FEATURE FILMS
THIS IS THE NIGHT (1932, year of release). Paramount Publix. Directed by Frank
Tuttle. Produced by Benjamin Glazer. Screenplay by Avery Hopwood and Benjamin Glazer, from Pouche, by René Peter and Henri Falk, also George Marion Jr. and René Peter. Principal cast: Lily Damita, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant, Irving Bacon. B&W.
SINNERS IN THE SUN (1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by Alexander Hall.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Vincent Lawrence, Waldemar Young, and Samuel Hoffenstein, from a story by Mildred Cram. Principal cast: Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Adrienne Ames, Alison Skipworth, Walter Byron, Reginald Barlow, Zita Moulton, Cary Grant. B&W.
MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by Dorothy Arzner.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Edwin Justus Mayer, from I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan, by Cleo Lucas. Principal cast: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, Florence Britton, Esther Howard, George Irving, Kent Taylor, Charles Coleman, Leonard Carey, Cary Grant. B&W.
DEVIL AND THE DEEP (1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by Marion Gering.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Benn Levy and Harry Hervey. Principal cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Cary Grant, Gordon Westcott, Paul Porcasi, Juliette Compton, Arthur Hoyt, Dorothy Christy. B&W.
BLONDE VENUS (1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Produced by Paramount Publix (Josef von Sternberg, uncredited). Screenplay by Jules Furthman and S. K. Lauren, from a story by Josef von Sternberg. Principal cast: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Gene Morgan, Rita La Roy, Sidney Toler, Cecil Cunningham. B&W.
HOT SATURDAY (1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by William A. Seiter. Produced by
Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Seton I. Miller, Josephine Lovett, and Joseph Moncure March, from the novel by Harvey Fergusson. Principal cast: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods, Lilian Bond, William Collier Sr., Jane Darwell, Rita La Roy, Grady Sutton. B&W.
MADAME BUTTERFLY (1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by Marion Gering.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Josephine Lovett and Joseph Moncure March, from a story by John Luther Long and the play by David Belasco. Principal cast: Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Sándor Kállay, Irving Pichel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Edmund Breese, Sheila Terry. B&W.
SHE DONE HIM WRONG (1933). Paramount Publix. Directed by Lowell Sherman.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Harvey Thew and John Bright, adapted from the play She Done Him Wrong, by Mae West. Principal cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Rafaela Ottiano, David Landau, Rochelle Hudson, Owen Moore, Fuzzy Knight, Louise Beavers, Dewey Robinson, Grace La Rue. B&W.
WOMAN ACCUSED (1933). Paramount Publix. Directed by Paul Sloane. Produced by
Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Bayard Veiller, based on a story by Polan Banks, from a Liberty magazine serial: individual episodes by Rupert Hughes, Vicki Baum, Zane Grey, Viña Delmar, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Ursula Parrott, Polan Banks, and Sophie Kerr. Principal cast: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Irving Pichel, Louis Calhern, Norma Mitchell, Jack La Rue, Frank Sheridan, John Lodge, Lona Andre. B&W.
THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK (1933). Paramount Publix. Directed by Stuart Walker.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Bogart Rogers and Seton I. Miller, from a story by John Monk Saunders. Principal cast: Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard, Sir Guy Standing, Forrester Harvey, Virginia Hammond. B&W.
GAMBLING SHIP (1933). Paramount Publix. Directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Max
Marcin. Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Max Marcin, Seton I. Miller, and Claude Binyon, from stories by Peter Ruric. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Benita Hume, Roscoe Karns, Glenda Farrell, Jack La Rue, Arthur Vinton, Edward Gargan. B&W.
