1 00:00:00,491 --> 00:00:03,074 (gentle music) 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:07,020 --> 00:00:07,940 - This year, the Academy, 4 00:00:07,940 --> 00:00:09,600 in order to express its appreciation 5 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 6 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,113 to one of its members for a unique screen career, 7 00:00:14,180 --> 00:00:16,060 has voted an Oscar to Mr. Cary Grant 8 00:00:16,060 --> 00:00:18,416 for sheer brilliance in the acting business. 9 00:00:18,416 --> 00:00:21,583 (audience applauding) 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:43,810 No one's brought more pleasure to more people 11 00:00:43,810 --> 00:00:46,300 for as many years as Cary has 12 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:48,873 and no one has done more things well, 13 00:00:48,873 --> 00:00:51,440 from light comedy to strong drama, 14 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:52,640 and made it look easier. 15 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:56,720 No one has been more admired and loved by his fellow actors. 16 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,460 For skill, for finesse, for subtlety, charm, 17 00:01:00,460 --> 00:01:02,030 and for being Cary Grant. 18 00:01:05,058 --> 00:01:07,808 (dramatic music) 19 00:01:30,803 --> 00:01:32,421 - Hello, there. 20 00:01:32,421 --> 00:01:33,254 - Hello. 21 00:01:35,248 --> 00:01:37,630 - [Narrator] Cary Grant is one of the greatest leading men 22 00:01:37,630 --> 00:01:39,084 Hollywood has ever produced. 23 00:01:39,084 --> 00:01:39,917 - Hmm. 24 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,570 Tell me, why are you so good to me? 25 00:01:44,570 --> 00:01:46,553 - Shall I climb up and tell you why? 26 00:01:48,315 --> 00:01:51,280 (swing music) 27 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:52,800 - [Narrator] With unrivaled charm and 28 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,310 stunning good looks, he starred in a number of 29 00:01:55,310 --> 00:01:58,240 classic films including Bringing Up Baby, 30 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,507 To Catch a Thief, and North by Northwest. 31 00:02:01,507 --> 00:02:03,710 - Oh, I'm so sorry! 32 00:02:03,710 --> 00:02:05,460 - Ask the gentleman to come in. 33 00:02:08,011 --> 00:02:09,270 - You know, your husband is not like 34 00:02:09,270 --> 00:02:10,320 the average American man. 35 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,870 He has more the continental mind, yes? 36 00:02:12,870 --> 00:02:14,823 - Mm, yes, that's right, I have a continental mind. 37 00:02:14,823 --> 00:02:16,100 Will you have an egg nog? 38 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:17,606 - Oh, thank you. 39 00:02:17,606 --> 00:02:20,856 (film reel shuddering) 40 00:02:36,770 --> 00:02:39,260 - [Narrator] Cary Grant was a very private man. 41 00:02:39,260 --> 00:02:40,960 He only rarely spoke to the media. 42 00:02:42,712 --> 00:02:45,295 (gentle music) 43 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,980 This film draws on his unpublished autobiography 44 00:02:51,980 --> 00:02:53,860 and extracts from interviews 45 00:02:53,860 --> 00:02:56,860 as well as little-known footage he shot with his own camera. 46 00:03:02,630 --> 00:03:04,670 He had a filmmaker's eye 47 00:03:04,670 --> 00:03:06,890 and his often very personal images 48 00:03:06,890 --> 00:03:09,163 offer a window into his inner world. 49 00:03:11,945 --> 00:03:14,528 (gentle music) 50 00:03:25,210 --> 00:03:27,283 Cary Grant had invented himself. 51 00:03:28,330 --> 00:03:31,100 Driven by fierce ambition and a desperate need 52 00:03:31,100 --> 00:03:33,380 to leave childhood traumas behind, 53 00:03:33,380 --> 00:03:36,410 Archie Leach, the working class kid from Bristol, 54 00:03:36,410 --> 00:03:39,310 created for himself a new onscreen persona 55 00:03:39,310 --> 00:03:42,241 as an elegant and debonair man of the world. 56 00:03:42,241 --> 00:03:45,408 (audience applauding) 57 00:03:49,050 --> 00:03:51,120 Although he became a superstar, 58 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,620 he remained never quite sure of his true identity. 59 00:03:59,137 --> 00:04:02,337 He once said, "Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. 60 00:04:02,337 --> 00:04:04,267 "Even I want to be Cary Grant." 61 00:04:10,530 --> 00:04:13,630 In the late 1950s, at the height of his career 62 00:04:13,630 --> 00:04:17,073 and hitting midlife, he faced an existential crisis. 63 00:04:20,098 --> 00:04:22,681 (gentle music) 64 00:04:40,026 --> 00:04:42,530 - [Grant] For many years, I have cautiously peered 65 00:04:42,530 --> 00:04:45,773 from behind the face of a man known as Cary Grant. 66 00:04:47,170 --> 00:04:50,000 The protection of that facade was both an advantage 67 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,090 and a disadvantage. 68 00:04:52,090 --> 00:04:55,643 If I couldn't see out, how could anybody see in? 69 00:04:57,660 --> 00:05:00,593 You spend your time getting to be a big Hollywood actor, 70 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:02,630 but then what? 71 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,160 - [Narrator] Deeply insecure about his identity 72 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:13,930 and troubled by his inability to sustain 73 00:05:13,930 --> 00:05:16,380 longterm relationships with women, 74 00:05:16,380 --> 00:05:17,850 he turned to a solution that had become 75 00:05:17,850 --> 00:05:20,223 fashionable in the Hollywood of the late 1950s. 76 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:24,800 A number of California doctors and psychiatrists 77 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,003 had started using the drug LSD as a therapeutic tool. 78 00:05:29,270 --> 00:05:31,330 For Cary Grant, the treatment opened up 79 00:05:31,330 --> 00:05:33,690 the possibility of greater self-knowledge 80 00:05:33,690 --> 00:05:35,130 and a more fulfilled life. 81 00:05:36,432 --> 00:05:39,349 (gentle pop music) 82 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:54,840 - [Grant] I'd explored yoga, hypnotism, and mysticism. 83 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:57,950 Nothing really seemed to give me what I wanted 84 00:05:57,950 --> 00:05:59,733 until this LSD treatment. 85 00:06:03,270 --> 00:06:05,430 I was so confused when I first started seeing 86 00:06:05,430 --> 00:06:06,333 Dr. Hartman. 87 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,630 The action of the chemical releases the subconscious 88 00:06:12,630 --> 00:06:14,550 so that you can see what transpires 89 00:06:14,550 --> 00:06:15,980 in the depths of your mind. 90 00:06:19,464 --> 00:06:22,214 (dramatic music) 91 00:06:36,086 --> 00:06:39,650 (waves crashing) 92 00:06:39,650 --> 00:06:42,783 During therapy I passed through seas of horrifying 93 00:06:42,783 --> 00:06:46,920 and happy sights, through a montage of 94 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:48,923 intense love and hates, 95 00:06:49,852 --> 00:06:53,363 a mosaic of past impressions assembling and reassembling. 96 00:06:54,882 --> 00:06:57,632 (dramatic music) 97 00:07:08,714 --> 00:07:11,995 (baby crying) 98 00:07:11,995 --> 00:07:14,662 (waves lapping) 99 00:07:17,993 --> 00:07:20,493 (tense music) 100 00:07:25,024 --> 00:07:27,885 (gulls cawing) 101 00:07:27,885 --> 00:07:31,570 I don't know what I learned about love. 102 00:07:31,570 --> 00:07:33,800 It took a long time for me to even try 103 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,243 to understand love. 104 00:07:38,410 --> 00:07:40,910 I learnt manners from my parents. 