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North by Northwest (1959)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Ernest Lehman
Cast Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Plot A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
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Notorious (1946)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, John Taintor Foote
Cast Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Plot The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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Director George Cukor
Writer Donald Ogden Stewart, Philip Barry, Waldo Salt
Cast Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Plot After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Cast Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Plot While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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Director Frank Capra
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring
Cast Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Plot Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...
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His Girl Friday (1940)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Cast Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Plot When a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
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Charade (1963)
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Director Stanley Donen
Writer Peter Stone, Marc Behm, Jeanne Saintenoy
Cast Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
Plot Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
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The Awful Truth (1937)
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Director Leo McCarey
Writer Via±a Delmar, Arthur Richman, Sidney Buchman
Cast Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy
Plot A married couple files an amicable divorce, but find letting go of each other harder than they originally thought.
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Suspicion (1941)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville
Cast Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke
Plot A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
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Holiday (1938)
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Director George Cukor
Writer Donald Ogden Stewart, Sidney Buchman, Philip Barry
Cast Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan
Plot A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer John Michael Hayes, David Dodge, Alec Coppel
Cast Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
Plot A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
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The Bishop's Wife (1947)
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Director Henry Koster
Writer Robert E. Sherwood, Leonardo Bercovici, Robert Nathan
Cast Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
Plot A debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.
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Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Jules Furthman, Howard Hawks, Eleanore Griffin
Cast Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth
Plot At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is compelled to risk the lives of his pilots in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl/harlot stops in town.
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An Affair to Remember (1957)
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Director Leo McCarey
Writer Delmer Daves, Leo McCarey, Mildred Cram
Cast Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning
Plot A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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Gunga Din (1939)
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Director George Stevens
Writer Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, Ben Hecht
Cast Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen
Plot In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.
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The Talk of the Town (1942)
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Director George Stevens
Writer Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman, Dale Van Every
Cast Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman
Plot An escaped prisoner must prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with help from a spirited schoolteacher.
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Operation Petticoat (1959)
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Director Blake Edwards
Writer Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin, Paul King
Cast Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien
Plot During World War II, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
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Director H.C. Potter
Writer Eric Hodgins, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Cast Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas
Plot A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.
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My Favorite Wife (1940)
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Director Garson Kanin
Writer Bella Spewack, Sam Spewack, Leo McCarey
Cast Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott
Plot Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the very day that her husband remarries.
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Father Goose (1964)
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Director Ralph Nelson
Writer Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff, S.H. Barnett
Cast Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard
Plot During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
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Topper (1937)
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Director Norman Z. McLeod
Writer Jack Jevne, Eric Hatch, Eddie Moran
Cast Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young
Plot A fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs.
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
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Director Irving Reis
Writer Sidney Sheldon, Louis Sauvat
Cast Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple
Plot A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.
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Penny Serenade (1941)
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Director George Stevens
Writer Morrie Ryskind, Martha Cheavens
Cast Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi
Plot A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unforeseen sadness and unexpected joy.
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Monkey Business (1952)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, I.A.L. Diamond
Cast Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe
Plot A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.
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I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigelgass, Hagar Wilde
Cast Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall
Plot After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
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Indiscreet (1958)
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Director Stanley Donen
Writer Norman Krasna
Cast Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker
Plot An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him--although he's already married.
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People Will Talk (1951)
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Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Curt Goetz
Cast Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie
Plot Dr. Noah Praetorius falls in love with Deborah, a student who discovers that she is pregnant by her old boyfriend.
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Blonde Venus (1932)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Jules Furthman, S.K. Lauren, Josef von Sternberg
Cast Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall
Plot A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.
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Destination Tokyo (1943)
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Director Delmer Daves
Writer Steve Fisher, Delmer Daves, Albert Maltz
Cast Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
Plot In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.
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That Touch of Mink (1962)
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Director Delbert Mann
Writer Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster
Cast Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young
Plot A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save herself for marriage.