I'M NO ANGEL (1933). Paramount Publix. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. Screenplay by
Mae West and Lowell Brentano. Produced by Paramount Publix. Principal cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde, Russell Hopton, Gertrude Michael, Kent Taylor, Dorothy Peterson, Gregory Ratoff, Gertrude Howard, Nat Pendleton. B&W.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1933). Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Produced by
Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and William Cameron Menzies, from the writings of Lewis Carroll. Principal cast: Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, Gary Cooper, Leon Errol, Louise Fazenda, W. C. Fields, Skeets Gallagher, Cary Grant, Sterling Holloway, Edward Everett Horton, Roscoe Karns, Baby LeRoy, Mae Marsh, Polly Moran, Jack Oakie, Edna May Oliver, May Robson, Charles Ruggles, Alison Skipworth, Ned Sparks. B&W.
THIRTY DAY PRINCESS (1934). Paramount Publix. Directed by Marion Gering.
Produced by B. P. Schulberg, Schulberg Productions. Screenplay by Preston Sturges, Frank Partos, Sam Hellman, and Edwin Justus Mayer, from a story by Clarence Budington Kelland. Principal cast: Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Henry Stephenson, Vince Barnett, Edgar Norton, Lucien Littlefield. B&W.
BORN TO BE BAD (1934). United Artists. Directed by Lowell Sherman. Produced by 20th Century. Screenplay by Ralph Graves and Harrison Jacobs. Principal cast: Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Jackie Kelk, Henry Travers, Russell Hopton, Andrew Tombes, Marion Burns, Paul Harvey. B&W.
KISS AND MAKE UP (1934). Paramount Publix. Directed by Harlan Thompson.
Produced by B. P. Schulberg. Screenplay by Harlan Thompson, George Marion Jr., and Jane Hinton, from a story by István Békeffy. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Helen Mack, Genevieve Tobin, Edward Everett Horton, Lucien Littlefield, Mona Maris, Toby Wing. B&W.
LADIES SHOULD LISTEN (1934). Paramount Publix. Directed by Frank Tuttle.
Produced by Douglas MacLean. Screenplay by Claude Binyon and Frank Butler, from a play by Alfred Savoir and Guy Bolton. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton, Rosita Moreno, George Barbier, Nydia Westman, Charles Ray, Clara Lou Sheridan. B&W.
ENTER MADAME (1935). Paramount Publix. Directed by Elliott Nugent. Produced by
Benjamin Glazer. Screenplay by Charles Brackett and Gladys Lehman, from a play by Gilda Varesi Archibald and Dorothea Donn-Byrne. Principal cast: Elissa Landi, Cary Grant, Lynne Overman, Sharon Lynn, Michelette Burani, Paul Porcasi, Adrian Rosley, Cecilia Parker, Frank Albertson, Diana Lewis. B&W. Wings in the Dark (1935). Paramount Pictures. Directed by James Flood. Produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. Screenplay by Jack Kirkland, Frank Partos, Dale Van Every, and E. H. Robinson, from a story by Nell Shipman and Philip Hurn. Principal cast: Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Roscoe Karns, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dean Jagger, Samuel S. Hinds, Bert Hanlon, Graham McNamee. B&W.
THE LAST OUTPOST (1935). Paramount Pictures. Directed by Charles Barton and
Louis Gasnier. Produced by E. Lloyd Sheldon. Screenplay by Philip MacDonald, Frank Partos, and Charles Brackett, from a story by F. Britten Austin. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael, Kathleen Burke, Colin Tapley, Akim Tamiroff, Billy Bevan, Margaret Swope. B&W.
SYLVIA SCARLETT (1936). RKO Radio. Directed by George Cukor. Produced by Pandro
S. Berman. Screenplay by Gladys Unger, John Collier, and Mortimer Offner, from the novel by Compton MacKenzie. Principal cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Paley, Dennie Moore, Lennox Pawle. B&W.
BIG BROWN EYES (1936). Paramount Pictures. Directed by Raoul Walsh. Produced by Walter Wanger. Screenplay by Raoul Walsh and Bert Hanlon, from a story by James Edward Grant. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon, Lloyd Nolan, Alan Baxter, Marjorie Gateson, Isabel Jewell, Douglas Fowley. B&W.
SUZY (1936). MGM. Directed by George Fitzmaurice. Produced by Maurice Revnes.
