Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was a British-American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming.

He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. His popular classic films include The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), To Catch A Thief (1955), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), and Charade (1963).

At the 42nd Academy Awards the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored him with an Honorary Award "for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues".

Early life and career

Archibald Alexander Leach was born in Horfield, Bristol, United Kingdom in 1904 to Elsie Maria Kingdon (1877-1973) and Elias James Leach (1873-1935). An only child, he had a confused and unhappy childhood, attending Bishop Road Primary School. His father placed his mother in a mental institution when he was nine and his mother never overcame her depression after the death of a previous child. His father had told him that she had gone away on a "long holiday" and it was not until he was in his thirties that Leach discovered her alive, in an institutionalized care facility.

He was expelled from the Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol in 1918. He subsequently joined the "Bob Pender stage troupe" and travelled with the group to the United States as a stilt walker in 1920 at the age of 16, on a two-year tour of the country. He was processed at Ellis Island on July 28, 1920. When the troupe returned to the UK, he decided to stay in the US and continue his stage career.

Still under his birth name, he performed on the stage at The Muny in St. Louis, Missouri, in such shows as Irene (1931); Music in May (1931); Nina Rosa (1931); Rio Rita (1931); Street Singer (1931); The Three Musketeers (1931); and Wonderful Night (1931).

Hollywood stardom

After some success in light Broadway comedies, he went to Hollywood in 1931, where he acquired the name Cary Lockwood. He chose the name Lockwood after the surname of his character in a recent play called Nikki. He signed with Paramount Pictures, but while studio bosses were impressed with him, they were less than impressed with his adopted stage name. They decided that the name Cary was OK, but Lockwood had to go due to a similarity with another actor's name. It was after browsing through a list of the studio's preferred surnames, that Cary Grant was born. Grant chose the name because the initials C and G had already proved lucky for Clark Gable and Gary Cooper, two of Hollywood's then-biggest movie stars.

Having already appeared as leading man opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932), his stardom was given a further boost by Mae West when she chose him for her leading man in two of her most successful films, She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel (both 1933). I'm No Angel was a tremendous financial success and, along with She Done Him Wrong, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, saved Paramount from bankruptcy. Paramount put Grant in a series of indifferent films until 1936, when he signed with Columbia Pictures. His first major comedy hit was when he was loaned to Hal Roach's studio for the 1937 Topper (which was distributed by MGM). Grant starred in some of the classic screwball comedies, including Bringing Up Baby (1938) with Katharine Hepburn, His Girl Friday (1940) with Rosalind Russell, Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) featuring Priscilla Lane, and Monkey Business (1952) opposite Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe. Under the tutelage of director Leo McCarey, his role in The Awful Truth (1937) with Irene Dunne was the pivotal film in the establishment of Grant's screen persona. These performances solidified his appeal, and The Philadelphia Story (1940), with Hepburn and James Stewart, showcased his best-known screen persona: the charming if sometimes unreliable man, formerly married to an intelligent and strong-willed woman who first divorced him, then realized that he was—with all his faults—irresistible.

Grant was one of Hollywood's top box-office attractions for several decades. He was a versatile actor, who did demanding physical comedy in movies like Gunga Din (1939) with the skills he had learned on the stage. Howard Hawks said that Grant was "so far the best that there isn't anybody to be compared to him".

Grant was a favorite actor of Alfred Hitchcock, notorious for disliking actors, who said that Grant was "the only actor I ever loved in my whole life".Nelson and Grant 1992. p. 325. Grant appeared in such Hitchcock classics as Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). Biographer Patrick McGilligan wrote that, in 1965, Hitchcock asked Grant to star in Torn Curtain (1966), only to learn that Grant had decided to retire after making one more film, Walk, Don't Run (1966); Paul Newman was cast instead in Torn Curtain, opposite Julie Andrews.

In the mid-1950s, Grant formed his own production company, Grantley Productions, and produced a number of movies distributed by Universal, such as Operation Petticoat (1959), Indiscreet (1958), That Touch of Mink (co-starring with Doris Day, 1962), and Father Goose (1964). In 1963, he appeared opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963). His last feature fim was Walk, Don't Run (1966) with Samantha Eggar.

