Cary Grant
There is little disagreement that Cary Grant is the consummate film actor. He did it all: action, comedy, drama, character roles, mystery, biopics, and was the ultimate leading man. Perhaps the reason we still watch his movies is that he is yet to be replaced. In comedies like The Awful Truth (1937), His Girl Friday (1940), and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) he's up on his feet and quick with the timing and comedic lines. Yet, he is just as believable in his dramatic roles, such as the resolute, tough airline manager in Only Angels Have Wings (1939), the perhaps murder-plotting husband in Suspicion (1941), and a troubled husband and father in Penny Serenade (1941). Not to mention his great performances as the leading man in some of the "Master of Suspense's", Alfred Hitchcock's, top films. It is a wonder why he never won an Oscar.
Core Films
*= my personal favorites
The Awful Truth (1937)*
Bringing Up Baby (1938)*
Holiday (1938)*
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)*
Gunga Din (1939)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)*
His Girl Friday (1940)*
My Favorite Wife (1940)*
Penny Serenade (1941)*
Suspicion (1941)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)*
Notorious (1946)*
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
To Catch a Thief (1955)*
An Affair to Remember (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)*
Operation Petticoat (1959)
For More
Books
Biography; Cary Grant: A Class Apart by Graham McCann: https://www.amazon.com/Cary-Grant-Graham-McCann/dp/0231108850
Biography; Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart by Charles Higham and Roy Moseley: https://www.amazon.com/Cary-Grant-Charles-Mosley-Higham/dp/0450516121/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1519779378&sr=1-2&keywords=cary+grant+the+lonely+heart
Biography; Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant by Dyan Cannon: https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Cary-My-Life-Grant/dp/0061961418
Biography; Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant of by Jennifer Grant:https://www.amazon.com/Good-Stuff-Reminiscence-Father-Grant/dp/0307267105
Biography/Autobiography; Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best by Nancy Nelson: https://www.amazon.com/Evenings-Cary-Grant-Recollections-Words/dp/1557839239/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=28KMZC1V3HTKE8KTW4N2
Cary Grant in Irene Dunne in Penny Serenade
Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Theif
Cary Grant, wife Dyan Cannon, and daughter Jennifer
Cary Grant in a scene from The Awful Truth (1937)
Cary Grant with his third wife, actress Betsy Drake, in 1949. They starred in two films together.
Cary Grant in I'm No Angel (1933) with Mae West
Cary Grant (far right, front row) with the Bob Pended Stage Troupe
My Favorite Wife (1940)