Screenplay by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Horace Jackson, and Lenore Coffee, from a novel by Herbert Gorman. Principal cast: Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Reginald Mason, Inez Courtney, Una O'Connor. B&W.
WEDDING PRESENT (1936). Paramount Pictures. Directed by Richard Wallace. Produced by B. P. Schulberg. Screenplay by Joseph Anthony, from a story by Paul Gallico. Principal cast: Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, George Bancroft, Conrad Nagel, Gene Lockhart, William Demarest, Inez Courtney, Edward Brophy, Lois Wilson. B&W.
WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE (1937). Columbia. Directed by Robert Riskin. Produced by
Everett Riskin. Screenplay by Robert Riskin, from a story by Ethel Hill and Cedric Worth. Principal cast: Grace Moore, Cary Grant, Aline MacMahon, Henry Stephenson, Thomas Mitchell, Catherine Doucet, Luis Alberni, Emma Dunn, Frank Puglia. B&W.
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (aka Romance and Riches) (1937).
Grand National. Directed and produced by Alfred Zeisler. Screenplay by John L. Balderston, from a short story, “The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss,” by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Kendall, Iris Ashley, Leon M. Lion, John Turnbull. B&W.
TOPPER (1937). MGM. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Produced by Hal Roach.
Screenplay by Jack Jevne, Eric Hatch, and Eddie Moran, from The Jovial Ghosts by Thorne Smith. Principal cast: Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Eugene Pallette, Arthur Lake, Hedda Hopper, Virginia Sale, Hoagy Carmichael. B&W.
THE TOAST OF NEW YORK (1937). RKO Radio. Directed by Rowland V. Lee.
Produced by Edward Small. Screenplay by Dudley Nichols, John Twist, and Joel Sayre, from The Book of Daniel Drew by Bouck White and Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson. Principal cast: Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie, Donald Meek, Thelma Leeds, Clarence Kolb, Billy Gilbert, George Irving, Oscar Apfel, Dewey Robinson, Gavin Gordon, Joyce Compton. B&W.
THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937). Columbia. Directed and produced by Leo McCarey.
Screenplay by Viña Delmar, from a story by Arthur Richman. Principal cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Esther Dale, Joyce Compton, Mary Forbes, Zita Moulton, Bess Flowers. B&W.
BRINGING UP BABY (1938). RKO Radio. Directed by Howard Hawks. Produced by
Howard Hawks and Cliff Reid. Screenplay by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde. Principal cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Fritz Feld, Leona Roberts, George Irving, Tala Birell. B&W.
HOLIDAY (1938). Columbia. Directed by George Cukor. Produced by Everett Riskin.
Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman. Principal cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell. B&W.
GUNGA DIN (1939). RKO Radio. Directed and produced by George Stevens.
Screenplay by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Joel Sayre, and Fred Guiol, inspired by the poem by Rudyard Kipling. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joan Fontaine, Montagu Love, Robert Coote, Abner Biberman, Lumsden Hare, Ann Evers. B&W.
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (1939). Columbia. Directed and produced by Howard
Hawks. Screenplay by Jules Furthman, from a story by Howard Hawks. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, Sig Ruman, Victor Kilian, John Carroll, Allyn Joslyn, Donald Barry, Noah Beery Jr., Milisa Sierra. B&W.
IN NAME ONLY (1939). RKO Radio. Directed by John Cromwell. Produced by George
Haight. Screenplay by Richard Sherman from the novel Memory of Love by Bessie Breuer. Principal cast: Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Kay Francis, Charles Coburn, Helen Vinson, Katharine Alexander, Jonathan Hale, Nella Walker, Peggy Ann Garner. B&W.
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940). Columbia. Directed and produced by Howard Hawks.
Screenplay by Charles Lederer, from The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Frank Jenks, Regis Toomey, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, John Qualen, Helen Mack, Alma Kruger, Billy Gilbert, Pat West. B&W.
MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940). RKO Radio. Directed by Garson Kanin. Produced by Leo
McCarey. Screenplay by Sam and Bella Spewack, from Enoch Arden by Alfred Tennyson. Principal cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Ann Shoemaker, Scotty Beckett, Mary Lou Harrington, Donald MacBride, Pedro de Cordoba. B&W.
THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA (1940). Columbia. Directed and produced by Frank Lloyd. Screenplay by Sidney Buchman, from The Tree of Liberty by Elizabeth Page. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson, Paul Kelly, Irving Bacon, Elizabeth Risdon, Anne Revere, Richard Gaines, George Houston. B&W.
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940). MGM. Directed by George Cukor. Produced by
Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart, based on the play by Philip Barry. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young. B&W.
PENNY SERENADE (1941). Columbia. Directed by George Stevens. Produced by Fred Guiol and George Stevens. Screenplay by Morrie Ryskind, based on a story by Martha Cheavens. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran. B&W.
SUSPICION (1941). Columbia. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Produced by Alfred
Hitchcock (uncredited). Screenplay by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville (and Hitchcock, uncredited), based on Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty. B&W.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN (1942). Columbia. Directed by George Stevens. Produced by George Stevens and Fred Guiol. Screenplay by Irwin Shaw and Sidney Buchman, based on a story by Sidney Harmon. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell. B&W.
ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON (1942). RKO Radio. Directed and produced by Leo
McCarey. Screenplay by Sheridan Gibney, based on a story by Leo McCarey. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker, Albert Bassermann. B&W.
MR. LUCKY (1943). RKO Radio. Directed by H. C. Potter. Produced by David
Hempstead. Screenplay by Milton Holmes and Adrian Scott, based on a story by Milton Holmes. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Alan Carney. B&W.
DESTINATION TOKYO (1943). Warner Bros. Directed by Delmer Daves. Produced by
Jerry Wald. Screenplay by Delmer Daves and Albert Maltz, based on a story by Steve Fisher. Principal cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark. B&W.
ONCE UPON A TIME (1944). Columbia. Directed by Alexander Hall. Produced by
Louis F. Edelman. Screenplay by Lewis Meltzer and Oscar Saul. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson, William Demarest. B&W.
NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART (1944). RKO Radio. Directed by Clifford Odets.
Produced by David Hempstead. Screenplay by Clifford Odets, based on a novel by Richard Llewellyn. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Jane Wyatt, June Duprez, Barry Fitzgerald. B&W.
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944). Warner Bros. Directed and produced by Frank
Capra. Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, with contributions from Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, based on the play by Joseph Kesselring. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey, Priscilla Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Edward Everett Horton. B&W.
NIGHT AND DAY (1946). Warner Bros. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Produced by Arthur
Schwartz. Screenplay by Charles Hoffman, Leo Townsend, and William Bowers. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Ginny Simms, Jane Wyman, Mary Martin. Technicolor.
NOTORIOUS (1946). RKO Radio. Directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock.
Screenplay by Ben Hecht. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Madame Leopoldine Konstantin. B&W.
THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER (1947). Directed by Irving Reis. Produced by Dore Schary. Screenplay and original story by Sidney Sheldon. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins. B&W.
THE BISHOP'S WIFE (1947). RKO Radio. Directed by Henry Koster. Produced by
Samuel Goldwyn. Screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Leonardo Bercovici, based on a novel by Robert Nathan. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason.
MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (1948). Directed by H. C. Potter.
Produced by Dore Schary. Screenplay by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, based on a novel by Eric Hodgins. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Connie Marshall. B&W.
Every Girl Should Be Married (1948). RKO Radio. Directed by Don Hartman.
Produced by Don Hartman and Dore Schary. Screenplay by Stephen Morehouse Avery and Don Hartman, based on a short story by Eleanor Harris. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Franchot Tone, Diana Lynn, Eddie Albert. B&W.
I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (aka You Can't Sleep Here) (1949). 20th
Century–Fox. Directed by Howard Hawks. Produced by Sol C. Siegel. Screenplay by Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigelgass, and Hagar Wilde, based on a short story by Henri Rochard. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart, William Neff. B&W.