105 00:07:40,910 --> 00:07:43,460 They taught me to be neat and organized, 106 00:07:43,460 --> 00:07:44,963 which I am to this day. 107 00:07:46,630 --> 00:07:49,773 I was born in Bristol, in a suburban house. 108 00:07:51,180 --> 00:07:54,680 My mother was a delicate black-haired beauty 109 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,623 with olive skin, frail and feminine. 110 00:08:00,510 --> 00:08:03,983 My parents had another boy, born before I was. 111 00:08:04,950 --> 00:08:08,520 My mother accidentally closed the door on his thumb. 112 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,610 He developed gangrene and died 113 00:08:11,650 --> 00:08:14,563 and she blamed herself for the rest of her life. 114 00:08:17,020 --> 00:08:18,653 She wasn't a happy woman. 115 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,170 I wasn't a happy child because my mother tried 116 00:08:23,170 --> 00:08:25,490 to smother me with care. 117 00:08:25,490 --> 00:08:28,410 She kept me far too long in baby dresses and curls 118 00:08:29,810 --> 00:08:33,140 and perhaps for a while I wasn't sure 119 00:08:33,140 --> 00:08:35,400 whether I was a boy or a girl. 120 00:08:37,970 --> 00:08:39,242 - Think it matches? 121 00:08:39,242 --> 00:08:40,282 - Oh, yes. 122 00:08:40,282 --> 00:08:42,865 (gentle music) 123 00:08:48,809 --> 00:08:51,226 (bell rings) 124 00:08:52,357 --> 00:08:55,220 - [Narrator] Cary's mother was aspirational. 125 00:08:55,220 --> 00:08:57,420 She wanted her son to learn the piano 126 00:08:57,420 --> 00:09:00,970 and beat him if his table manners weren't up to scratch. 127 00:09:00,970 --> 00:09:03,470 Archie would have to make sure he was a gentleman. 128 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,950 His father worked for a clothing manufacturer, 129 00:09:09,950 --> 00:09:10,993 pressing suits. 130 00:09:11,900 --> 00:09:15,320 He passed on his taste for smart clothes to his son, 131 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,130 a good suit being a sure way of 132 00:09:17,130 --> 00:09:18,830 making an impression on the world. 133 00:09:28,303 --> 00:09:31,470 (children chattering) 134 00:09:46,230 --> 00:09:48,490 - [Grant] The relationship between my mother and father 135 00:09:48,490 --> 00:09:50,523 seemed to grow unhappier. 136 00:09:52,490 --> 00:09:56,443 I came home from school one day and Mother was gone. 137 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:02,810 My cousins told me that she'd gone to 138 00:10:02,810 --> 00:10:05,350 a local seaside resort. 139 00:10:05,350 --> 00:10:08,510 It seemed rather unusual, but I accepted it 140 00:10:08,510 --> 00:10:12,043 as one of those unaccountable things that grownups do. 141 00:10:14,950 --> 00:10:17,760 However, the weeks went by and there was 142 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,110 no further explanation of Mother's absence 143 00:10:21,110 --> 00:10:22,880 and it gradually dawned on me that 144 00:10:24,070 --> 00:10:26,263 perhaps she wasn't coming back at all. 145 00:10:28,370 --> 00:10:29,923 There was a void in my life, 146 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,143 a sadness of spirit that affected everything I did. 147 00:10:35,740 --> 00:10:38,413 I always felt my mother rejected me. 148 00:10:39,832 --> 00:10:42,499 (wistful music) 149 00:10:52,413 --> 00:10:54,996 (bell ringing) 150 00:11:00,456 --> 00:11:03,206 (house crashing) 151 00:11:12,387 --> 00:11:14,970 (gentle music) 152 00:11:22,260 --> 00:11:25,020 - [Narrator] Shortly after her disappearance in 1915, 153 00:11:25,020 --> 00:11:27,920 his father left for Southampton to live with another woman 154 00:11:28,810 --> 00:11:31,030 and little Archie, only 11 years old, 155 00:11:31,030 --> 00:11:33,460 was left with his paternal grandmother, 156 00:11:33,460 --> 00:11:36,120 often alone and having to fend for himself, 157 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,783 hungry and in a cold house. 158 00:11:43,860 --> 00:11:46,130 His mother's disappearance seems to have 159 00:11:46,130 --> 00:11:49,080 created in him a sense that women couldn't be trusted 160 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:49,913 or relied upon. 161 00:11:53,209 --> 00:11:55,376 - Won't you say something? 162 00:11:57,767 --> 00:12:00,517 (romantic music) 163 00:12:04,432 --> 00:12:06,413 Don't you like it? 164 00:12:06,413 --> 00:12:07,663 - I don't know. 165 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:11,687 I don't know whether I like it or not. 166 00:12:14,773 --> 00:12:17,523 (dramatic music) 167 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:30,173 - [Grant] I regularly haunted the Bristol wharves. 168 00:12:31,530 --> 00:12:34,963 I sat alone for hours watching the ships come and go, 169 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,120 sailing with them to far places 170 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,440 on the tide of my imagination, 171 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,200 trying to release myself from the emotional tensions 172 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,233 which disarranged my thoughts. 173 00:12:47,850 --> 00:12:51,810 Yet, coincidentally, at such a dispirited time, 174 00:12:51,810 --> 00:12:55,100 my science teacher's assistant, an electrician, 175 00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:57,490 invited me to the Bristol Hippodrome 176 00:12:57,490 --> 00:12:59,963 in which he'd installed the lighting system. 177 00:13:01,308 --> 00:13:05,451 ♪ 25 of the boys feeling gay and hearty ♪ 178 00:13:05,451 --> 00:13:07,669 ♪ Some of them married and some of them not ♪ 179 00:13:07,669 --> 00:13:09,931 ♪ Oh what a merry party ♪ 180 00:13:09,931 --> 00:13:14,931 ♪ Then without a warning there came a heavy shock ♪ 181 00:13:15,390 --> 00:13:19,070 The matinee was in full swing when I arrived backstage 182 00:13:19,070 --> 00:13:20,810 and there I suddenly found myself 183 00:13:20,810 --> 00:13:24,130 in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people 184 00:13:24,130 --> 00:13:27,623 wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes. 185 00:13:28,870 --> 00:13:30,020 And that's when I knew. 186 00:13:32,030 --> 00:13:34,083 They happily traveled and toured. 187 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,523 They were classless, cheerful, and carefree. 188 00:13:41,220 --> 00:13:42,920 - You know me, fellas, when things get tough, 189 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,583 when I feel a worry coming on, you know what I do. 190 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:49,593 There! 191 00:13:49,593 --> 00:13:50,955 And then the worries are over. 192 00:13:50,955 --> 00:13:53,538 (bright music) 193 00:13:54,980 --> 00:13:56,950 - [Narrator] At the age of 14 he joined 194 00:13:56,950 --> 00:13:59,200 a group of grand acrobats, the Pender troupe. 195 00:14:02,730 --> 00:14:04,600 He traveled with them around Britain 196 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,500 and went along when they were invited to New York in 1920. 197 00:14:08,654 --> 00:14:11,821 (ship's horn blowing) 198 00:14:14,402 --> 00:14:16,902 (jazzy music) 199 00:14:23,968 --> 00:14:27,370 - [Grant] Manhattan island, that skyline. 200 00:14:27,370 --> 00:14:29,000 There it was. 201 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,173 I was actually there. 202 00:14:31,410 --> 00:14:33,200 Off we scurried to present ourselves 203 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,360 at the Hippodrome on Sixth Avenue. 