1 00:00:27,250 --> 00:00:28,799 This year, the Academy, in order to 2 00:00:28,834 --> 00:00:31,465 express its appreciation for one of its members 3 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:36,834 for a unique screen career, has voted an Oscar to Mr. Cary Grant 4 00:00:36,869 --> 00:00:39,250 for sheer brilliance in the acting business. 5 00:01:03,750 --> 00:01:07,541 No one's brought more pleasure to more people for as many 6 00:01:07,576 --> 00:01:11,559 years as Cary has, and no one has done more things well, 7 00:01:11,594 --> 00:01:14,984 from light comedy to strong drama, and made it look easier. 8 00:01:15,019 --> 00:01:18,375 No one has been more admired and loved by his fellow actors, 9 00:01:18,410 --> 00:01:22,917 for skill, for finesse, for subtlety, charm, 10 00:01:22,952 --> 00:01:24,458 and for being Cary Grant. 11 00:01:56,583 --> 00:01:58,166 Hello there! 12 00:01:58,201 --> 00:01:59,667 Hello. 13 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,465 Hmm... 14 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:10,791 Tell me, why are you so good to me? 15 00:02:10,826 --> 00:02:14,083 Shall I climb up and tell you why? 16 00:02:45,625 --> 00:02:48,541 Cary Grant was a very private man. 17 00:02:48,576 --> 00:02:51,423 He only rarely spoke to the media. 18 00:02:51,458 --> 00:02:55,924 This film draws on his unpublished autobiography 19 00:02:55,959 --> 00:02:59,083 and extracts from interviews, as well as little-known footage 20 00:02:59,118 --> 00:03:01,667 he shot with his own camera. 21 00:03:06,917 --> 00:03:10,500 He had a filmmaker's eye, and his often very personal images 22 00:03:10,535 --> 00:03:12,667 offer a window into his inner world. 23 00:03:49,125 --> 00:03:52,340 In the late 1950s, at the height of his career 24 00:03:52,375 --> 00:03:55,667 and hitting mid-life, he faced an existential crisis. 25 00:04:31,709 --> 00:04:35,041 "For many years, I have cautiously peered from behind 26 00:04:35,076 --> 00:04:39,298 the face of a man known as Cary Grant. 27 00:04:39,333 --> 00:04:41,083 The protection of that facade was both an advantage 28 00:04:41,118 --> 00:04:44,382 and a disadvantage. 29 00:04:44,417 --> 00:04:50,021 If I couldn't see out, how could anybody see in? 30 00:04:50,056 --> 00:04:55,590 All my life, I've been going around in a fog. 31 00:04:55,625 --> 00:05:00,271 You're just a bunch of molecules until you know who you are. 32 00:05:00,306 --> 00:05:04,917 You spend your time getting to be a big Hollywood actor, 33 00:05:04,952 --> 00:05:07,291 but then what? 34 00:05:19,667 --> 00:05:24,875 All my life, I've been searching for peace of mind. 35 00:05:33,625 --> 00:05:37,646 I wanted to rid myself of all my hypocrisies. " 36 00:05:37,681 --> 00:05:41,667 Now, Esther, don't you like the way I'm doing this? 37 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,583 "It was a time when people were attempting to find something 38 00:05:46,618 --> 00:05:50,458 inside of themselves that they felt they lacked. 39 00:06:04,166 --> 00:06:08,667 I was so confused when I first started seeing Dr. Hartman. 40 00:06:08,702 --> 00:06:12,122 I'd explored yoga, hypnotism, and mysticism. 41 00:06:12,157 --> 00:06:15,542 Nothing really seemed to give me what I wanted 42 00:06:15,577 --> 00:06:18,709 until this LSD treatment. 43 00:06:24,417 --> 00:06:25,917 One of the first things you did when you got there 44 00:06:25,952 --> 00:06:27,709 is you selected your music. 45 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:34,770 And the music would play, whatever your music was, 46 00:06:34,805 --> 00:06:38,041 and then you would gradually begin going with it, 47 00:06:38,076 --> 00:06:39,834 if you would. 