Crisis (aka Basra) (1950). MGM. Directed by Richard Brooks. Produced by Arthur
Freed. Screenplay by Richard Brooks, based on a story by George Tabori. Principal cast: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Ramon Novarro, Gilbert Roland. B&W.
People Will Talk (aka The Dr. Praetorious Story) (1951). 20th
Century–Fox. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the play Dr. Praetorius by Curt Goetz. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Walter Slezak, Hume Cronyn. B&W.
Room for One More (aka The Easy Way) (1952). Warner Bros. Directed by
Norman Taurog. Produced by Henry Blanke. Screenplay by Jack Rose and Mel Shavelson. Based on a book by Anna Perrot Rose. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Iris Mann, George Winslow, Lurene Tuttle. B&W.
MONKEY BUSINESS (1952). 20th Century–Fox. Directed by Howard Hawks. Produced by Sol C. Siegel. Screenplay by Ben Hecht, I. A. L. Diamond, and Charles Lederer. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Hugh Marlowe, Marilyn Monroe. B&W.
DREAM WIFE (1953). MGM. Directed by Sidney Sheldon. Produced by Dore Schary.
Screenplay by Sidney Sheldon, Herbert Baker, and Alfred L. Levitt. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Betta St. John, Buddy Baer. B&W.
TO CATCH A THIEF (1955). Paramount. Directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock.
Screenplay by John Michael Hayes (and Alfred Hitchcock, uncredited), based on a novel by David Dodge. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Brigitte Auber. Technicolor.
THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION (1957). United Artists/Stanley Kramer Pictures.
Directed and produced by Stanley Kramer. Screenplay by Edward and Edna Anhalt, based on the novel The Gun by C. S. Forester. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel, John Wengraf. Technicolor.
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957). 20th Century–Fox. Directed by Leo McCarey.
Produced by Jerry Wald. Screenplay by Delmer Daves and Leo McCarey. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Cathleen Nesbitt, Neva Patterson. Color by Deluxe.
KISS THEM FOR ME (1957). 20th Century–Fox. Directed by Stanley Donen. Produced by Jerry Wald. Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, based on the novel Shore Leave by Frederic Wakeman and the play by Luther Davis. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Suzy Parker, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston. Color by Deluxe.
INDISCREET (1958). Warner Bros./Grandon Productions. Directed and produced by
Stanley Donen. Screenplay by Norman Krasna, based on his play Kind Sir. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, Megs Jenkins. Technicolor.
HOUSEBOAT (1958). Paramount/Scribe. Directed by Melville Shavelson. Produced by
Jack Rose. Screenplay by Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino, Paul Petersen. Technicolor.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). MGM. Directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock.
Screenplay by Ernest Lehman. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll. Technicolor.
OPERATION PETTICOAT (1959). Universal/Granart. Directed by Blake Edwards. Produced by Robert Arthur. Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans. Eastmancolor.
THE GRASS IS GREENER (1960). Universal/Grandon. Directed and produced by
Stanley Donen. Screenplay by Hugh and Margaret Williams, based on their play. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Moray Watson. Technicolor.
THAT TOUCH OF MINK (1962). Universal/Granlex/Arwin/Nob Hill. Directed by Delbert
Mann. Produced by Stanley Shapiro, Martin Melcher, and Robert Arthur. Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Nate Monaster. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows, Dick Sargent, John Astin, Alan Hewitt. Eastmancolor.
CHARADE (1964). Universal/Stanley Donen. Directed and produced by Stanley Donen.
Screenplay by Peter Stone, based on a story by Peter Stone and Marc Behm. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy. Technicolor.
FATHER GOOSE (1964). Universal/Granox. Directed by Ralph Nelson. Produced by
Robert Arthur. Screenplay by Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff, based on a story by S. H. Barnett. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good, Verina Greenlaw. Technicolor.
WALK, DON'T RUN (1966). Granley. Directed by Charles Walters. Produced by Sol C.
Siegel. Screenplay by Sol Saks, based on a story by Robert Russell and Frank Ross. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton, John Standing, Miiko Taka. Technicolor.