Grant was once considered a maverick as he was the first actor to "go independent," effectively bucking the old studio system, which almost completely controlled what an actor could or could not do. In this way, Grant was able to control every aspect of his career. He decided which movies he was going to appear in, he had personal choice of the directors and his co-stars and at times, even negotiated a share of the gross, something unheard of at the time, but now common among A-list stars.

Grant was nominated for two Academy Awards in the 1940s. He was denied the Oscar throughout his active career because he was one of the first actors to be independent of the major studios. Grant received a special Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1970. In 1981, he was accorded the Kennedy Center Honors.

Retirement and death

Although Grant had retired from the screen, he remained active in other areas. In the late 1960s, he accepted a position on the board of directors at Fabergé. By all accounts this position was not honorary as some had assumed, as Grant was regularly attending meetings and his mere appearance at a product launch would almost certainly guarantee its success. The position also permitted use of a private plane, which Grant could use to fly to see his daughter wherever her mother, Dyan Cannon, was working. He later joined the boards of Hollywood Park, Western Airlines (now Delta Air Lines), and MGM.

In the last few years of his life, Grant undertook tours of the United States in a one man show. It was called "A Conversation with Cary Grant", in which he would show clips from his films and answer audience questions. Grant was preparing for a performance at the Adler Theater in Davenport, Iowa on the afternoon of 29 November 1986 when he suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. (He had also suffered a minor stroke in October 1984.) He died at 11:22 pm in St. Luke's Hospital.

Personal life

Grant was married five times, and was dogged by rumors that he was bisexual. He wed Virginia Cherrill on February 10, 1934. She divorced him on March 26, 1935, following charges that Grant had hit her. He married Barbara Hutton and became a father figure to her son, Lance Reventlow. The couple were derisively nicknamed "Cash and Cary," although in an extensive prenuptial agreement Grant refused any financial settlement in the event of a divorce. After divorcing in 1945, they remained lifelong friends. Grant always bristled at the accusation that he married for money: "I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was never one of them."

Grant married Betsy Drake on December 25, 1949. He appeared with her in two films. This would prove to be his longest marriage, ending on August 14, 1962. Drake introduced Grant to LSD, and in the early 60s he related how treatment with the hallucinogenic drug—legal at the time—at a prestigious California clinic had finally brought him inner peace after yoga, hypnotism, and mysticism had proved ineffective.McKelvey, Bob. "Cary Grant - Hollywood's Zany Lover Reaches 80." Detroit Free Press January 18, 1984. Retrieved: June 13, 2009.

He eloped with Dyan Cannon on July 22, 1965 in Las Vegas. Their daughter, Jennifer Grant, was born prematurely on February 26, 1966. He frequently called her his "best production", and regretted that he had not had children sooner. The marriage was troubled from the beginning and Cannon left him in December 1966, claiming that Grant flew into frequent rages and spanked her when she "disobeyed" him. The divorce, finalized in 1968, was bitter and public, and custody fights over their daughter went on for nearly ten years.

On 11 April 1981 Grant married long-time companion, British hotel PR agent Barbara Harris, who was 47 years his junior. They renewed their vows on their fifth wedding anniversary. In 2001, Harris married former All-American quarterback David Jaynes.

Grant was allegedly involved with costume designer Orry-Kelly when he first moved to Manhattan,Higham and Moseley 1989 and lived with Randolph Scott off and on for twelve years. Richard Blackwell wrote that Grant and Scott were "deeply, madly in love", and alleged eyewitness accounts of their physical affection have been published. Hedda Hopper and screenwriter Arthur Laurents have also alleged that Grant was bisexual, the latter writing that Grant "told me he threw pebbles at my window one night but was luckless". Alexander D'Arcy, who appeared with Grant in The Awful Truth, said he knew that he and Scott "lived together as a gay couple", adding: "I think Cary knew that people were saying things about him. I don't think he tried to hide it." The two men frequently accompanied each other to parties and premieres and were unconcerned when photographs of them cozily preparing dinner together at home were published in fan magazines.

Grant's widow, Barbara, has disputed that there was a relationship with Scott.Jaynes, Barbara Grant and Robert Trachtenberg. "Cary Grant: A Class Apart." tcm.com, Burbank, California: Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Turner Entertainment, 2004. When Chevy Chase joked about Grant being gay in a television interview, he sued him for slander; they settled out of court. However, he did admit in an interview that his first two wives had accused him of being homosexual. Betsy Drake commented: "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".