204 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,820 It contained a revolving stage a city block wide 205 00:14:38,820 --> 00:14:40,600 on which appeared the most renowned 206 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,923 and spectacular acts of the day. 207 00:14:44,797 --> 00:14:47,380 (gentle music) 208 00:14:58,660 --> 00:15:00,470 - [Narrator] When the Pender troupe returned to England 209 00:15:00,470 --> 00:15:03,763 in 1922, Archie decided to stay on in New York. 210 00:15:06,330 --> 00:15:11,010 Barely 18, this brave choice showed remarkable ambition, 211 00:15:11,010 --> 00:15:12,530 which helped him through years of struggle 212 00:15:12,530 --> 00:15:14,030 trying to make it on Broadway. 213 00:15:15,083 --> 00:15:17,583 (jazzy music) 214 00:15:23,220 --> 00:15:25,330 By the end of the 1920s, he'd been cast 215 00:15:25,330 --> 00:15:27,460 in a series of musicals, 216 00:15:27,460 --> 00:15:30,210 always because of his exceptionally dashing looks 217 00:15:30,210 --> 00:15:31,680 rather than his singing skills, 218 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:33,280 which were far from outstanding. 219 00:15:36,021 --> 00:15:38,521 (swing music) 220 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:47,510 - [Grant] After having worked steadily 221 00:15:47,510 --> 00:15:48,940 for more than three years, 222 00:15:48,940 --> 00:15:51,570 I decided to take a vacation. 223 00:15:51,570 --> 00:15:54,010 I set out for California, 224 00:15:54,010 --> 00:15:57,103 the land of clear sunshine and palm trees. 225 00:15:58,725 --> 00:16:01,225 (swing music) 226 00:16:03,770 --> 00:16:06,808 - [Man] Over here on your right, playing hide and seek 227 00:16:06,808 --> 00:16:09,641 are Gary Cooper and Fredric March. 228 00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:16,700 - [Narrator] A week after arriving in Hollywood 229 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:20,310 in 1932, Archie Leach was signed to Paramount 230 00:16:20,310 --> 00:16:24,023 at 350 dollars a week, a high salary at the time. 231 00:16:25,020 --> 00:16:28,080 He was given a new, more audience friendly name: 232 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:28,963 Cary Grant. 233 00:16:31,390 --> 00:16:33,130 - [Grant] The following day the lawyers began 234 00:16:33,130 --> 00:16:35,290 preparing the contract. 235 00:16:35,290 --> 00:16:37,250 From a younger man's point of view, 236 00:16:37,250 --> 00:16:39,470 it promised fame and fulfillment, 237 00:16:39,470 --> 00:16:41,283 stardom and serenity. 238 00:16:42,860 --> 00:16:44,810 I couldn't know then that although I would 239 00:16:44,810 --> 00:16:47,540 gain the fame of an actor and the stardom, 240 00:16:47,540 --> 00:16:50,470 such as it is, I would still be seeking 241 00:16:50,470 --> 00:16:53,933 fulfillment and serenity 30 years later. 242 00:16:54,818 --> 00:16:56,490 - Honey, I wonder if you realize 243 00:16:56,490 --> 00:16:58,333 just how much you mean to me. 244 00:16:58,333 --> 00:17:00,110 I've never been so happy in my life. 245 00:17:00,110 --> 00:17:01,147 - You mean that? 246 00:17:02,595 --> 00:17:04,447 - Well, I guess love is a wonderful thing. 247 00:17:04,447 --> 00:17:06,911 - Yes, I've heard it highly praised. 248 00:17:06,911 --> 00:17:11,411 ♪ No one could be half as nice I know ♪ 249 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:14,920 - [Narrator] Paramount cast him in 250 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,440 a series of mediocre films alongside 251 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,420 Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, and others. 252 00:17:20,420 --> 00:17:22,810 He gradually learned to act for the camera, 253 00:17:22,810 --> 00:17:24,910 slowly honing the minimalist grace 254 00:17:24,910 --> 00:17:27,060 that would distinguish his screen presence. 255 00:17:33,150 --> 00:17:36,000 - [Man] As time went on, in addition to Malibu, 256 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,440 many of the stars built big homes further down the beach. 257 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,203 Sounds like Cary's having a party. 258 00:17:42,399 --> 00:17:45,482 (bright piano music) 259 00:18:00,090 --> 00:18:03,710 - [Grant] Surrounded by all sorts of attractive girls, 260 00:18:03,710 --> 00:18:06,373 I was never able to fully communicate with them. 261 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,120 Most of the women with whom I formed attachments 262 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,370 eventually made it evident that I was, 263 00:18:12,370 --> 00:18:14,633 from their point of view, impossible. 264 00:18:19,250 --> 00:18:21,500 If I'd paid more attention, 265 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:23,650 I might have found contentment in marriage. 266 00:18:37,851 --> 00:18:41,157 (people chattering) 267 00:18:41,157 --> 00:18:41,990 - What's the matter with you both? 268 00:18:41,990 --> 00:18:43,528 Don't you think it's fine? 269 00:18:43,528 --> 00:18:44,490 - What? 270 00:18:44,490 --> 00:18:45,950 - Why, to be in an orchard with the singing 271 00:18:45,950 --> 00:18:47,399 and the laughing and the dancing 272 00:18:47,399 --> 00:18:49,208 and the wine and the smell of the wet grass 273 00:18:49,208 --> 00:18:51,291 and all in the moonlight! 274 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:54,480 - [Narrator] The first real glimpse of Cary Grant's 275 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,660 acting skills came in 1935, 276 00:18:57,660 --> 00:18:59,390 when director George Cukor cast him 277 00:18:59,390 --> 00:19:02,540 alongside Katharine Hepburn in Sylvia Scarlett. 278 00:19:02,540 --> 00:19:05,730 He'd recognized, behind the gentlemanly performance, 279 00:19:05,730 --> 00:19:08,610 something of the actor's working class origins. 280 00:19:08,610 --> 00:19:09,443 - Haven't got wise to us, 281 00:19:09,443 --> 00:19:12,840 they'll gain passing information onto a customs officer who, 282 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:14,837 recognizing you as a man of public spirit 283 00:19:14,837 --> 00:19:16,250 chalks his moniker on your baggage 284 00:19:16,250 --> 00:19:18,503 and there you are, through with your cargo duty free. 285 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:23,213 The old sparklers. 286 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,760 - [Grant] Because he didn't know who the character was, 287 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,388 George Cukor let me play it the way 288 00:19:30,388 --> 00:19:32,453 I though it should be played. 289 00:19:33,660 --> 00:19:35,800 That was my breakthrough. 290 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,620 It permitted me to play a character I know. 291 00:19:38,620 --> 00:19:39,713 - Oh, there's plenty of room for both of us here. 292 00:19:39,713 --> 00:19:41,150 Go on, get your pajamas. 293 00:19:41,150 --> 00:19:42,150 Let's get curled up. 294 00:19:43,686 --> 00:19:45,068 - But, but uh... 295 00:19:45,068 --> 00:19:46,796 - Buh, buh, buh, buh, but what? 296 00:19:46,796 --> 00:19:48,252 - Well, uh... 297 00:19:48,252 --> 00:19:49,107 I'm afraid I'll snore. 298 00:19:49,107 --> 00:19:50,570 - Oh, well, I'll cure you of that. 299 00:19:50,570 --> 00:19:53,140 I'll give you a clump on the head every time I hear you. 300 00:19:53,140 --> 00:19:54,850 - [Sylvia] Yeah, but I kick, too. 301 00:19:54,850 --> 00:19:57,033 - [Jimmy] Ah, never mind about that. 302 00:19:57,033 --> 00:19:58,440 Hey, you know, it's a bit nippy tonight. 303 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,283 You'll make a proper little hot water bottle. 304 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,880 - [Grant] My father died in 1935 305 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:10,330 of what was medically recorded as extreme toxicity. 