Cary turns on the charm for
sophisticated Deborah Kerr.
( x harm, like mercury, is elusive.
How do you pin it down? And how do you pin down
Cary Grant, Hollywood's synonym for charm? For there's
no doubt that, as rivals have grudgingly admitted for 25
years, "the guy's got it."
What is it? And how did he get it? The contradictions
in his career shed little light.
Cary began, as a clown, but later played opposite such
queens as Ingrid Bergman and Marlene Dietrich, and at
least one princess, Grace Kelly. He drove to Hollywood
in a secondhand car, then became one of filmdom's 10
top money-makers and one of the world's 10 best
dressed men. A master of light comedy, he leaps intr
swashbuckling roles (remember "Gunga Din"?) and
treads with equal assurance through heavy drama.
Those who know Cary
ofTer little assistance.
His wife, Betsy Drake,
says, "I agree with any
thing nice that's said
about him. I've been in
love with him for over
10 voars."
Sultrv Sonhia Loren.
Y TV his costar in "The Pride
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consensus. "His voice is
so-o-o . . ." she shrugs.
with a European wave of the hands, ". . . and the way he
looks at you . . . !" She shivers. Then, abruptly, "He is
such a gentleman."
Another former costar, Deborah Kerr, supplies a calm
Anglo-Saxon summation. "First of all," she says, "he's
the only man I know who becomes more handsome every
year. Secondly, his manners are impeccable. But most
important is his attitude. He wants people around him
to be charming, so he charms them."
The unemotional masculine analysis is given by the
producer of "The Pride and the Passion," Stanley
Kramer. "The guy was born with it," Kramer claims.
"The trouble is he has so much of it that people forget
he's also a fine actor."
Cary himself adds to the confusion by denying almost
everything. "I may act charming," he explains, "but
actually I'm a snob."
Cary gives his British father credit for his person
ality traits. "He once told me," Cary recalls, " 'It's better
to buy one pair of good shoes than five cheap ones.'
His parents were moderately well-off and Cary (who
was born Archibald Alexander Leach) was no delin
quent, but he ran away from home twice during his
teens. His goal: show business.
He was a knockdown comic and eccentric dancer with
an English troupe when he came to America. After a
job at Coney Island as a stiltwalker, he stumbled into
a few small roles on Broadway. Following a Summer
singing operettas in St. Louis, he took off for Hollywood
with a new name: Cary Grant.
In his first picture, "This Is the Night," he played
Thelma Todd's javelin-throwing husband. And, if you
want to know how well his charm has held together over
the years, check the date: 1932.
In those early years, Cary, who since has traveled in
the upper strata of society, was cast in two pictures
opposite Mae West.
Does he deny it? He bras about it!
"She mas ercat." the self-styled snob says.
everything from her. She had perfect timing, a meat
instinct for getting the best of every seene."
Cary't instincts led him to drop contract work and try
f'"c-lancing. Hia instincts were right. In rapid order
h- capture rk. in "Tower," "The Awful Truth, and
' bringing Up Baby," three all-tune comedy classics
Two decade nd several score pictures later, that
charrmng enigma Cary Grant is still up there at the top
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