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How many Cary Grant movies can you name?  He has 73 movie credits in all so you’ll probably be able to list at least a dozen off the top of your head even if you’re in the under 35 crowd.

A few fun facts about Cary:

• His real name was Archibald Alec Leach.
• He was a British actor who was best know for the films he made in America.
• Cary was voted as the 2nd Greatest Male Star of all Time.  Humphrey Bogart took first place.
• He believed his mother to be dead until he was in his 30’s.
• Some of his female costars included Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Katherine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Ginger Rogers and Irene Dunne.

 Some of the Cary Grant films that I enjoy are Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, To Catch a Theif and Notorious, and also That Touch of Mink with Doris Day.  But the spot for an absolute favorite is a tie between Houseboat with Sophia Loren and An Affair to Remember with Deborah Kerr.  It all depends on whether I’m in the mood to laugh or in the mood to cry.

Any way you look at it he set a high standard for the actors of today to live up to.