306 00:20:10,330 --> 00:20:11,343 Liver disease. 307 00:20:15,970 --> 00:20:18,480 My own life at the time of his death 308 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,413 was following a similar pattern. 309 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,883 My first wife, Virginia Cherrill was divorcing me. 310 00:20:27,308 --> 00:20:29,808 (tense music) 311 00:20:38,750 --> 00:20:41,790 LSD made me realize I was killing my mother 312 00:20:41,790 --> 00:20:44,103 through my relationships with other women. 313 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,513 I was punishing them for what she had done to me. 314 00:20:52,430 --> 00:20:54,220 I was making the mistake of thinking 315 00:20:54,220 --> 00:20:56,913 that each of my wives was my mother. 316 00:21:03,050 --> 00:21:06,850 Once you realize that you have all things inside you, 317 00:21:06,850 --> 00:21:10,603 love and hate alike, and you learn to accept them, 318 00:21:11,550 --> 00:21:15,203 then you can use your love to exhaust your hate. 319 00:21:16,750 --> 00:21:20,550 That moment, when your conscious meets your subconscious, 320 00:21:20,550 --> 00:21:22,400 is a hell of a wrench. 321 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,033 You feel the whole top of your head lifting off. 322 00:21:31,542 --> 00:21:34,125 (rain falling) 323 00:21:35,218 --> 00:21:37,801 (gentle music) 324 00:21:56,610 --> 00:21:59,827 - [Narrator] Cary Grant discovered in 1936 325 00:21:59,827 --> 00:22:01,660 that his mother was still alive. 326 00:22:01,660 --> 00:22:04,270 In all those years, his father had apparently 327 00:22:04,270 --> 00:22:05,303 never mentioned her. 328 00:22:10,870 --> 00:22:14,450 She was admitted to the Bristol Lunatic Asylum in 1915, 329 00:22:14,450 --> 00:22:16,550 mainly because of her husband's testimony. 330 00:22:17,550 --> 00:22:19,250 She was apparently hearing voices 331 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:23,070 and was obsessed with the idea of women being in her house. 332 00:22:23,940 --> 00:22:26,800 Extraordinarily, on such slim evidence, 333 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,383 she was locked up for 21 years. 334 00:22:29,918 --> 00:22:33,085 (rain falling gently) 335 00:22:38,587 --> 00:22:41,633 Cary's mother had never heard of Cary Grant. 336 00:22:42,820 --> 00:22:45,900 When she met him again and after so many years, 337 00:22:45,900 --> 00:22:48,237 she had trouble recognizing him. 338 00:22:48,237 --> 00:22:50,803 "Is that really you, Archie," she asked. 339 00:22:51,870 --> 00:22:54,463 He obtained her release from the asylum 340 00:22:54,463 --> 00:22:56,040 and set her up in Bristol, 341 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,690 making regular visits there for the rest of her life. 342 00:23:02,451 --> 00:23:05,215 ♪ Oh we're going to Wall Street to see old man Topper ♪ 343 00:23:05,215 --> 00:23:06,783 ♪ Ironbound Topper ♪ 344 00:23:06,783 --> 00:23:09,668 ♪ That moss-covered Topper ♪ 345 00:23:09,668 --> 00:23:11,489 ♪ That I promised to meet at his bank ♪ 346 00:23:11,489 --> 00:23:12,968 ♪ For the annual meeting of the board of directors ♪ 347 00:23:12,968 --> 00:23:14,748 ♪ At ten thirty in the morning ♪ 348 00:23:14,748 --> 00:23:15,850 - Too many words, honey. 349 00:23:15,850 --> 00:23:17,130 - Yeah, that's what I thought. 350 00:23:17,130 --> 00:23:19,620 - [Man] No, no, no, that's another vaudeville actor 351 00:23:19,620 --> 00:23:22,264 who went into motion pictures, Cary Grant. 352 00:23:22,264 --> 00:23:24,530 (bright music) 353 00:23:24,530 --> 00:23:26,216 - Come on, Hooper, the music's swell. 354 00:23:26,216 --> 00:23:27,609 - Huh? 355 00:23:27,609 --> 00:23:29,841 - I said the music's swell! 356 00:23:29,841 --> 00:23:31,390 - Can't hear you over that bloomin' music! 357 00:23:31,390 --> 00:23:32,457 - That's what I said. 358 00:23:36,750 --> 00:23:38,570 - [Narrator] At the end of his contract with Paramount 359 00:23:38,570 --> 00:23:42,600 in 1935, once again displaying great courage, 360 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,000 Cary Grant went independent. 361 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,419 From now on he was able to choose all his own roles. 362 00:23:49,419 --> 00:23:50,650 - Yeah! 363 00:23:50,650 --> 00:23:52,153 - Nothing's gonna hurt me anymore. 364 00:23:52,153 --> 00:23:52,986 (piano top crashes) 365 00:23:52,986 --> 00:23:53,893 Oh! 366 00:23:53,893 --> 00:23:54,849 (Lucy laughs) 367 00:23:54,849 --> 00:23:56,990 (piano music) 368 00:23:56,990 --> 00:23:58,263 - Take it! 369 00:23:58,263 --> 00:24:01,310 (dog barking) 370 00:24:01,310 --> 00:24:02,720 Yeah, well, you wouldn't mind if I looked around. 371 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:03,553 - Jiu jitsu! 372 00:24:06,140 --> 00:24:07,460 - My, isn't this cozy? 373 00:24:07,460 --> 00:24:09,090 - [Narrator] His career really took off 374 00:24:09,090 --> 00:24:11,260 with a series of now classic comedies 375 00:24:11,260 --> 00:24:14,310 directed by Leo McCarey, George Cukor, and Howard Hawks. 376 00:24:14,310 --> 00:24:17,330 (clattering) 377 00:24:17,330 --> 00:24:19,503 His persona navigated a totally individual 378 00:24:19,503 --> 00:24:22,220 and endlessly shifting equilibrium 379 00:24:22,220 --> 00:24:25,942 between sophisticated gentleman and man of the people. 380 00:24:25,942 --> 00:24:29,300 (Lucy singing) 381 00:24:29,300 --> 00:24:32,570 (Lucy laughs) 382 00:24:32,570 --> 00:24:36,020 He wasn't quite American, but not English either. 383 00:24:36,020 --> 00:24:38,090 His appeal to both men and women 384 00:24:38,090 --> 00:24:42,200 left open all kinds of questions about gender and sexuality. 385 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:43,500 You couldn't pin him down. 386 00:24:45,850 --> 00:24:46,975 - [Woman] Who are you? 387 00:24:46,975 --> 00:24:47,917 - Who are you? 388 00:24:47,917 --> 00:24:48,927 - Well, who are you? 389 00:24:48,927 --> 00:24:49,788 - What do you want? 390 00:24:49,788 --> 00:24:51,470 - Well, who are you? 391 00:24:51,470 --> 00:24:53,620 - I don't know, I'm not quite myself today. 392 00:24:53,620 --> 00:24:55,807 - Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes. 393 00:24:55,807 --> 00:24:57,790 - These aren't my clothes. 394 00:24:57,790 --> 00:25:00,350 - Well, why are you wearing these clothes? 395 00:25:00,350 --> 00:25:03,440 - Because I just went gay all of a sudden! 396 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:04,273 You lied to me. 397 00:25:04,273 --> 00:25:05,106 - No! 398 00:25:05,106 --> 00:25:06,285 Well, I did just a little bit. 399 00:25:06,285 --> 00:25:07,118 - Telling me a ridiculous story about a leopard. 400 00:25:07,118 --> 00:25:08,250 - No, but it wasn't a ridiculous story, I have a leopard. 401 00:25:08,250 --> 00:25:09,890 - Well, where is the leopard? - He's right in there. 402 00:25:09,890 --> 00:25:11,018 - I don't believe you, Susan. 403 00:25:11,018 --> 00:25:12,002 - But you have to believe me, you see-- 404 00:25:12,002 --> 00:25:12,835 - I've been a victim of your 405 00:25:12,835 --> 00:25:14,475 unbridled imagination once more. 406 00:25:14,475 --> 00:25:15,308 (leopard growling) 407 00:25:15,308 --> 00:25:16,792 The way you talk about (gasps) 408 00:25:16,792 --> 00:25:18,252 (door bangs shut) 409 00:25:18,252 --> 00:25:21,380 Susan, we settled that question once and for all. 410 00:25:21,380 --> 00:25:23,880 - But what about my leopard? 411 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,370 - Hmm, that's your problem. 412 00:25:25,370 --> 00:25:27,357 - It's not all my problem. 413 00:25:27,357 --> 00:25:29,575 (leopard growls) 414 00:25:29,575 --> 00:25:30,510 - Oh! 415 00:25:30,510 --> 00:25:33,893 Oh, Susan, Susan, don't go away, I've got the leopard! 