Politics

Grant was a Republican, but did not think movie stars should publicly make political declarations.Jaynes, Barbara Grant and Robert Trachtenberg. PBS: "Cary Grant: A Class Apart." Washington Post, May 26, 2005. Retrieved: June 13, 2009. During his career some people considered him to be a left-winger, as he publicly condemned McCarthyism in 1953 and vocally supported his blacklisted friend Charlie Chaplin. Grant was also criticized by right-wing columnist Hedda Hopper for vacationing in the Soviet Union after filming Indiscreet (1958). He appeared to worsen the situation by remarking to an interviewer "I don't care what kind of government they have over there, I never had such a good time in my life". In June 1968 he made a public appeal for gun control following the assassination of his friend, Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy. After his retirement from acting, Grant was active in a number of Republican causes. He introduced First Lady Betty Ford to the audience at the Republican National Convention in 1976. He was also a vocal supporter of his friend Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.

Tribute

In 2001 a statue of Grant was erected in Millennium Square, a regenerated area next to the harbour in his city of birth, Bristol, England.

In November 2004, Grant was named "The Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Premiere Magazine. Richard Schickel, the film critic, said about Grant: "He's the best star actor there ever was in the movies."

Ian Fleming stated that he partially had Cary Grant in mind when he created his suave super-spy, James Bond. Sean Connery was selected for the first James Bond movie because of his likeness to Grant. Likewise, the later Bond, Roger Moore, was also selected for sharing Grant's wry sense of humor.

John Cleese's character in the film A Fish Called Wanda was named Archie Leach, a reference to Grant's legal birth name. (Grant himself had referenced an off-screen character named "Archie Leach" in His Girl Friday). The 1960s TV series The Flintstones featured a stone-age entertainer named "Gary Granite".

Cary Grant never did utter the phrase "Judy, Judy, Judy...". It was used by Tony Curtis who said it doing a Grant impression for the character of the millionaire in the movie Some Like it Hot, but Curtis heard it first when he went to visit his good friend Larry Storch's stand-up routine in New York and heard Storch say "Judy, Judy, Judy..." when Judy Garland walked into the club.

In his "Schticks of One and a Half Dozen of the Other" medley, Allan Sherman created this lyric, sung to the tune of "Marianne", comically expressing jealousy: "All day, all night, 'Cary Grant!' / That's all I hear from my wife, is 'Cary Grant!' / What can he do that I can't? / Big Star! Big deal! Cary Grant!"

