Cary Grant: Dark Angel
Page 17
(GB title,
The Tree of Liberty)
Director: Frank Lloyd
(Columbia)
The Philadelphia Story
Director: George Cukor
(MGM)
1941
Penny Serenade
Director: George Stevens
(Columbia)
Suspicion
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
(RKO Radio)
1942
The Talk of the Town
Director: George Stevens
(Columbia)
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Director: Leo McCarey
(RKO Radio)
1943
Mr Lucky
Director: H. C. Potter
(RKO Radio)
Destination Tokyo
Director: Delmer Daves
(Warner Brothers)
1944
Once Upon a Time
Director: Alexander Hall
(Columbia)
None but the Lonely Heart
Director: Clifford Odets
(RKO Radio)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Director: Frank Capra
(Warner Brothers)
1946
Night and Day
Director: Michael Curtiz Warner Brothers
Notorious
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
(RKO Radio)
1947
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
(GB title,
Bachelor Knight)
Director: Irving Reis
(A Dore Schary Production)
The Bishop’s Wife
Director: Henry Koster
(RKO Radio)
1948
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
Director: H. C. Potter
(RKO Radio)
Every Girl Should Be Married
Director: Don Hartman
(RKO Radio)
1949
I Was a Male War Bride
Director: Howard Hawks
(Twentieth Century-Fox)
1950
Crisis
Director: Richard Brooks
(MGM)
1951
People Will Talk
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(Twentieth Century-Fox)
1952
Room for One More
Director: Norman Taurog
(Warner Brothers)
Monkey Business
Director: Howard Hawks
(Twentieth Century-Fox)
1953
Dream Wife
Director: Sidney Sheldon
(MGM)
1955
To
Catch a Thief
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
(Paramount/Alfred Hitchcock)
1957
The Pride and the Passion
Director: Stanley Kramer
(United Artists/Stanley Kramer)
An Affair to Remember
Director: Leo McCarey
(Twentieth Century-Fox)
Kiss Them for Me
Director: Stanley Donen
(Twentieth Century-Fox)
1958
Indiscreet
Director: Stanley Donen
(Warner Brothers)
Houseboat
Director: Mel Shavelson
(Paramount/Scribe)
1959
North by Northwest
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
(MGM)
Operation Petticoat
Director: Blake Edward
(Universal)
1960
The Grass Is Greener
Director: Stanley Donen
(Universal)
1962
That Touch of Mink
Director: Delbert Mann
(Universal/Granlex/Arwin/ Nob Hill)
1964
Charade
Director: Stanley Donen
(Universal/Stanley Donen)
Father Goose
Director: Ralph Nelson
(Universal)
1966
Walk, Don’t Run
Director: Charles Walters
(Columbia)
Index
Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards 49, 52, 69, 72, 81, 82, 91, 103, 119, 138, 160, 169
honorary award 171
Margaret Herrick Library 188
Adair, Jean 79
Affair to Remember, An 131-2, 131, 132
Agee, James 89, 110
Alexander, John 79
Alice in Wonderland 34
All About Eve 116
Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, The 41, 42, 43
American Army Air Corps 82
Anastasia 138
Andrea Doria 130
Anhalt, Edward & Edna 128
Antibes 125
Arnold, Edward 43
Around the World in Eighty
Days 126-8
Arsenic and Old Eace 13, 76-9, 78, 79, 90
Arthur, Jean 55, 59, 80, 163
Arthur, Robert 151, 160
Astoria 21
Avery, Stephen Morehouse 110
Awful Truth, The 46, 47-50, 48-50, 52, 65, 72, 82, 131
Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer, The 101-3, 103, 112
Baker, Herbert 119
Bankhead, Tallulah 25, 25
Barnes, Howard 90
Barrie, George 169, 173, 175
Barry, Philip 52, 64
Barrymore, Ethel 89, 89, 90-1, 91
Barrymore, John 76, 89, 173
Barthelmass, Richard 27
Beatty, Warren 177
Bellamy, Ralph 47, 52
Beloved Infidel 151
Bennett, Constance 44, 44-5
Bennett, Joan 42
Bercovici, Leonardo 104