416 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:37,030 - [Narrator] The Cary Grant persona 417 00:25:37,030 --> 00:25:40,340 displayed in the screwball comedies is very appealing, 418 00:25:40,340 --> 00:25:42,750 not least because Grant ceaselessly undermined 419 00:25:42,750 --> 00:25:45,520 the image of unshakeable sophistication, 420 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,393 playing with subtle echoes of down to earth Archie Leach. 421 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,320 - Would you, uh, like to go over to my room? 422 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,430 Got some letters from home, 423 00:25:55,430 --> 00:25:57,040 pictures of my father and mother, 424 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,450 pictures of me the first time I went up in the air, 425 00:25:59,450 --> 00:26:00,843 pictures of my first crash. 426 00:26:02,180 --> 00:26:04,143 - Any pictures of you when you were a baby? 427 00:26:04,990 --> 00:26:05,943 - I don't remember. 428 00:26:08,430 --> 00:26:11,097 (waves lapping) 429 00:26:15,310 --> 00:26:17,790 - [Woman] My darling son, I was delighted to 430 00:26:17,790 --> 00:26:20,550 receive your cablegram this morning. 431 00:26:20,550 --> 00:26:23,330 Very early I read in the newspaper a suggestion 432 00:26:23,330 --> 00:26:26,660 you were thinking of changing your nationality. 433 00:26:26,660 --> 00:26:28,890 I hope and trust you will do what's right 434 00:26:28,890 --> 00:26:30,730 in the sight of God. 435 00:26:30,730 --> 00:26:32,423 I have always trusted in him. 436 00:26:33,730 --> 00:26:36,620 I do, my darling, so wish you were nearer. 437 00:26:36,620 --> 00:26:39,493 I could see you more often and do for you. 438 00:26:40,530 --> 00:26:44,060 I felt ever so confused after so many years. 439 00:26:44,060 --> 00:26:46,300 You've grown such a man. 440 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:48,883 I am more than delighted you've done so well. 441 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,123 I trust in God you will keep well and strong. 442 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,880 Hoping to hear from you again soon, 443 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,750 I remain your affectionate mother. 444 00:26:59,750 --> 00:27:02,743 Fondest love, wishing you all the best. 445 00:27:06,370 --> 00:27:07,770 - [Narrator] Cary always said that his mother 446 00:27:07,770 --> 00:27:10,130 wasn't keen to join him in Hollywood. 447 00:27:10,130 --> 00:27:12,580 There's evidence that she would have gladly come, 448 00:27:13,530 --> 00:27:15,110 but for the Hollywood star, 449 00:27:15,110 --> 00:27:17,430 the last thing he wanted was someone around 450 00:27:17,430 --> 00:27:19,580 for whom he was still playing Archie Leach. 451 00:27:22,677 --> 00:27:25,427 (dramatic music) 452 00:27:59,670 --> 00:28:01,713 - See your tickets, please. 453 00:28:08,408 --> 00:28:09,741 Thank you, miss. 454 00:28:11,460 --> 00:28:13,702 I'm afraid you're in the wrong compartment, sir. 455 00:28:13,702 --> 00:28:14,535 - Well, it's a first class compartment, isn't it? 456 00:28:14,535 --> 00:28:15,620 - Yes, sir. 457 00:28:15,620 --> 00:28:16,453 - Well, then I'm all right. 458 00:28:16,453 --> 00:28:18,160 - This is a third class ticket, sir. 459 00:28:19,870 --> 00:28:21,730 - [Narrator] Hitchcock saw something very different 460 00:28:21,730 --> 00:28:24,293 in Cary Grant, something much darker. 461 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,940 The director was also a working class Englishman 462 00:28:28,940 --> 00:28:30,840 who'd reinvented himself in Hollywood. 463 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,830 He clearly sensed the presence of Archie Leach 464 00:28:33,830 --> 00:28:36,273 behind the star's smooth persona 465 00:28:36,273 --> 00:28:39,040 as well as the actor's essential insecurity. 466 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,623 (bright music) 467 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,760 In Suspicion, Grant plays the suitor of a rich woman 468 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,690 and the story plays with the idea 469 00:28:50,690 --> 00:28:53,040 that he might want to poison her for her money. 470 00:28:55,070 --> 00:28:57,530 - If you're going to kill somebody do it simply. 471 00:28:57,530 --> 00:28:59,521 Am I right, Dr. Sedbusk? 472 00:28:59,521 --> 00:29:01,233 - You're right. 473 00:29:01,233 --> 00:29:02,601 - How would you do it simply? 474 00:29:02,601 --> 00:29:03,509 - Mm, I don't know, dear, 475 00:29:03,509 --> 00:29:05,962 but I'd use the most obvious method. 476 00:29:05,962 --> 00:29:08,623 The most important thing is that no one should suspect me. 477 00:29:08,623 --> 00:29:10,497 - [Lina] For instance? 478 00:29:10,497 --> 00:29:11,330 - [Johnnie] Arsenic. 479 00:29:11,330 --> 00:29:12,953 - Ah, arsenic. 480 00:29:14,685 --> 00:29:17,185 (tense music) 481 00:29:24,210 --> 00:29:25,217 - Feel better? 482 00:29:27,370 --> 00:29:29,050 - What do you care how I feel? 483 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,610 - [Narrator] In Notorious once again 484 00:29:32,610 --> 00:29:35,420 aided and abetted by his soulmate, Hitchcock, 485 00:29:35,420 --> 00:29:37,150 he is immensely jealous and suspicious 486 00:29:37,150 --> 00:29:39,280 of the woman he's in love with, 487 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,973 much as he'd been in real life. 488 00:29:42,070 --> 00:29:43,720 - Do you want me to take the job? 489 00:29:45,220 --> 00:29:46,210 - You're answering for yourself. 490 00:29:46,210 --> 00:29:47,940 - I am asking you. 491 00:29:47,940 --> 00:29:49,450 - It's up to you. 492 00:29:49,450 --> 00:29:52,060 - [Narrator] He plays a man who's emotionally damaged, 493 00:29:52,060 --> 00:29:56,296 hard and cold and unable to receive or express love. 494 00:29:56,296 --> 00:29:57,697 - That you believe I'm nice and that I love you 495 00:29:57,697 --> 00:29:59,320 and I'll never change back. 496 00:30:01,726 --> 00:30:04,226 - I'm waiting for your answer. 497 00:30:06,423 --> 00:30:09,090 (waves lapping) 498 00:30:12,068 --> 00:30:14,095 (pop music) 499 00:30:14,095 --> 00:30:19,095 ♪ Sang love's refrain together ♪ 500 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,374 ♪ We'll always be ♪ 501 00:30:23,374 --> 00:30:25,502 (tense music) 502 00:30:25,502 --> 00:30:28,169 (alarm ringing) 503 00:30:29,633 --> 00:30:32,800 (shuddered breathing) 504 00:30:35,521 --> 00:30:38,271 (dramatic music) 505 00:31:04,406 --> 00:31:07,156 (bombs blasting) 506 00:31:17,220 --> 00:31:18,860 - [Woman] My darling son, 507 00:31:18,860 --> 00:31:21,723 I hope you are not experiencing the Blitz like here. 508 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,340 We've not had the alert for a couple of weeks. 509 00:31:26,630 --> 00:31:28,593 This is the third war I've seen. 510 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:32,703 I'm still living much alone with my little doggie. 511 00:31:34,710 --> 00:31:37,530 Darling, if you don't come over as soon as the war ends 512 00:31:37,530 --> 00:31:38,973 I shall come over to you. 513 00:31:43,030 --> 00:31:45,060 - [Narrator] While the war raged in Europe, 514 00:31:45,060 --> 00:31:48,030 Cary Grant did his bit to help the morale of the troops, 515 00:31:48,030 --> 00:31:50,045 but continued to work in Hollywood. 