48 00:06:51,625 --> 00:06:55,041 This reality started disappearing in another kind of 49 00:06:55,076 --> 00:06:56,850 unconscious mind, or whatever. 50 00:06:56,885 --> 00:06:58,590 We used to call it fusion. 51 00:06:58,625 --> 00:07:02,187 Apparently, the idea was that you would fuse with the sort of 52 00:07:02,222 --> 00:07:05,750 universal concept of the world and yourself in the world. 53 00:07:11,458 --> 00:07:13,792 Some people found that very difficult and didn't do it 54 00:07:13,827 --> 00:07:18,500 at all and were quite resistant or alarmed by it. 55 00:07:18,535 --> 00:07:19,590 Cary was not. 56 00:07:19,625 --> 00:07:22,291 Cary took to it instantly. 57 00:07:35,083 --> 00:07:36,882 I don't recall ever being at the pool with him, 58 00:07:36,917 --> 00:07:41,041 or at a beach or anything, I don't recall any of that. 59 00:07:45,041 --> 00:07:50,750 The thing I think it's important to remember about Cary, always, 60 00:07:50,785 --> 00:07:55,000 is contained in that wonderful thing he said about himself. 61 00:07:55,035 --> 00:07:57,458 He said, "Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. 62 00:07:57,493 --> 00:07:58,799 Even I want to be Cary Grant. " 63 00:07:58,834 --> 00:08:01,417 And everybody laughed and thought that was really funny. 64 00:08:01,452 --> 00:08:07,125 But, for me, that's the crux of Cary. 65 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:10,333 Cary invented himself. 66 00:08:17,959 --> 00:08:21,041 I wonder if I could have just a little bit more of your smile. 67 00:08:21,076 --> 00:08:23,375 Oh, no, not at this hour of the morning. 68 00:08:25,083 --> 00:08:29,417 Cary did a masterful job of it, and, of course, it worked 69 00:08:29,452 --> 00:08:34,006 superbly on screen and in life, socially. 70 00:08:34,041 --> 00:08:37,173 But he got to that place at 52, without looking back 71 00:08:37,208 --> 00:08:40,792 at what he had experienced as a child, you know, and a teenager, 72 00:08:40,827 --> 00:08:45,288 which must have had terrible scars on him emotionally. 73 00:08:45,323 --> 00:08:49,715 And the fact that the LSD allowed him to open that 74 00:08:49,750 --> 00:08:52,965 universe up and examine it and put that into context with 75 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,312 the Cary Grant he had become, was an extraordinary experience, 76 00:08:57,347 --> 00:09:01,625 which is, I think, why he was so - you know, always spoke with 77 00:09:01,660 --> 00:09:06,208 such respect about his experience with LSD. 78 00:09:24,250 --> 00:09:28,542 The sessions were scheduled for five hours each, 79 00:09:28,577 --> 00:09:33,840 and they were scheduled once a week. 80 00:09:33,875 --> 00:09:37,979 And then there were some after-effects of the chemicals 81 00:09:38,014 --> 00:09:42,083 that would stay with you for a few hours afterwards. 82 00:09:42,118 --> 00:09:45,625 So it was virtually a day that you'd have to 83 00:09:45,660 --> 00:09:47,291 give up for that. 84 00:10:07,166 --> 00:10:10,048 "The action of the chemical releases the subconscious so 85 00:10:10,083 --> 00:10:14,166 that you can see what transpires in the depths of your mind. " 86 00:10:19,166 --> 00:10:23,666 "During therapy, I passed through seas of horrifying and 87 00:10:23,701 --> 00:10:28,413 happy sights, through a montage of intense love and hate, 88 00:10:28,448 --> 00:10:33,125 a mosaic of past impressions assembling and reassembling. " 89 00:11:19,166 --> 00:11:24,215 "I don't know what I learned about love. 90 00:11:24,250 --> 00:11:31,667 It took a long time for me to even try to understand love. 91 00:11:31,702 --> 00:11:34,674 I learned manners from my parents. 