyan and he divorced, his time with Jennifer was very limited and obviously, at the back of his mind, was also his time was probably limited because of his age." "So he wanted to spend as much time as he possibly could with her." "NARRATOR:" "That same year, Grant is appointed  to the board of directors of Fabergé, the perfume and cosmetics company  in a move that surprises many." "That was a very interesting arrangement because he wasn't interested in money." "By then Dyan Cannon was traveling around the country filming and Cary wanted a private plane at his disposal so he could drop everything and at a moment's notice, get on that plane and go wherever he had to go to be with Jennifer." "NARRATOR:" "In 1970, Grant is thrilled to learn that the Academy  has chosen to award him for what they term "his unique mastery  of the art of screen acting. "" "He is deeply moved by the audience's reaction." "Well, I want to thank you very much for signifying your approval of this." "I shall cherish it until I die." "Because probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues." "Thank you." "So long." "NARRATOR:" "Keeping public appearances to a minimum  Grant has a knack for combining business with personal interests." "He joins the boards of other corporations including MGM and Hollywood Park." "When I got to know Cary, he was the youngest 80-year-old I ever met." "We were sitting at the track, and he said, "Would you like to take a walk?"" "He had the coolest, youngest walk and so sprightly." "It inspired me to say, "Remember what you just saw because it was really great."" "NARRATOR:" "Despite his age, Grant still travels the world for Fabergé." "Fabergé had a trade show in London every year and it was at the Royal Lancaster Hotel." "I did the public relations at the Royal Lancaster Hotel." "NARRATOR:" "Forty-seven years younger, Barbara marries Grant  after a two-year courtship." "BARBARA:" "I never, ever envisaged having any form of a relationship other than friendship with him." "But because he was such an extraordinary individual regardless of his age, I couldn't help myself." "I couldn't stop from falling in love with him." "And even though I knew that that time together would probably be limited the quality of it was extraordinarily important to me and I wouldn't have changed it for the world." "It was just a beautiful thing to see how much Barbara and Cary loved each other." "How at peace how comfortable, how happy they were." "They got it right." "NARRATOR:" "Retired now for over a decade  Grant's personal life still continues to fascinate." "BOGDANOVICH:" "Chevy Chase on a television show made a crack that Cary was a homo." "It was a stupid moment for Chevy, and he regretted it." "Cary was annoyed." "He was more concerned of how Jennifer would feel about it and also how I would feel about it." "He did sue Chevy, and then they settled out of court." "NARRATOR:" "Grant has finally found happiness at home." "The offers of awards and tributes begin in earnest." "But unlike his peers, he refuses them all." "BARBARA:" "Cary hated getting up and making a public speech." "And it wasn't worth the trouble for him to go to something where he was meant to be awarded for something and him be so tremendously uncomfortable beforehand." "When the Kennedy Center came along and offered him something, because he knew he would just be able to enjoy the evening, he accepted." "I was working with Ginger Rogers on a little one-woman show that she was gonna do." "I wrote to Cary and he called me two days later and all he wanted to talk about was Ginger." "I then felt comfortable enough to say to Cary:" ""I would love to represent you for something like this."" "And he said, "No, I'm retired, I don't give speeches and I don't wanna do any of this."" "NARRATOR:" "After a year and a half of prodding  Grant finally agrees to appear before an audience in An Evening With Cary Grant." "I was very surprised." "Yes, I didn't think he would do it because he had, to a certain extent, retired from public life at that stage." "His only stipulation was that no seat cost more than $25." "NARRATOR:" "Grant returns to his roots  appearing in theaters he had played on the vaudeville circuit 60 years earlier." "BARBARA:" "It was wonderful, really quite extraordinary, to see the adoration of the audience, whether they were male, whether they were female whether they were old or whether they were young." "They were just thrilled to have Cary there." "He got a big, big kick out of doing that, questions and answers." "People, they would..." "Lovely ladies with blue rinses were sitting there in front in the audience and on he walks, looking absolutely spectacular, as he always did." "And they just loved it, you know?" "The legend actually came to life." "NELSON:" "He did come full circle." "There's no question about it." "He began in the provinces and he ended up in the provinces." "NARRATOR:" "On November the 29th, 1986  Grant is scheduled to perform in Davenport, Iowa." "BARBARA:" "That morning, he'd been in great form." "We had been walking around and joking and having a wonderful time, and it was only that afternoon when he was doing the rehearsal, that I understood that something was going wrong, because he could not focus." "NARRATOR:" "Grant is taken to the hospital  where he dies of a massive stroke at 11:22 p.m." "BARBARA:" "He could've died in his bed at home." "He could've died anywhere but he was on the road doing something that he loved to do." "NARRATOR:" "Director Billy Wilder and his wife Audrey  sum up the collective feeling in their telegram to Barbara." ""The model is gone." "Who can we emulate now?"" "MAN: "I spent the greater part of my life fluctuating between Archie Leach and Cary Grant, unsure of either, suspecting each."" "BASINGER:" "He invented himself to be Cary Grant and then had to play the role of Cary Grant both on- and off-screen." "The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach, a week before..." " Is that so?" " That so?" " We've been in worse jams, haven't we?" " No." "But it was an amazing thing to build that persona." "He was big on inventing life for himself." "MITCHELL:" "That's what made him so magnetic." "That immeasurable amount of sheer confidence." "May I kiss you?" "Thank you." "LANDAU:" "I don't think Cary Grant started out to be an artist." "I think, along the way, he realized he had to perfect what it was he did and actually became an artist." "Who is going to follow Cary Grant?" "So far, nada." "I won't trouble you any more tonight." "Good night." "Subtitles by SDI Media Group" "(ENGLISH SDH)"