516 00:31:50,045 --> 00:31:52,545 (swing music) 517 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,090 Grant had a string of girlfriends after his divorce 518 00:32:25,090 --> 00:32:27,710 from Virginia Cherrill in 1935, 519 00:32:27,710 --> 00:32:29,303 never managing to settle down. 520 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,220 His marriage to the millionairess Barbara Hutton 521 00:32:32,220 --> 00:32:34,833 in 1942 ended badly as well. 522 00:32:36,820 --> 00:32:39,453 it was as if he were unable to open his heart fully. 523 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,350 The insecurity he developed as a child 524 00:32:43,350 --> 00:32:44,363 wouldn't go away. 525 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,240 - [Grant] The first breakthrough came 526 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,810 when I realized I was the one responsible 527 00:32:53,810 --> 00:32:56,573 for repeating the same mistakes and patterns. 528 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,140 One day when I was twisting myself all over the 529 00:33:02,140 --> 00:33:05,970 sofa in the doctor's office, it was as if a light 530 00:33:05,970 --> 00:33:08,083 finally went on in my brain. 531 00:33:09,260 --> 00:33:12,000 I had to take command. 532 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,670 I finally realized all the pain I thought 533 00:33:14,670 --> 00:33:17,060 my mother had caused me, 534 00:33:17,060 --> 00:33:19,203 I had caused her pain, too. 535 00:33:22,907 --> 00:33:25,407 (cello music) 536 00:33:31,430 --> 00:33:34,095 - You're a little flat there, are you? 537 00:33:34,095 --> 00:33:35,748 What's the music called? 538 00:33:35,748 --> 00:33:39,347 - [Woman] None But the Lonely Heart. 539 00:33:39,347 --> 00:33:40,650 - Italian? 540 00:33:40,650 --> 00:33:41,483 - No, Russian. 541 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,673 - [Narrator] None but the Lonely Heart was a darker film. 542 00:33:48,290 --> 00:33:50,450 Grant plays the kind of man he would've been 543 00:33:50,450 --> 00:33:51,750 had he never left Bristol. 544 00:33:53,570 --> 00:33:56,110 It's the story of a bitter, unemployed cockney 545 00:33:56,110 --> 00:33:58,520 who comes home to see his mother. 546 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,520 They have a very difficult relationship. 547 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,326 - Mean to do my best by you, my love. 548 00:34:03,326 --> 00:34:06,700 (loud slapping) 549 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:07,900 Happy couple, aren't we? 550 00:34:09,341 --> 00:34:11,660 - A bit of proper respect is what's needed. 551 00:34:11,660 --> 00:34:14,660 I get no more from you that I got from that father of yours. 552 00:34:15,930 --> 00:34:17,140 - [Narrator] This was not the kind of film 553 00:34:17,140 --> 00:34:20,840 Hollywood liked to do, but in 1943, 554 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,680 Grant insisted on buying the rights to the novel 555 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,080 so that he could star in it. 556 00:34:25,950 --> 00:34:29,733 Very strikingly, he put his father's photograph on the set. 557 00:34:29,733 --> 00:34:30,566 - [Ernie] Morning, Mum. 558 00:34:30,566 --> 00:34:31,399 - Morning, son. 559 00:34:31,399 --> 00:34:34,610 - [Narrator] As if to say this is where I come from, 560 00:34:34,610 --> 00:34:36,073 this is who I really am. 561 00:34:40,201 --> 00:34:41,347 - What happened to you last night? 562 00:34:41,347 --> 00:34:43,010 - [Ernie] Hit by a train, head on collision, 563 00:34:43,010 --> 00:34:45,110 half the wheels still spinning in me head. 564 00:34:46,690 --> 00:34:48,763 Hey, you're hat's on crooked. 565 00:34:55,301 --> 00:34:58,210 (bells chiming) 566 00:34:58,210 --> 00:35:00,740 - You'll have this shop for your own. 567 00:35:00,740 --> 00:35:02,623 You're all fixed up for a home. 568 00:35:04,050 --> 00:35:05,910 Why don't you look around? 569 00:35:05,910 --> 00:35:07,743 - Had too many looks around 570 00:35:07,743 --> 00:35:10,530 and what an ugly, unsanitary life it is. 571 00:35:10,530 --> 00:35:11,630 - Needn't be. 572 00:35:11,630 --> 00:35:12,483 - But it is. 573 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:15,563 - Lotsa love in you, Ernie. 574 00:35:16,510 --> 00:35:20,083 Wants an object, something to lavish it on. 575 00:35:20,972 --> 00:35:23,658 (dramatic orchestral music) 576 00:35:23,658 --> 00:35:24,861 - Oh, I'm sorry. 577 00:35:24,861 --> 00:35:25,694 After you. 578 00:35:25,694 --> 00:35:26,527 - Thank you. 579 00:35:31,530 --> 00:35:32,733 How many have you? 580 00:35:34,377 --> 00:35:35,210 - Hmm? 581 00:35:35,210 --> 00:35:36,580 Beg your pardon? 582 00:35:36,580 --> 00:35:37,800 - These. 583 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:38,823 How many have you? 584 00:35:40,210 --> 00:35:41,720 - Why, none, fortunately. 585 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:43,463 - Fortunately? 586 00:35:43,463 --> 00:35:44,363 - I'm not married. 587 00:35:48,070 --> 00:35:49,730 - And when I first saw you 588 00:35:49,730 --> 00:35:51,830 I knew that all I wanted was to cook 589 00:35:51,830 --> 00:35:54,430 little intimate dinners for you the rest of my life. 590 00:35:57,310 --> 00:35:58,930 - [Narrator] He met the actress Betsy Drake 591 00:35:58,930 --> 00:36:00,543 on a ship in 1949. 592 00:36:02,334 --> 00:36:05,867 He fell madly in love with her and pursued her relentlessly. 593 00:36:11,590 --> 00:36:14,340 She was very different from his previous wives, 594 00:36:14,340 --> 00:36:17,450 passionate about reading, yoga, mysticism, 595 00:36:17,450 --> 00:36:18,653 and self improvement. 596 00:36:21,250 --> 00:36:22,790 The two of them went out into the desert 597 00:36:22,790 --> 00:36:25,790 near Palm Springs and apparently took peyote 598 00:36:25,790 --> 00:36:26,963 with a Kaluya shaman. 599 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:33,330 It was Betsy who first tried LSD therapy 600 00:36:33,330 --> 00:36:34,843 and recommended it to Grant. 601 00:36:38,890 --> 00:36:41,450 - [Grant] Betsy was good for me. 602 00:36:41,450 --> 00:36:44,540 Her cautious, but steadily penetrative seeking 603 00:36:44,540 --> 00:36:47,210 in the labyrinths of the unconscious mind 604 00:36:47,210 --> 00:36:49,963 gradually provoked my interest, 605 00:36:50,910 --> 00:36:52,833 just as she no doubt intended. 606 00:36:55,729 --> 00:36:58,479 (dramatic music) 607 00:37:13,830 --> 00:37:15,530 - [Narrator] Encouraged by Betsy Drake 608 00:37:15,530 --> 00:37:17,930 and keen to pursue new interests, 609 00:37:17,930 --> 00:37:20,530 there was a brief spell during the early 1950s 610 00:37:20,530 --> 00:37:21,943 when he considered retiring, 611 00:37:23,130 --> 00:37:24,840 but Hitchcock came to him with an offer 612 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,003 he couldn't refuse. 613 00:37:28,940 --> 00:37:30,380 - [Announcer] Cary Grant and this year's 614 00:37:30,380 --> 00:37:32,480 Academy Award winner, Grace Kelly, 615 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,567 two exciting personalities who were made for each other. 616 00:37:35,567 --> 00:37:37,870 And now Alfred Hitchcock brings them into 617 00:37:37,870 --> 00:37:40,530 very close contact in this perfect tale of romantic 618 00:37:40,530 --> 00:37:43,423 intrigue, filmed on the beautiful French Riviera. 619 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,020 - Now, here comes some of the clever part. 620 00:37:48,544 --> 00:37:50,580 You're just not convincing, John. 621 00:37:50,580 --> 00:37:53,324 You're like an American character in an English movie. 622 00:37:53,324 --> 00:37:54,157 - Mm-hmm? 623 00:37:54,157 --> 00:37:56,200 - You just don't talk the way an American tourist 624 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:57,033 ought to talk. 625 00:37:57,033 --> 00:37:58,210 - Don't you know that all the guide books say 626 00:37:58,210 --> 00:37:59,130 don't behave like a tourist. 