92 00:11:34,709 --> 00:11:36,667 They taught me to be neat and organized, 93 00:11:36,702 --> 00:11:39,041 which I am to this day. 94 00:11:41,250 --> 00:11:44,666 I was born in Bristol in a suburban house, 95 00:11:44,701 --> 00:11:48,083 which, lacking modern heating conveniences, 96 00:11:48,118 --> 00:11:51,500 kept only one step ahead of freezing. 97 00:11:57,500 --> 00:12:01,417 My mother was a delicate black-haired beauty 98 00:12:01,452 --> 00:12:04,965 with olive skin, frail and feminine. 99 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,667 What isn't apparent in the photograph is the extent 100 00:12:08,702 --> 00:12:14,674 of her strength and her will to control. 101 00:12:14,709 --> 00:12:18,173 My parents had another boy, born before I was. 102 00:12:18,208 --> 00:12:21,792 My mother accidentally closed the door on his thumb. 103 00:12:21,827 --> 00:12:26,090 He developed gangrene and died, 104 00:12:26,125 --> 00:12:32,583 and she blamed herself for the rest of her life. 105 00:12:32,618 --> 00:12:35,267 She wasn't a happy woman. 106 00:12:35,302 --> 00:12:37,882 I wasn't a happy child... 107 00:12:37,917 --> 00:12:41,062 because my mother tried to smother me with care. 108 00:12:41,097 --> 00:12:44,798 She kept me far too long in baby dresses and curls, 109 00:12:44,833 --> 00:12:48,500 and perhaps, for a while, I wasn't sure whether 110 00:12:48,535 --> 00:12:51,917 I was a boy or a girl. " 111 00:12:55,542 --> 00:12:58,298 Think it matches? 112 00:12:58,333 --> 00:13:00,458 Ask the gentleman to come in. 113 00:13:21,709 --> 00:13:24,583 Clearly, his mother was very aspirational. 114 00:13:24,618 --> 00:13:27,458 She made sure that he had piano lessons, 115 00:13:27,493 --> 00:13:29,892 that he learned good table manners, 116 00:13:29,927 --> 00:13:32,256 that he said please and thank you. 117 00:13:32,291 --> 00:13:36,500 She punished him when he did anything wrong at the table. 118 00:13:36,535 --> 00:13:40,709 She was trying to make him into the perfect gentleman 119 00:13:40,744 --> 00:13:44,166 that he became in later life. 120 00:13:44,201 --> 00:13:45,746 What do you think? 121 00:13:45,781 --> 00:13:47,256 Fits rather well. 122 00:13:47,291 --> 00:13:49,374 But are you sure it's what you want, Dr. Fulton? 123 00:13:49,409 --> 00:13:51,458 Well, tell me, do they ever wear trousers to match? 124 00:13:51,493 --> 00:13:54,423 Oh, very seldom. 125 00:13:54,458 --> 00:13:57,340 Usually gray flannels. 126 00:13:57,375 --> 00:14:01,090 Oh, these socks ought to go well with it. 127 00:14:01,125 --> 00:14:05,715 My father was an incredibly smart dresser. 128 00:14:05,750 --> 00:14:09,541 He apparently gave Cary - I should say he gave Archie - 129 00:14:09,576 --> 00:14:12,996 one piece of advice about dressing that Archie and Cary 130 00:14:13,031 --> 00:14:16,417 always remembered, which was, if you're only going to have 131 00:14:16,452 --> 00:14:19,458 one suit, make it a good suit. 132 00:14:23,834 --> 00:14:28,166 My father was a handsome tallish man with a fancy mustache. 133 00:14:28,201 --> 00:14:32,038 He earned his money pressing suits for a clothing 134 00:14:32,073 --> 00:14:35,875 manufacturer, but progressed in that firm too slowly 135 00:14:35,910 --> 00:14:40,291 to satisfy my mother's dreams. 136 00:15:07,041 --> 00:15:10,125 The relationship between my mother and father 137 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,757 seemed to grow unhappier. 