SHORT FILMS AND CAMEO APPEARANCES
SINGAPORE SUE (1932). Paramount. Written and directed by Casey Robinson. Cary
Grant in a minor part. Starring Anna Chang. B&W.
PIRATE PARTY ON CATALINA ISLE (1936). MGM. Produced by Louis Lewyn.
Continuity and dialogue by Alexander Van Horn. Musical direction by Abe Meyer. With Chester Morris (Master of Ceremonies), Marion Davies, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Virginia Bruce, Lee Tracy, Errol Flynn, Lili Damita, Sid Silvers, Eddie Peabody, Leon Errol, Robert Armstrong, Charles “Buddy” Rogers and his Band. Technicolor.
TOPPER TAKES A TRIP (1939). United Artists. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod.
Produced by Milton Bren. Grant was originally slated to star in this sequel but did not. A short clip from the original Topper with Grant was used to introduce the film; it is Grant's only appearance in the sequel. B&W.
ROAD TO VICTORY (1944). Warner Bros. Ten-minute propaganda film starring Bing
Crosby, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Charles Ruggles, Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Jack Carson, Jimmy Lydon, and Olive Blakeney. B&W.
WITHOUT RESERVATIONS (1946). RKO. Grant makes an uncredited cameo appearance in this Claudette Colbert–John Wayne film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. B&W.
THE BIG PARADE OF COMEDY (1963). MGM. Two sequences from previous Cary
Grant films, Suzy and The Philadelphia Story. Grant sequences in B&W.
TRIBUTE TO AND SOLICITATION FOR THE WILL ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
(1965). B&W.
ELVIS: THAT'S THE WAY IT IS (1970). Brief uncredited appearance as himself.
Technicolor.
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT (1974). UA/MGM. Sequences from Suzy and Pirate Party on Catalina Isle. Grant sequences in B&W and Technicolor.
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, PART II (1976). UA/MGM. Sequence from The Philadelphia Story. Grant sequence in B&W.
TELEVISION APPEARANCES
ACADEMY AWARDS PRESENTATIONS. Cary Grant's live appearances at Academy
Awards ceremonies were televised five times: in 1957, when he accepted the Academy Award for Ingrid Bergman at the twenty-ninth annual Awards; in 1958, as the presenter of the Best Actor Oscar to David Niven (Separate Tables), at the thirtieth annual Awards; in 1970 at the forty-second annual Awards, when he accepted his Honorary Oscar; in 1985 at the fifty-seventh annual Awards as the presenter of an Honorary Oscar to James Stewart; and in 1979 at the fifty-first annual Awards, to present an Honorary Oscar to Laurence Olivier.
DAVE AND CHARLIE (1970). Sitcom. Unbilled guest appearance. The show starred Cliff
Arquette (as Charlie Weaver) and David Wilcock, two former radio stars. Grant loved the show and insisted on appearing on an episode as a background hobo.
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? (1975). Archive footage.
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD (1975). Archive footage.
IT'S SHOWTIME (1976). Archive footage.
THAT'S ACTION (1977).
HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN CANADA? A HISTORY OF CANADIAN MOVIES
1939–1953 (1979). Archive footage at Oscar dinner, 1942, with Rosalind Russell.
KEN MURRAY SHOOTING STARS (1979). Archive footage.
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE SALUTE TO ALFRED HITCHCOCK (1979).
SINATRA: THE FIRST 40 YEARS (1980).
KENNEDY CENTER HONORS: A CELEBRATION OF THE PERFORMING ARTS
(1981). Honoree.
GEORGE STEVENS: A FILMMAKER'S JOURNEY (1985). American Film Institute Salute to Gene Kelly (1985). Cinemax: Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988). Fame in the Twentieth Century (1993). Uncredited archive footage. Seventieth Annual Academy Awards (1998). Archive footage. Hitchcock, Selznick, and the End of Hollywood (aka American
MASTERS: HITCHCOCK, SELZNICK, AND THE END OF HOLLYWOOD) (1999). PBS. Archive footage.