627 00:37:59,130 --> 00:38:01,283 - [Grant] Grace Kelly made it so easy. 628 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,180 There are very few actresses who really listen to you. 629 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:07,720 - Give up, John. 630 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:08,620 Admit who you are. 631 00:38:11,550 --> 00:38:14,450 Even in this light I can tell where your eyes are looking. 632 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,118 - [Grant] Most women are instinctively wiser 633 00:38:19,118 --> 00:38:21,593 and emotionally more mature than men. 634 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,763 They know about our insecurities. 635 00:38:25,815 --> 00:38:29,130 Men are so busy rushing around trying to prove themselves 636 00:38:29,130 --> 00:38:31,090 that they fail to develop the interest 637 00:38:31,090 --> 00:38:32,923 and curiosity shown by woman. 638 00:38:35,220 --> 00:38:38,046 - Ever had a better offer in your whole life? 639 00:38:38,046 --> 00:38:39,473 One with everything. 640 00:38:39,473 --> 00:38:41,973 (tense music) 641 00:38:50,290 --> 00:38:52,120 - I know, I look vaguely familiar. 642 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:53,580 - Yes. 643 00:38:53,580 --> 00:38:55,738 - You feel you've seen me somewhere before. 644 00:38:55,738 --> 00:38:57,197 - Mm-hmm. 645 00:38:57,197 --> 00:38:58,920 - Funny how I have that affect on people, 646 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,620 it's just something about my face. 647 00:39:01,590 --> 00:39:02,833 - It's a nice face. 648 00:39:03,980 --> 00:39:04,990 - You think so? 649 00:39:04,990 --> 00:39:06,590 - I wouldn't say it if I didn't. 650 00:39:07,710 --> 00:39:09,410 - Oh, you're that type. 651 00:39:09,410 --> 00:39:10,860 - What type? 652 00:39:10,860 --> 00:39:12,530 - Honest. 653 00:39:12,530 --> 00:39:14,180 - Not really. 654 00:39:14,180 --> 00:39:16,688 - Good, because honest women frighten me. 655 00:39:16,688 --> 00:39:17,521 - Why? 656 00:39:18,510 --> 00:39:19,350 - I don't know, somehow they seem to 657 00:39:19,350 --> 00:39:20,920 put me at a disadvantage. 658 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,040 - Because you're not honest with them? 659 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:23,873 - Exactly. 660 00:39:25,288 --> 00:39:27,080 (tense music) 661 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,510 - [Narrator] North by Northwest, 662 00:39:28,510 --> 00:39:31,006 perhaps his best known film, is fittingly 663 00:39:31,006 --> 00:39:33,053 about mistaken identity. 664 00:39:34,810 --> 00:39:37,110 It's also a film about a man who's running away 665 00:39:37,110 --> 00:39:41,233 from shadowy pursuers, but also running away from himself. 666 00:39:43,230 --> 00:39:46,290 This is a film about a man who has never been attached, 667 00:39:46,290 --> 00:39:47,390 but who has to commit. 668 00:39:51,340 --> 00:39:53,790 Once again, Grant was playing a role 669 00:39:53,790 --> 00:39:55,990 that mirrored the turmoil of his inner life. 670 00:39:58,010 --> 00:40:00,770 It's as if in this film he was being forced 671 00:40:00,770 --> 00:40:02,203 to grow up emotionally. 672 00:40:18,007 --> 00:40:20,924 (airplane roaring) 673 00:40:36,930 --> 00:40:39,350 - [Grant] The shock of each revelation 674 00:40:39,350 --> 00:40:42,320 brought with it an anguish and sadness 675 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,463 because of what wasn't known before, 676 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,000 the wasted years of ignorance. 677 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,223 And at the same time, the ecstasy of joy, 678 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,563 being free of the shackles of ignorance. 679 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,223 Now I know that I hurt every woman I loved. 680 00:41:06,446 --> 00:41:09,196 (dramatic music) 681 00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:42,613 After weeks of treatment came a day when I saw the light. 682 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,873 First I thought of all those wasted years. 683 00:41:48,430 --> 00:41:53,430 Second I said, "Oh my God, humanity please come in." 684 00:41:59,078 --> 00:42:01,661 (gentle music) 685 00:42:12,930 --> 00:42:15,450 - [Bonnie] Where do you keep those pictures? 686 00:42:15,450 --> 00:42:17,065 - [Geoff] What pictures? 687 00:42:17,065 --> 00:42:20,815 - Those pictures of you when you were a baby. 688 00:42:30,115 --> 00:42:34,794 Geoff, you don't have to be afraid of me anymore. 689 00:42:34,794 --> 00:42:37,377 (sultry music) 690 00:42:40,500 --> 00:42:42,403 - [Grant] Now everything's changed. 691 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,523 My attitude towards women is completely different. 692 00:42:47,870 --> 00:42:49,523 I could be a good husband now. 693 00:42:50,930 --> 00:42:52,970 I learned that my dear parents couldn't 694 00:42:52,970 --> 00:42:54,337 know better than they knew 695 00:42:56,178 --> 00:42:58,563 and I shall think of them always with love now. 696 00:43:00,996 --> 00:43:03,917 At last I am close to happiness. 697 00:43:06,002 --> 00:43:08,669 (Peter humming) 698 00:43:11,980 --> 00:43:12,813 - Drip dry. 699 00:43:15,150 --> 00:43:17,280 - How often do you go through this little ritual? 700 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,120 - Oh, everyday, the manufacturer recommends it. 701 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:21,963 - I don't believe it. 702 00:43:21,963 --> 00:43:24,463 - Oh yes, it's, wait a minute. 703 00:43:26,362 --> 00:43:28,010 - [Narrator] Grant looked amazingly good 704 00:43:28,010 --> 00:43:29,733 well into his fifties and sixties. 705 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,860 He was still totally convincing as the man 706 00:43:32,860 --> 00:43:35,730 that Audrey Hepburn, 25 years his junior, 707 00:43:35,730 --> 00:43:37,480 could fall hopelessly in love with. 708 00:43:38,390 --> 00:43:40,820 - Stop treating me like a child. 709 00:43:40,820 --> 00:43:42,900 - Well, then stop behaving like one. 710 00:43:42,900 --> 00:43:44,890 Now, if you want to tell me what's troubling you, fine. 711 00:43:44,890 --> 00:43:48,010 If not, I'm tired, it's late, and I want to go home to bed. 712 00:43:48,010 --> 00:43:49,707 - Do you know what's wrong with you? 713 00:43:49,707 --> 00:43:50,624 - No, what? 714 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:52,793 - Nothing. 715 00:43:56,910 --> 00:44:00,600 - [Grant] During my LSD therapy I learned a great deal 716 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,940 and the result of it all was rebirth. 717 00:44:03,940 --> 00:44:06,230 I got where I wanted to go. 718 00:44:06,230 --> 00:44:09,160 Not completely, because you cut back the barnacles 719 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,543 and find more barnacles and you have to get these off. 720 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,573 In life there is no end to getting well. 721 00:44:21,860 --> 00:44:23,920 - [Narrator] Whenever he returned to England 722 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,500 he would visit his mother in Bristol. 723 00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:28,220 Friends who went with him remarked on the fact 724 00:44:28,220 --> 00:44:30,020 that he was very excited to see her. 725 00:44:30,990 --> 00:44:33,560 But as he approached Bristol, his mood would change, 726 00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,513 he would gradually become more somber. 