“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant,” Cary once said. We`ll be staying at a friend`s house. Will spend my day listening. Have fun. Scarlet's voice is widely acknowledged to be an imitation of Grant's Mid-Atlantic accent. But recent memoirs published by the famed actor’s fourth wife and daughter reveal that behind the Hollywood charm, lay a troubled and complicated man. The call came early one morning in January, 1976. It was an established thing. On the ride back home, asked to choose which one of his movies he would watch in its entirety, he reluctantly said he`d choose ''Gunga Din'' because it was ''such good fun.'' '', The following day, Grant sat down for an interview, and seized on the opportunity to debunk his image within the Hollywood community as a tightwad. But apparently the legend was born. Grant is known for her work on the television talent contests Fame Academy, Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, and Pop Idol, and the children's television series Carrie and David's Popshop, together with her husband and colleague David Grant. Wonderful post!!! I figured he might have, but to see all these episodes in one place shows how busy he was. Somebody told him that Cary was having an affair with a male pianist named Phil Charig. Change ). As she got better, her name was changed to Ann. ''Chaplin is waiting a long time at a trolley car stop. In fact, this may be the most comprehensive collection of memorable Cary Grant radio presentations anywhere. Would Cary Grant, too, in so-called real life, turn out to be a jerk, a creep, a monster, another disappointment? Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor. ( Log Out /  Who was the real Cary Grant? ''When I was born, actors proclaimed their words to the audience. See more ideas about cary grant, cary, classic hollywood. The death certificate ascribed his passing to a “massive intracerebral hemorrhage.” Meet me tomorrow morning at the private jet terminal at the (Los Angeles International) airport.''. ''Hello, Gene,'' said the voice that sounded exactly like Cary Grant. '', Told that there would always be a place for Cary Grant on the trolley car, he gave an instantaneous response: ''I forgot to tell you. I went home to Chicago, ''East by Northeast.'' I took small doses under the supervision of a physician, both here and in England.'' '', After the meal, in the darkness of the parking lot, an intoxicated man greeted Grant loudly, bellowing, ''Hiya, Cary, ya` look great.'' Only one year later, they welcomed Jennifer to the world. Jennifer is the only daughter of “Penny Serenade” actor Cary Grant and “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” star Dyan Cannon, two very popular entertainers whose love story is nothing short of impressive. But then I woke up in the hospital and thought, `Oh, my God, I`m back here again.` I must say, I was rather disappointed.''. He attributed the appeal of his many comedies to the mass audience`s unquenchable desire to see the rich made fun of. The call came early one morning in January, 1976. Clearly, Grant was feeling the effect of the margaritas. His early years in Bristol would have been an ordinary lower-middle-class childhood, except for one extraordinary event. Does he actually talk like Cary Grant in person? Now, when you`re making a picture you have to have the same look throughout, so I was forced to keep my tan all year round. But I hated it. So you might as well get off. ''Oh, people always say that,'' he snorted as he lounged in a cream-colored shirt and white trousers above the pool at his Benedict Canyon home, ''I think it has become a thing to say to me how good I look. You couldn`t help but try to be graceful, so at least not to embarrass him. Cary Grant’s career and fame shot up from then on. Or do you already have plans for the weekend?''. A waitress walked over and asked, on behalf of a diner, ''Are you . He was so graceful and funny, even when drunk and leaning on me for support, that I couldn`t help but feel I was costarring in a Cary Grant movie myself, in this case a movie about games and music and conversation and a night out. ''I got the idea for the design after making `Gunga Din,` '' he had said. This is Cary Grant. Recorded directly from the old record!Played on a Technics turntable, a SL-B3.STEREO - Shure M91ED Phono Cartridge. But naturally there was commotion. “The Black Path of Fear” from March 7, 1946: “On a Country Road” from November 16, 1950: “Madame Butterfly” with Grace Moore from March 8, 1937: “Theodora Goes Wild” with Irene Dunne from June 13, 1938: “Only Angels Have Wings” with Jean Arthur from May 29, 1939: “The Awful Truth” with Claudette Colbert from September 11, 1939: “In Name Only” with Carole Lombard and Kay Francis from December 11, 1939: “I Love You Again” with Myrna Loy from June 30, 1941: “Here Comes Jordon” with Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, and James Gleason from January 26, 1942: “The Talk of the Town” from May 17, 1943 with Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman: “Mr. At each he simply played Cary Grant one more night, for a crowd that wanted to see precisely that in the flesh. Television presenter Carrie Grant and her vocal coach husband David have opened up about their extraordinary family life. Becoming Cary Grant focuses on the period between 1958 and 1961, detailing his life through the kaleidoscope of an estimated 100 acid sessions And pretty soon more and more people get on, it`s getting very crowded, and then you decide to get off. ''You can see that I haven`t. Signed to a contract at 18, she was put into a number of small roles under her real name of Clara Lou Sheridan. Pauline Kael’s 1975 profile of Cary Grant. They actually turned away from the actresses and talked to the audience. Before some excerpts from that 1976 interview, a few general comments about what it was like to be around him. ''But none of the men could keep their eyes off her,'' he said. It was an established thing. ''I think it got started years ago with an incident at the Plaza Hotel. Then I know how to speak my lines properly on the first take, while quietly taking a drink from the glass, placing it down on the table on one edge of its base first and then the other so that the noise doesn`t make the sound man go crazy, all the while still keeping my eyes on Grace Kelly. From Dear Cary : My Life with Cary Grant My sense that our relationship was deepening into something quite serious got a real boost a few days later. During the last four years Grant gave a series of lectures around the country, including one in September in Joliet. "Come round about noon, tomorrow," Hepburn trills in The Philadelphia Story … ''They kept pestering me for an introduction.''. It happened to be the weekend of my 30th birthday. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant made three pictures together. ''The whole point is to get pure again,'' he said. ''They always think actors are stupid,'' he said. And, now, back we go to January 1976 and to Southern California. One day I ordered English muffins for breakfast, and when they were delivered, I found there were three halves in the basket. He was first exposed to the drug through his third wife, actress Betsy Drake. You see the same things over and over. He used it ''100 or 150 times,'' he said, but stopped when it became illegal. In his honor – and for many hours of (our) enjoyment. . I, for one, distinctly preferred not. ''But how stupid can we be if we can make a million dollars for one movie? ''First I wrap my hand around the glass so that when I lift it, the key light shining on it doesn`t cause a glare. He said the film character he played who was most like his real self was the crusty, unshaven, and irascible hero of ''Father Goose'' (1964, his next- to-last film). 'Leaked' pictures of Cary Grant and Randolph Scott hint at a gay relationship that never was Film historian says seemingly intimate photos are just publicity shots from a more innocent age Among his most notable films are Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, Notorious, and North by Northwest. “Willing but not forward, Cary Grant must be the most publicly seduced male the world has known. But recent memoirs published by the famed actor’s fourth wife and daughter reveal that behind the Hollywood charm, lay a troubled and complicated man. Grant did little to mask his contempt for the unauthorized biography about him, or similar books about fellow stars of Hollywood’s halcyon days. Still, this wasn`t a time to risk an insult. Wow – did he ever do a lot of radio work. He also had the use of a company car. During our last day together, Grant told a story that he believed summed up his attitude toward his years as a Hollywood star. ''It used to be a more graceful world,'' he said.