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In Name Only (1939)
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Director John Cromwell
Writer Richard Sherman, Bessie Breuer, Andre Rigaud
Cast Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis
Plot After a wealthy man finds out his wife is a gold digger, he meets and falls for a widowed mother, and complications ensue.
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She Done Him Wrong (1933)
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Director Lowell Sherman
Writer Mae West, Harvey F. Thew, John Bright
Cast Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
Plot In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
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Houseboat (1958)
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Director Melville Shavelson
Writer Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, Betsy Drake
Cast Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Plot A widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.
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I'm No Angel (1933)
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Director Wesley Ruggles
Writer Mae West, Lowell Brentano
Cast Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff
Plot Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.
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Mr. Lucky (1943)
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Director H.C. Potter
Writer Milton Holmes, Adrian Scott, Charles Brackett
Cast Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford
Plot A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.
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The Grass Is Greener (1960)
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Director Stanley Donen
Writer Hugh Williams, Margaret Vyner
Cast Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Plot Victor and Hilary have guided tours in their English mansion. A US oil tycoon "bumps" into Hilary during a tour and charms his way into her heart. Meanwhile, Hattie pursues Victor.
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Walk Don't Run (1966)
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Director Charles Walters
Writer Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Sol Saks
Cast Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton
Plot During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
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Room for One More (1952)
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Director Norman Taurog
Writer Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson, Anna Perrot Rose
Cast Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle
Plot New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose become foster parents to several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into...
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Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
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Director George Cukor
Writer Gladys Unger, John Collier, Mortimer Offner
Cast Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
Plot When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
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Director Leo McCarey
Writer Sheridan Gibney, Leo McCarey
Cast Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak
Plot In Europe at the start of World War II, a woman notices that wherever her husband goes, the Germans seem to follow. Meanwhile, a charming reporter is following them.
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None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
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Director Clifford Odets
Writer Clifford Odets, Richard Llewellyn
Cast Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald
Plot When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
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Night and Day (1946)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Charles Hoffman, Leo Townsend, William Bowers
Cast Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley
Plot A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
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Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)
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Director Don Hartman
Writer Don Hartman, Eleanor Harris, Stephen Morehouse Avery
Cast Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Franchot Tone
Plot A willful woman concocts an elaborate scheme to trap a handsome pediatrician into marriage.
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The Pride and the Passion (1957)
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Director Stanley Kramer
Writer Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt, C.S. Forester
Cast Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
Plot During the Napoleonic Wars, a British captain is sent to Spain to help prevent the French from stealing a powerful cannon.
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss aka The Amazing Adventure (1936)
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Director Alfred Zeisler
Writer E. Phillips Oppenheim, John L. Balderston
Cast Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne
Plot A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
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The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
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Director Stuart Walker, Mitchell Leisen
Writer Seton I. Miller, Bogart Rogers, John Monk Saunders
Cast Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie
Plot The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
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Crisis (1950)
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Director Richard Brooks
Writer Richard Brooks, George Tabori
Cast Cary Grant, Jose Ferrer, Paula Raymond
Plot While on vacation in a Latin American country, an American neurosurgeon and his wife become tangled in a revolutionary uprising against a tyrannical dictator.
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Dream Wife (1953)
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Director Sidney Sheldon
Writer Sidney Sheldon, Herbert Baker, Alfred Lewis Levitt
Cast Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon
Plot A business tycoon decides to wed a Middle Eastern princess whose customs dictate the pair must live apart for several months before marrying. Even more complications settle in when the tycoon's ex-fiancée is assigned to chaperone ...
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Suzy (1936)
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Director George Fitzmaurice
Writer Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Horace Jackson
Cast Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant
Plot Believing that a German spy has killed her new husband (Franchot Tone), a struggling chorus girl (Jean Harlow) flees to Paris where she meets and marries a World War I pilot (Cary Grant), whose carefree ways bring unexpected results.