727 00:44:51,050 --> 00:44:54,240 When they met his mother, they were struck by her reserve 728 00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:55,313 and lack of emotion. 729 00:44:56,180 --> 00:44:58,020 It seemed as if something in their relationship 730 00:44:58,020 --> 00:44:59,023 didn't quite gel. 731 00:45:00,670 --> 00:45:03,050 In her letters, however, she'd always expressed 732 00:45:03,050 --> 00:45:04,700 a great deal of love for her son. 733 00:45:07,860 --> 00:45:10,213 She died at the age of 96 in 1973. 734 00:45:15,471 --> 00:45:18,054 (gentle music) 735 00:45:30,660 --> 00:45:33,640 Once he retired from film in 1966, 736 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,620 the most important thing in his life 737 00:45:35,620 --> 00:45:38,520 was the daughter he had with his fourth wife, Dyan Cannon. 738 00:45:45,490 --> 00:45:47,560 He continued to be offered many film roles, 739 00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,920 not least by Hitchcock and as the first James Bond, 740 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,400 but he wanted to be a full-time father 741 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,173 and Jennifer became the main focus of his life. 742 00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,633 The marriage to Dyan Cannon ended after two years, 743 00:46:04,710 --> 00:46:06,340 but he remained very close to Jennifer 744 00:46:06,340 --> 00:46:07,590 for the rest of his life. 745 00:46:09,471 --> 00:46:12,054 (gentle music) 746 00:46:40,194 --> 00:46:43,540 After a long courtship, Cary Grant married Barbara Harris 747 00:46:43,540 --> 00:46:44,593 in 1981. 748 00:46:48,220 --> 00:46:50,170 - The age difference was difficult for me 749 00:46:50,170 --> 00:46:52,750 to come over here and totally change my life, 750 00:46:52,750 --> 00:46:56,070 but became immaterial because I realized 751 00:46:56,070 --> 00:46:59,080 that to have someone whom you really love 752 00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,200 and who really loves you is far more important 753 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:02,700 than the age difference. 754 00:47:02,700 --> 00:47:05,480 And also because Cary was who Cary was. 755 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,060 Not Cary Grant, but because he was a man 756 00:47:08,060 --> 00:47:11,180 who was fascinated by life and wanted to 757 00:47:11,180 --> 00:47:14,360 investigate things the whole time, read new things, 758 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,910 he did not have a closed old mind at all. 759 00:47:16,910 --> 00:47:19,393 His mind was probably younger than mine. 760 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,270 But he was a little bit shy, a little bit anxious, 761 00:47:23,270 --> 00:47:25,050 a little bit wanting to make sure 762 00:47:25,050 --> 00:47:26,450 that I was the right person. 763 00:47:32,003 --> 00:47:34,753 (Barbara laughs) 764 00:47:37,170 --> 00:47:39,640 I had to prove that I was worthy of him. 765 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,140 Because I think he was a little bit wary of women. 766 00:47:45,980 --> 00:47:47,950 Somewhere in the depths of his mind 767 00:47:47,950 --> 00:47:50,850 was the fact that women were not always going to be there. 768 00:47:57,370 --> 00:48:00,290 Once he realized that I was in his life 769 00:48:00,290 --> 00:48:02,240 for the right reason and truly loved him, 770 00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:05,580 I think then all that had not been shown before 771 00:48:05,580 --> 00:48:07,440 was sort of showered on me. 772 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,905 Thank goodness, I mean it was wonderful. 773 00:48:09,905 --> 00:48:13,072 (audience applauding) 774 00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,960 Cary's shyness was a strange combination 775 00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:19,890 of someone who used to be a particular way 776 00:48:19,890 --> 00:48:21,110 and someone that he'd become, 777 00:48:21,110 --> 00:48:24,240 so there was still a little bit of the old Archie Leach 778 00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:26,253 that sort of stayed with Cary, 779 00:48:27,342 --> 00:48:30,000 but he didn't really love being out in the public too much. 780 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,590 I mean, he hated, for example, 781 00:48:32,590 --> 00:48:34,660 having to get up and make a speech. 782 00:48:34,660 --> 00:48:37,410 Absolutely hated it, he wouldn't eat beforehand, 783 00:48:37,410 --> 00:48:39,800 he would be terribly, terribly nervous. 784 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,540 That's why he loved the Conversations with Cary Grant, 785 00:48:42,540 --> 00:48:45,053 because someone was asking him a question. 786 00:48:46,070 --> 00:48:49,720 He started the whole evening by showing clips 787 00:48:49,720 --> 00:48:52,580 of many films where back flips were done 788 00:48:52,580 --> 00:48:54,250 and various other things were done 789 00:48:54,250 --> 00:48:56,300 and then he would tell a joke 790 00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:58,620 and then people were asking questions. 791 00:48:58,620 --> 00:49:01,913 So it was a format that he came up with and loved. 792 00:49:02,957 --> 00:49:05,624 (waves lapping) 793 00:49:09,990 --> 00:49:11,220 - [Narrator] As he was rehearsing a show 794 00:49:11,220 --> 00:49:16,220 in Davenport, Iowa, in November 1986 at the age of 82, 795 00:49:16,250 --> 00:49:18,818 Cary Grant suffered a massive stroke. 796 00:49:18,818 --> 00:49:21,401 (gentle music) 797 00:49:24,150 --> 00:49:26,163 He died in hospital the following night. 798 00:49:32,344 --> 00:49:33,260 - He was cremated. 799 00:49:33,260 --> 00:49:35,472 He didn't want a funeral of any description, 800 00:49:35,472 --> 00:49:38,890 he didn't want any party or anything 801 00:49:38,890 --> 00:49:40,410 to do with his death. 802 00:49:40,410 --> 00:49:43,050 So there was no funeral, there was nothing. 803 00:49:43,050 --> 00:49:45,430 Kurt Krikorian took, he did want his ashes 804 00:49:45,430 --> 00:49:48,980 spread over the sea, the ocean, 805 00:49:48,980 --> 00:49:51,210 and also over the house here 806 00:49:51,210 --> 00:49:54,310 and so Kirk Kerkorian took us up in a helicopter, 807 00:49:54,310 --> 00:49:55,950 Jennifer and I up in a helicopter, 808 00:49:55,950 --> 00:49:58,177 and we did exactly as Cary had wanted. 809 00:50:11,990 --> 00:50:13,250 - [Schuelke] Can you just describe to me 810 00:50:13,250 --> 00:50:14,584 what you're looking at right now. 811 00:50:14,584 --> 00:50:15,748 - [Grant] What am I looking out right now? 812 00:50:15,748 --> 00:50:16,581 - [Schuelke] Uh-huh. 813 00:50:16,581 --> 00:50:17,821 - Oh, how interesting. 814 00:50:17,821 --> 00:50:20,620 Well, I'm in a bedroom. 815 00:50:20,620 --> 00:50:22,670 It's a bedroom that still has an unmade 816 00:50:22,670 --> 00:50:24,372 king sized bed in it. 817 00:50:24,372 --> 00:50:25,315 (Schuelke laughs) 818 00:50:25,315 --> 00:50:30,315 Facing a TV set and it looks out upon Beverly buildings. 819 00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:36,550 Well, it has a long, sloping lawn in front of it, 820 00:50:36,550 --> 00:50:38,683 going down to a swimming pool. 821 00:50:40,100 --> 00:50:43,490 As I look out to my right as far as the ocean, 822 00:50:43,490 --> 00:50:46,160 there are many, many trees in my vision 823 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:51,030 and then I look down to the 20th century buildings. 824 00:50:51,030 --> 00:50:53,220 It's a very nice panoramic view up here. 825 00:50:56,968 --> 00:50:59,551 (gentle music)