Filmography

1932–1940

Year	Title	Role	Director	Co-stars
	This Is the Night	Stephen	Frank Tuttle	Lili Damita, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Thelma Todd
	Sinners in the Sun	Ridgeway	Alexander Hall	Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Alison Skipworth, Walter Byron
	Singapore Sue	First Sailor	Casey Robinson	Anna Chang
	Merrily We Go to Hell UK title: Merrily We Go to _____	Charlie Baxter	Dorothy Arzner	Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March
	Devil and the Deep	Lieutenant Jaeckel	Marion Gering	Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton
	Blonde Venus	Nick Townsend	Josef von Sternberg	Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Dickie Moore
	Hot Saturday	Romer Sheffield	William A. Seiter	Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott
	Madame Butterfly	Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton	Marion Gering	Sylvia Sidney, Charles Ruggles, Irving Pichel
	She Done Him Wrong	Capt. Cummings	Lowell Sherman	Mae West, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland
	The Woman Accused	Jeffrey Baxter	Paul Sloane	Nancy Carroll, John Halliday, Irving Pichel
	The Eagle and the Hawk	Henry Crocker	Stuart Walker	Fredric March, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard, Guy Standing
	Gambling Ship	Ace Corbin	Louis J. Gasnier Max Marcin	Benita Hume, Roscoe Karns, Glenda Farrell
	I'm No Angel	Jack Clayton	Wesley Ruggles	Mae West, Edward Arnold
	Alice in Wonderland	The Mock Turtle	Norman Z. McLeod	Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, W. C. Fields, Gary Cooper, Billy Barty
	Thirty Day Princess	Porter Madison III	Marion Gering	Sylvia Sidney, Edward Arnold, Henry Stephenson, Vince Barnett
	Born to Be Bad	Malcolm Trevor	Lowell Sherman	Loretta Young, Jackie Kelk, Henry Travers, Russell Hopton
	Kiss and Make Up	Dr. Maurice Lamar	Harlan Thompson	Genevieve Tobin, Helen Mack, Lucien Littlefield
	Ladies Should Listen	Julian De Lussac	Frank Tuttle	Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton
	Enter Madame	Gerald Fitzgerald	Elliott Nugent	Elissa Landi, Lynne Overman
	Wings in the Dark	Ken Gordon	James Flood	Myrna Loy, Roscoe Karns, Dean Jagger
	The Last Outpost	Michael Andrews	Charles Barton Louis J. Gasnier	Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael, Kathleen Burke
	Sylvia Scarlett	Jimmy Monkley	George Cukor	Katharine Hepburn, Brian Aherne, Edmund Gwenn
	Big Brown Eyes	Det. Sgt. Danny Barr	Raoul Walsh	Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon, Isabel Jewell, Lloyd Nolan
	Suzy	Andre	George Fitzmaurice	Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Benita Hume
	The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss US title: Romance and Riches	Ernest Bliss	Alfred Zeisler	Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Kendall
	Wedding Present	Charlie	Richard Wallace	Joan Bennett, George Bancroft, Conrad Nagel, Gene Lockhart
	When You're in Love UK title: For You Alone	Jimmy Hudson	Robert Riskin	Grace Moore, Aline MacMahon, Henry Stephenson, Thomas Mitchell
	Topper	George Kerby	Norman Z. McLeod	Constance Bennett, Billie Burke, Roland Young, Alan Mowbray
	The Toast of New York	Nicholas "Nick" Boyd	Rowland V. Lee	Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie, Donald Meek
	The Awful Truth	Jerry Warriner	Leo McCarey	Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy
	Bringing up Baby	Dr. David Huxley	Howard Hawks	Katharine Hepburn, Charles Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson
	Holiday UK title: Free to Live	John "Johnny" Case	George Cukor	Katharine Hepburn, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton
	Gunga Din	Sgt. Archibald Cutter	George Stevens	Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joan Fontaine
	Only Angels Have Wings	Geoff Carter	Howard Hawks	Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Carroll, Allyn Joslyn
	In Name Only	Alec Walker	John Cromwell	Carole Lombard, Kay Francis, Charles Coburn
	His Girl Friday	Walter Burns	Howard Hawks	Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
	My Favorite Wife	Nick	Garson Kanin	Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick
	The Howards of Virginia UK title: The Tree of Liberty	Matt Howard	Frank Lloyd	Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson
	The Philadelphia Story	C.K. Dexter Haven	George Cukor	Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard

1941–1950

Year	Title	Role	Director	Co-stars
	Penny Serenade	Roger Adams	George Stevens	Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran
	Suspicion	Johnnie	Alfred Hitchcock	Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty
	The Talk of the Town	Leopold Dilg aka Joseph	George Stevens	Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell
	Once Upon a Honeymoon	Patrick "Pat" O'Toole	Leo McCarey	Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker
	Mr. Lucky	Joe Adams/Joe Bascopolous	H. C. Potter	Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Alan Carney
	Destination Tokyo	Capt. Cassidy	Delmer Daves	John Garfield, Alan Hale, Dane Clark
	Once Upon a Time	Jerry Flynn	Alexander Hall	Janet Blair, James Gleason, William Demarest
	Arsenic and Old Lace	Mortimer Brewster	Frank Capra	Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Edward Everett Horton
	None But the Lonely Heart	Ernie Mott	Clifford Odets	Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt
	Without Reservations	Himself (cameo)	Mervyn LeRoy	Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore, Louella Parsons
	Night and Day	Cole Porter	Michael Curtiz	Alexis Smith, Eve Arden, Monty Woolley, Jane Wyman, Dorothy Malone
	Notorious	T.R. Devlin	Alfred Hitchcock	Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern
	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer UK title: Bachelor Knight	Dick	Irving Reis	Myrna Loy, William Bakewell, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee
	The Bishop's Wife	Dudley	Henry Koster	Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper
	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House	Jim Blandings	H. C. Potter	Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny
	Every Girl Should Be Married	Dr. Madison W. Brown	Don Hartman	Franchot Tone, Diana Lynn, Betsy Drake, Alan Mowbray
	I Was a Male War Bride UK title: You Can't Sleep Here	Capt. Henri Rochard	Howard Hawks	Ann Sheridan
	Crisis	Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson	Richard Brooks	José Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso, Ramon Novarro