Bergman, Ingrid 92, 96-7, 97-9, 100-1, 136-8, 136-9, 185
Berman, Pandro 39
Better Times 18
Beverly Hills 71, 136, 159, 162, 175, 182
Beverly Hills 90210 188
Beverly Hilton Hotel 187
Big Brown Eyes 42
Bishop Road School, Bristol 15
Bishop’s Wife, The 104, 105-7
Blair, Janet 88
Blonde Venus 25, 26
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice 173
Bogart, Humphrey 162
Bogdanovich, Peter 55
Boom, Boom 20
Born to Be Bad 36
Boy on a Dolphin 130
Boyer, Charles 131-2
Brando, Marlon 142
Bridge on the River Kwai, The 128
Brien, Mary 41
Bringing Up Baby 47, 50-3, 51, 119
Briskin, Sam 50
Brisson, Freddie 60, 60
Bristol 13-17, 41, 88, 101, 104, 149, 167, 177
Broadway Melody 20
Brook, Clive 25
Brooks, Phyllis 44, 44, 57, 57, 60, 62-3, 71
Brooks, Richard 115, 115
Buchanan, Jack 19
Buchman, Sidney 64, 80
Burns, George 18
Camille 52
Canby, Vincent 187
Cannon, Dyan 155, 159, 162, 162, 164-9, 167, 173
Capote, Truman 141
Capra, Frank 43, 76-9, 78
Carmichael, Hoagy 44-5
Caroline, Princess 180
Caron, Leslie 159, 160
Carroll, Nancy 29, 31
Casablanca 90
Champlin, Charles 187
Chan, Jackie 150
Chang, Anna 17
Charade 155, 156-8, 156-8, 175
Chang, Phil 21, 27
Chariot, André 19
Cherrill, Virginia 32-5, 34-5, 37-8, 71, 142
Chevalier, Maurice 20
Church of Religious Science 122
Cincinnati Kid, The 159
Citizen Kane 76
City Lights 32
Coburn,
Charles 119
Cogan, Alma 150
Cohn, Harry 42, 47, 63, 72, 80, 103
Colbert, Claudette 59
Coleman, Cy 160
Colman, Ronald 80, 80-1, 81, 103
Columbia 42-4, 47, 52-4, 57, 63, 69, 71, 80-1, 86-7, 103, 128, 163, 173
Coney Island 18
Cooper, Gary 23, 25, 31, 34, 37, 63, 81, 111, 128
Coote, Robert 53
Coward, Noel 19, 33, 177
Crisis 114, 115-16
Cromwell, John 56, 57
Crosby, Bing 34, 91
Crowther, Bosley 62, 64, 67, 88, 90, 99, 112, 119, 126, 133, 158, 160
Cukor, George 39-41, 52, 64-5, 65, 67, 69, 121
Curtis, Tony 145
Curtiz, Michael 90, 93-4
Daily Mirror (New York) 72
Damita, Lili 24, 37
Davenport 186
Daves, Delmer 86
Davis, Bette 76
Dawn Patrol 50
Day, Doris 149, 153, 154
Day, Laraine 84-6
Destination Tokyo 86-8, 87
Devil and the Deep, The 25, 25
Diamond, I.A.L. 118
Dietrich, Marlene 13, 25, 26-7, 29
Di Frasso, Dorothy 39, 57, 63, 82
Dodge, David 126
Donaldson, Maureen 175-7, 175-6, 180
Donen, Stanley 67, 133-6, 149, 155-6
Double Life, A 103
Drake, Betsy 107-10, 111, 112-17, 115-17, 119, 121-2, 128, 130-1, 133-6, 141-5, 149-50, 155
Drake, Frances 36
Dream Wife 119, 119
Duck Soup 47
Dunne, Irene 46, 47-9, 52, 59, 61-2, 61-2, 71, 72, 80, 131
du Pont, Mariana 41
Eagle and the Hawk, The 31, 32
Edwards, Blake 145
Eggar, Samantha 163-4, 164-5
Empire Theatre, Bristol 16-17
Enter Madam 37
Ephron, Nora 132
Epstein, Jules 133
Epstein, Julius & Philip 79
Esquire 36
‘Evenings with Cary Grant’ 186, 187
Every Girl Should Be Married 110-11, 111
Fabergé 169, 169, 175, 180, 180
Fairbanks Jr, Douglas 53, 53, 84
Fairfield Secondary School 16
Fame magazine 111
Farmer, Frances 43, 43
Farrow, John 126
Father Goose 159-63, 159, 160-1
Ferguson, Harvey 29
Ferguson, Otis 49, 52, 72, 86
Ferrer, José 115
Fields, WC. 34, 44
Fishponds mental hospital 16, 35
Fisk, Jim 43
Fontaine, Joan 73-4, 74-5, 76, 81
Foreman, Carl 128
Forester, C.S. 128
Fox, see Twentieth Century Fox Francis, Kay 56
Frank, Melvin 109
Friedlander, William 21
Front Page, The 29, 57, 60
Furthman, Jules 55
Gable, Clark 36, 111
Gallico, Paul 42
Gambling Ship 32
Garbo, Greta 23, 52
Garland, Judy 56, 121
Gering, Marion 21
Gibney, Sheridan 81
Gill, Brendan 160
Goetz, Kurt 116
Golden Dawn 16, 19
Goldwyn, Sam 104
Gone with the Wind 63, 73
Good Times 17-18
Gordon, Ruth 103
Grady, Billy 21
Graham, Sheilah 164
Grand Hotel 173
Grandon Productions 138
Grant, Barbara, see Harris, B.
