American Masters: Season 18, Episode 3Cary Grant: A Class Apart (7 Jan. 2004)Director:Robert TrachtenbergWriter:Robert Trachtenberg |
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American Masters: Season 18, Episode 3Cary Grant: A Class Apart (7 Jan. 2004)Director:Robert TrachtenbergWriter:Robert Trachtenberg |
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Barbara Harris | ... |
Herself - Grant's Wife, 1981-86
(as Barbara Grant)
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Jeanine Basinger | ... |
Herself - Film Historian
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Roderick Mann | ... |
Himself - Friend
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Nancy Nelson | ... |
Herself - Author 'Evenings with Cary Grant'
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| Betsy Drake | ... |
Herself - Grant's Wife, 1949-62
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| Elvis Mitchell | ... |
Himself - Film Critic, New York Times
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Virginia Cherrill | ... |
Herself
(archive footage)
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| George Cukor | ... |
Himself - Director, 1973 Interview
(archive footage)
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| Peter Bogdanovich | ... |
Himself - Director
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| Martin Landau | ... |
Himself - Actor
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James Harvey | ... |
Himself - Film Historian
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| Ralph Bellamy | ... |
Himself - Actor, 1988 Interview
(archive footage)
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Elsie Leach | ... |
Herself
(archive footage)
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Todd McCarthy | ... |
Himself - Author 'Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood'
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David Denby | ... |
Himself - Film Critic, The New Yorker
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This film made me feel the brilliance of Cary Grant and also made me understand the person a little. A guy born as Archibald Leech he changes his name to Cary Grant and from then on he consciously works on the image of this imaginary Cary Grant.
It is amazing to see a person work at his image this intensely, yet maintaining hold of his actual self. I saw this film completely by accident and I am not at all sorry for seeing it.
It also made me want to watch some of those old Cary Grant movies again. I recommend this for all movie fans, because it not only presents Grant, but the atmosphere and feel of the movie industry "back in the good old days".