HOLLYWOOD SCREEN TESTS: TAKE 2 (1999). Uncredited archive footage.
A&E BIOGRAPHY: SOPHIA LOREN—ACTRESS ITALIAN STYLE (1999). Archive footage.
MARILYN MONROE: THE FINAL DAYS (2001). Uncredited archive footage.
SHIRTLESS: HOLLYWOOD'S SEXIEST MEN (2002). Uncredited archive footage.
RADIO APPEARANCES
THE CIRCLE (1939). An NBC network talk show.
THE HOLLYWOOD GUILD (1939). On the CBS radio network.
THE LUX RADIO THEATER
Adam and Eve (May 5, 1935) First broadcast.
Madame Butterfly (March 8, 1937)
Theodora Goes Wild (June 13, 1938)
Only Angels Have Wings (May 28, 1939)
The Awful Truth (September 11, 1939)
In Name Only (December 11, 1939)
I Love You Again (June 30, 1941)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (January 26, 1942)
The Philadelphia Story (July 20, 1942). Special victory show for the U.S. government.
Talk of the Town (May 17, 1943)
Mr. Lucky (October 18, 1943)
Bedtime Story (February 26, 1945)
Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer [sic] (June 13, 1949)
Every Girl Should Be Married (June 27, 1949)
Mr. Blanding [sic] Builds His Dream House (October 10, 1950)
I Confess (September 21, 1953)
People Will Talk (January 25, 1954)
Welcome, Stranger (April 5, 1954)
GRANT AND THE ACADEMY AWARDS
Even before resigning from the Academy, Grant had privately expressed his disdain for the industry's self-serving practice of giving out awards to itself. In 1946 Harold Russell won a special Oscar for his performance in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives in addition to a regular Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the same performance; Grant's performances in two films that year, Michael Curtiz's Night and Day and Hitchcock's Notorious, were ignored by the Academy. Grant thereupon remarked to a friend, “Where can I get a stick of dynamite?”
Grant did not officially rejoin the Academy until September 1970, five months after receiving his Lifetime Achievement Oscar, and only after receiving a long and conciliatory letter from Academy Award–winning screenwriter Daniel Taradash, the newly elected Academy president who succeeded Gregory Peck. Taradash implored Grant to return to the fold. Only then did Grant reluctantly agree to end his thirty-five-year self-imposed exile. In response to Taradash, Grant wrote, “At the time because of what may have since become outmoded principles, I deplored commercializing a ceremony, which, in my estimation, should have remained unpublicized and privately shared among the artists and craftsmen of our industry. I'm not at all sure that my beliefs have changed; just the times.”
FILM NOTES
Highest estimated earnings by movie stars during the four decades Cary Grant made films:
1930s: Mae West. $480,833 per annum
1940s: Betty Grable. $800,000 per annum
1950s: James Stewart. $1 million plus per film
1960s: Cary Grant. $3 million per film
Highest-grossing films starring Cary Grant, based on the first initial theatrical domestic release. The list was compiled in 1972 by Weekly Variety, based on theatrical receipts in the United States and Canada. It should be noted that it has not been corrected for inflation, and that during Grant's thirty-five-year career, the average price of admission fluctuated between five and seventy-five cents. Nevertheless, Grant's later films managed to outgross his earlier ones consistently. None of the forty-seven films he made before Notorious (1946) make the list.*
Operation Petticoat (1960) $9,500,000
That Touch of Mink (1962) $8,500,000
North by Northwest (1959) $6,310,000
Charade (1963) $6,150,000
Father Goose (1965) $6,000,000
Notorious (1946) $4,800,000
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) $4,500,000
To Catch a Thief (1955) $4,500,000
The Pride and the Passion (1957) $4,500,000
I Was a Male War Bride (1949) $4,100,000
Night and Day (1946) $4,000,000
Walk, Don't Run (1966) $4,000,000
* Sources: Guinness Book of the Movies, Guinness Book of Records, Herrick Library, Rebel Road Library, Archive of Film and Music, The Films of Cary Grant by Donald Deschner.