Grant, Cary:
accent 18-19, 187
acrobatic skills 17
acting ability 62, 67, 84
acting ambitions 15-17, 18
American citizenship 54, 56, 79-80, 82
as Archie Leach 13-23
awards 171, 185, 186
as businessman 169-71, 175
change of name 20, 21, 23, 82
character 16, 37-8, 48, 71, 74, 86, 103, 121-2, 156, 160, 175
childhood 14-16, 14
cinema-going 15
and comedy 18-19, 47-8, 50, 60, 65, 79, 111
death 186
divorces 38, 93-4, 142, 155, 168-9
drug-taking 145-6, 155, 169
earnings 18, 19, 21, 27, 31, 32, 38, 42, 53, 61, 79, 86, 103, 104, 111, 116, 136, 142, 146, 153, 155, 168
emotional relationships 32-4, 44, 57, 60, 62-3, 71-2, 76, 107, 112, 129-31, 133-4, 150, 151, 155, 159, 175-7, 176, 180-2
family background 13-16, 34-5, 177
and fatherhood 72, 162-9, 171, 173-5, 177
first film role 21
friendships 21, 27, 41, 60, 88, 104, 121, 136, 142, 169, 182
goodwill tours 86, 86
homes 27-9, 28, 35, 41-2, 84, 91, 182
illness 112, 186
image 32, 142, 155
investments 27, 53, 142, 175
lecture series 186
marriages 35, 37, 71, 80, 82, 88, 88, 90-1, 115, 162, 162, 182-3
misogynist 48, 175
musical-comedy star 12, 16, 19-21
obituaries 187
psychotherapy 145-6, 155
retirement 119, 121-2, 166, 171, 173, 178
reviews 24, 25, 27, 29, 31-2, 34, 36, 38, 41, 42, 43, 44, 49, 51-2, 55, 57, 60-1, 62, 64, 67, 72, 76, 81, 82, 86, 88, 89, 90-1, 94, 99, 103, 104, 110-11, 112, 116, 117, 119, 126, 130, 132, 133, 138-41, 142, 146, 150, 153-5, 158, 160, 165
schooldays 15-16
screen persona 16, 43, 46, 49, 50-2, 55, 56, 69, 99-101, 131, 141, 142, 150-1, 153, 156, 187, 188
screen tests 20, 21
star status 53, 54, 70, 111, 122, 130, 141, 155
stilt-walking 18
studio contracts 23, 42-3, 63
temper 37, 168-9
tributes to 186-7
vaudeville years 17-19, 49
Grant, Jennifer 165-9, 166-7, 171, 173-5, 173, 177, 178-9, 180-2, 183-5, 188
Grass Is Greener, The 149-50,
ISO, 175
Greene, Graham 38, 57
Greenwich Village 18, 20
Guinness, Alec 128
Gunga Din 13, 53-4, 53, 55, 72
Gwenn, Edmund 39
Hammerstein, Arthur 19, 20
Hammerstein, Oscar 19
Hammerstein, Reggie 19
Harareet, Haya 150
Hardy, Oliver 47
Harlow, Jean 22, 42, 44
Harris, Barbara 172, 180-6, 181-3, 187, 188
Harrison, Rex 149, 159
Hart, Moss 76, 121
Hartman, Don 110
Hartman, Dr Mortimer 145, 155
Hawks, Howard 50-1, 53-5, 57, 59-60, 60, 74, 81, 111-12, 112, 118, 119, 182
Hawks, Slim 141
Hayes, John Michael 126
Hayworth, Rita 55, 56
Hearst, William Randolph 37, 44
Hecht, Ben 53, 57, 97, 118
Hell’s Angels 27
Hepburn, Audrey 155-7, 156-60
Hepburn, Katharine 39, 40-1, 47, 50-2, 51-2, 54, 64-9, 68-9, 81
Here Comes Mr or dan 177
Hippodrome, Bristol 16-17
Hippodrome, New York 17, 18
His Girl Friday 13, 57-60, 58-60, 65, 67, 111
Hitchcock, Alfred 73-4, 73, 76, 96-7, 97-9, 103, 122-5, 123, 138, 141-2, 142, 146, 182
