Today we observe what would have been the 108th birthday of Cary Grant.
Tell me, has there ever been a movie star, before or since, like Cary Grant? Just last week I watched Hitchcock's "To Catch A Thief" with Grant and Grace Kelly. What a screen pair that was. And for my money, one of the hottest and sexiest love scenes you will ever see in a movie was between Grant and Eva Marie Saint in "North by Northwest." No one took their clothes off, in fact, I don't even think that Grant and Saint were seen below their shoulders, but, man, you had no doubt what was going on between them.
(Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sKTO32r5Zs)
Comedy, drama, romance, and even self-deprecating humor....Grant could do it all. Here's a story I once read from director Peter Bogdanovich. Late in life, Grant was attending some sort of charity function somewhere and when he gave his name upon checking in, the lady at the registration said, "You don't look like Cary Grant." To which Grant said (and please imagine this in a Cary Grant accent), "Well, yes, but then nobody does."
Nobody like him, before or since.
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