138 00:15:14,792 --> 00:15:20,083 I came home from school one day, and mother was gone. 139 00:15:23,250 --> 00:15:25,000 My cousins told me that she had gone to 140 00:15:25,035 --> 00:15:27,840 a local seaside resort. 141 00:15:27,875 --> 00:15:31,792 It seemed rather unusual, but I accepted it as one of those 142 00:15:31,827 --> 00:15:35,208 unaccountable things that grownups do. 143 00:15:38,208 --> 00:15:41,548 However, the weeks went by and there was no further 144 00:15:41,583 --> 00:15:46,083 explanation of mother's absence, and it gradually dawned on me 145 00:15:46,118 --> 00:15:52,375 that perhaps she wasn't coming back at all. 146 00:15:52,410 --> 00:15:54,340 There was a void in my life, 147 00:15:54,375 --> 00:16:00,125 a sadness of spirit that affected everything I did. 148 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,625 I always felt my mother rejected me. 149 00:16:40,959 --> 00:16:42,688 In some of the very early interviews, 150 00:16:42,723 --> 00:16:45,278 when he's still Archie Leach on Broadway, 151 00:16:45,313 --> 00:16:47,834 he makes reference to his mother being dead. 152 00:16:50,333 --> 00:16:53,500 When she's gone, he moved to a more working class 153 00:16:53,535 --> 00:16:56,291 neighborhood of Bristol to live with his 154 00:16:56,326 --> 00:16:59,590 paternal grandmother. 155 00:16:59,625 --> 00:17:03,292 This is the point at which the father went to South Hampton 156 00:17:03,327 --> 00:17:07,267 to start his new family, and so he's left there on his own. 157 00:17:07,302 --> 00:17:11,984 He remembers being left to fend for himself in an unheated 158 00:17:12,019 --> 00:17:16,667 house, being hungry, so this had a terrible impact on him. 159 00:17:19,542 --> 00:17:22,542 You can imagine an 11-year-old boy not knowing 160 00:17:22,577 --> 00:17:25,507 why his mother had left, where she'd gone, 161 00:17:25,542 --> 00:17:28,208 why she hadn't said goodbye, it would be devastating. 162 00:17:28,243 --> 00:17:33,834 And so he would have trust issues with women 163 00:17:33,869 --> 00:17:37,041 for many, many years. 164 00:17:37,076 --> 00:17:39,750 Ha, ha, ha. 165 00:17:42,166 --> 00:17:45,958 His first two marriages, for example, seemed to be cases 166 00:17:45,993 --> 00:17:49,750 of him falling very much in love with Virginia Cherrill, 167 00:17:49,785 --> 00:17:52,913 and then with Barbara Hutton, but then not quite 168 00:17:52,948 --> 00:17:56,041 trusting them, not trusting them to love him 169 00:17:56,076 --> 00:17:59,583 and not trusting them not to leave him. 170 00:18:02,834 --> 00:18:05,291 Won't you say something? 171 00:18:13,875 --> 00:18:16,875 Don't you like it? 172 00:18:16,910 --> 00:18:19,006 I don't know. 173 00:18:19,041 --> 00:18:22,083 I don't know whether I like it or not. 174 00:18:39,959 --> 00:18:43,382 "I regularly haunted the Bristol wharfs. 175 00:18:43,417 --> 00:18:48,757 I sat alone for hours watching the ships come and go, 176 00:18:48,792 --> 00:18:53,792 sailing with them to far places on the tide of my imagination. 177 00:18:53,827 --> 00:18:56,291 Trying to release myself from the emotional tensions 178 00:18:56,326 --> 00:19:01,423 which disarranged my thoughts. 