Hodgins, Eric 109
Holden, William 128
Holiday 52-3, 52, 54, 54, 64
Hollywood 21, 27
Hollywood Park 175, 176, 180, 186
Hollywood Reporter 67, 76, 90, 117, 119, 142, 160
Hollywood Spectator 42
Holmes, Ernest 122
Holmes, Milton 84
Hope, Bob 79
Hopper, Hedda 71, 86
Hopwood, Avery 24
Hot Saturday 29, 29
Houseboat 133-4, 134-5, 142
Houston, John 128
Howards of Virginia, The 63-4, 63-4
Hughes,
Howard 27-9, 38-9, 44, 50, 59, 62, 64, 111, 112-15, 116, 182
Hull, Josephine 79
Humbert, George 44-5
Hume, Benita 32
Hunter, Louise 19
Hussey, Ruth 69
Huston, John 115
Hutton, Barbara 63, 71-2, 71, 76, 80, 82, 84-6, 88, 88, 90-1, 93-4, 142
Hutton, Jim 163-4, 163
Hyams, Joe 146
I Was a Male War Bride 111-12, 112-13
lies, Frances 73
I’m No Angel 32, 33
In Name Only 56-7, 57
Indiscreet 136-7, 138, 139-41, 149
Jamaica 160
John Hopkins Hospital 112
Johnson, Mabel 34
Kael, Pauline 60, 69, 158, 175
Kanin, Garson 49, 61-2, 103
Karloff, Boris 23
Kaufman, George 76
Keeler, Ruby 37
Keith, B.F. 18
Kelly, Grace 122-6, 123, 126-7, 141, 156, 183, 185, 185
Kelly, Jack 18
Kendall, Kay 149
Kennedy Centre 185
Kerr, Deborah 119, 119, 131-2, 131, 149-50, 150, 188
Kesselring, Joseph 76
King Kong 21
Kingdon, Elsie, see Leach, E. Kipling, Rudyard 53
Kiss and Make Up 36, 36
Kiss Them for Me 133, 133
Koster, Henry 104
Kovack, Nancy 150
Kramer, Stanley 128
Krasna, Norman 136, 138
Ladd, Alan 130
Ladies Should Listen 36
Landi, Elissa 37
Lane, Priscilla 79
Langdon, Harry 47
Lardner, Ring 159
Last Outpost, The 38
Laughton, Charles 25, 25, 36
Laurel, Stan 47
Leach, Archibald, see Grant, Cary
Leach, Elias 13-17, 34-5, 41, 42, 177
Leach, Elsie 13-16, 15, 34-5, 41, 54, 56, 101, 104, 116, 134, 149, 158, 162, 165-6, 177
Leach, John 13-14
Lean, David 128
Lederer, Charles 111, 118
Lehman, Ernest 141
Letter to Three Wives, A 116
Levitt, Alfred Lewis 119
Life 94
Llewellyn, Richard 88
Lloyd, Frank 64
Lombard, Carole 24, 24, 27, 56, 57
Lone Pine 54
Lonsdale, Frederick 104
Loren, Sophia 121, 128-31, 128-30, 133-6, 134-5, 141, 188
Lorre, Peter 79
Los Angeles County Museum
of Art 188
Los Angeles Mirror 116
Los Angeles Times 132, 165, 187
Love Affair 131-2
Love Parade, The 20
Loy, Myrna 37-8, 101-3, 108-9, 109
Lupino, Ida 90
Lux Radio Theatre 56, 112
MacArthur, Charles 53, 57
McCary, Leo 44, 47-52, 56, 61-2, 74, 81-4, 131-2, 131, 138
McCrea, Joel 163
MacDonald, Jeanette 20
Mack, Helen 36
McKendry, Margo 152-3
Mackenzie, Compton 39
McLaglen, Victor 53, 53
Magic Castle 183
Man Who Came to Dinner, The ?76
Mankiewicz, Joseph L. 64, 67, 116, 173
Mann, Delbert 153
Mansfield, Jayne 131, 133, 133
March, Frednc 24, 31, 32
Marx Brothers 47
Massey, Raymond 79, 79
Mayer, Louis B. 64