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Suave Leading Man
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Grant was not always the suave cool sophisticate we think of him as. Starting
in a successful comedy troupe in England at 14 he sailed to America and
in 1920 decided to stay after a 5 year tour. After jobs as a placard carrier
and a Society Escort, Cary starred in a ten minute short Singapore Sue
and shortly thereafter did a screen test for Paramount and his film career
began. Cary never one an Academy
Award but his film career non the less it was a full and entertaining
one. He was handsome and talented, adored by both sexes and is missed
by many.
He had an adoring quality of playing the straight man finding himself
in ridiculous situations in such comedies as Bringing
up Baby, The
Philadelphia Story and Arsenic
and Old Lace and was even the object of Mae West's advances in I'm
No Angel. In the 1960's Cary turned to more dramatic roles and appeared
in such films as Hitchcocks North
by Northwest
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