1951–1966

Year	Title	Role	Director	Co-stars
	People Will Talk	Dr. Noah Praetorius	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak
	Room for One More	George "Poppy" Rose	Norman Taurog	Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle
	Monkey Business	Dr. Barnaby Fulton	Howard Hawks	Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe
	Dream Wife	Clemson Reade	Sidney Sheldon	Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Betta St. John
	To Catch a Thief	John Robie	Alfred Hitchcock	Grace Kelly, John Williams
	An Affair to Remember	Nickie Ferrante	Leo McCarey	Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning
	The Pride and the Passion	Anthony	Stanley Kramer	Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel
	Kiss Them for Me	Cmdr. Andy Crewson	Stanley Donen	Jayne Mansfield, Suzy Parker, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston
	Indiscreet	Philip Adams	Stanley Donen	Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff
	Houseboat	Tom Winters	Blake Edwards	Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino
	North by Northwest	Roger O. Thornhill	Alfred Hitchcock	Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau
	Operation Petticoat	Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman	Stanley Donen	Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans
	The Grass Is Greener	Victor Rhyall, Earl	Stanley Donen	Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Moray Watson
	That Touch of Mink	Philip Shayne	Delbert Mann	Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows, John Astin, Dick Sargent
	Charade	Peter Joshua / Carson Dyle / Alexander Dyle / Adam Canfield / Brian Cruikshank	Stanley Donen	Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy
	Father Goose	Walter Christopher Eckland	Ralph Nelson	Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good
	Walk, Don't Run	Sir William Rutland	Charles Walters	Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton

References

Notes

Bibliography of cited references

• Bogdanovich, Peter. Who the Hell's in It: Portraits and Conversations. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2004. ISBN 0-37540-010-9.
• Eliot, Marc. Cary Grant: The Biography. New York: Aurum Press, 2005. ISBN 1-84513-073-1.
• Higham, Charles and Roy Moseley. Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart. London: Thompson Learning, 1997. ISBN 0-15115-787-1.
• Johannson, Warren and William A. Percy. Outing: Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence.. Kirkwood, NY: Harrington Park Press, 1994, pp. 146–147.
• Kael, Pauline. "The Man from Dream City - Cary Grant" - The New Yorker - July 14, 1975 - (reprinted in: Pauline Kael: For Keeps - 30 Years at the Movies. New York: Dutton, 1994.)
• Laurents, Arthur. Original Story by: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Corp, 2001. ISBN 1-55783-467-9.
• Mann, William J. Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969. New York: Viking, 2001. ISBN 0-67003-017-1.
• McCann, Graham. Cary Grant: A Class Apart. London: Fourth Estate, 1997. ISBN 1-85702-574-1.
• McGilligan, Patrick. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. New York: Regan Books, 2003. ISBN 0-06039-322-X.
• Morecambe, Gary; Sterling, Martin. Cary Grant: In Name Alone. London: Robson Books, 2001. ISBN 1-86105-466-1.
• Nelson, Nancy and Cary Grant. Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections In His Own Words and By Those Who Loved Him Best. Thorndike, Maine: Thorndike Press, 1992. ISBN 1-56054-342-6.
• Russo, Vito. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies [revised edition]. New York: Harrow & Row, 1987. ISBN 0-06096-132-5.
• Wansell, Geoffrey. Cary Grant: Dark Angel. London: Arcade, 1997. ISBN 1-55970-369-5.

External links

• CaryGrant.net with filmography and historic reviews and photo galleries
• "The Man From Dream City" by Pauline Kael, originally published in The New Yorker, July 14, 1975
• "Cary Grant: Style as a Martial Art" by Wu Ming, on the inclusion of Grant in their novel 54.
• Radio Shows: The Ultimate Cary Grant Pages. A vast collection of mp3 files.