179 00:19:01,458 --> 00:19:05,229 Yet, coincidentally, at such a dispirited time, 180 00:19:05,264 --> 00:19:09,000 my science teacher's assistant, an electrician, 181 00:19:09,035 --> 00:19:11,340 invited me to the Bristol Hippodrome, 182 00:19:11,375 --> 00:19:14,792 in which he had installed the lighting system. " 183 00:19:16,959 --> 00:19:21,256 # 25 of the boys feeling gay and happy # 184 00:19:21,291 --> 00:19:23,583 # Some of them married and some of them not # 185 00:19:23,618 --> 00:19:25,757 # All of them merry parties # 186 00:19:25,792 --> 00:19:30,646 # Then without a warning to their dame a heavy shot... # 187 00:19:30,681 --> 00:19:34,069 "The matinee was in full swing when I arrived backstage, 188 00:19:34,104 --> 00:19:38,385 and there I suddenly found myself in a dazzling land 189 00:19:38,420 --> 00:19:42,667 of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing 190 00:19:42,702 --> 00:19:48,875 all sorts of costumes, and that's when I knew. 191 00:19:48,910 --> 00:19:51,465 They happily traveled and toured. 192 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:56,667 They were classless, cheerful, and carefree. " 193 00:20:00,792 --> 00:20:01,882 You know me, fellas, when things get tough, 194 00:20:01,917 --> 00:20:07,208 when I feel a worry coming on, you know what I do. 195 00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:10,709 There, and then the worries are over. 196 00:20:16,709 --> 00:20:21,896 The Pender Troupe was a very successful group of 197 00:20:21,931 --> 00:20:27,083 acrobats, and they used to play the Hippodrome. 198 00:20:27,118 --> 00:20:30,590 In 1918, when he was 14 years old, 199 00:20:30,625 --> 00:20:33,590 he hit the road with this acrobatic troupe. 200 00:20:33,625 --> 00:20:38,709 The boys became his brothers and the Penders were like 201 00:20:38,744 --> 00:20:41,208 parents to him. 202 00:20:43,375 --> 00:20:46,709 When Bob Pender got a job in New York for the troupe, 203 00:20:46,744 --> 00:20:50,965 they all went out there together. 204 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,000 As long as he was Archie Leach, he never came back to Bristol, 205 00:20:55,035 --> 00:20:57,500 as if there was nothing to come back for. 206 00:21:17,291 --> 00:21:20,959 "Manhattan Island, that skyline, there it was. 207 00:21:20,994 --> 00:21:23,757 I was actually there. 208 00:21:23,792 --> 00:21:27,542 Off we scurried to present ourselves at the Hippodrome 209 00:21:27,577 --> 00:21:29,298 on 6th Avenue. 210 00:21:29,333 --> 00:21:33,625 It contained a revolving stage a city block wide, on which 211 00:21:33,660 --> 00:21:37,917 appeared the most renowned and spectacular acts of the day. " 212 00:21:55,834 --> 00:21:59,757 After they had been there for two years, Bob Pender 213 00:21:59,792 --> 00:22:05,834 decided to go back to England, and Archie didn't want to go. 214 00:22:05,869 --> 00:22:08,726 There's incredible courage in him. 215 00:22:08,761 --> 00:22:12,547 There's incredible ambition in him. 216 00:22:12,582 --> 00:22:16,298 But there's also just determination. 217 00:22:16,333 --> 00:22:21,500 He was 18 years old and on his own in a new country. 218 00:22:30,542 --> 00:22:34,521 After years of struggle, he was cast in a series of Broadway 219 00:22:34,556 --> 00:22:38,111 musicals, always in the role of the dashing leading man, 220 00:22:38,146 --> 00:22:41,632 and over and over again, the reviews of the shows say, 221 00:22:41,667 --> 00:22:45,959 Archie Leach is so handsome, sometimes they say too handsome, 222 00:22:45,994 --> 00:22:48,667 but he can't sing. 223 00:22:52,709 --> 00:22:57,173 "In the late 1920s, I tried to emulate many people who 224 00:22:57,208 --> 00:23:01,333 seemed, although they too were self-educated in most cases, 225 00:23:01,368 --> 00:23:03,417 to have reached a certain strata in life 226 00:23:03,452 --> 00:23:05,542 that I didn't belong to. " 227 00:23:56,834 --> 00:23:59,375 Boy, what a great day to have good eyesight. 228 00:23:59,410 --> 00:24:00,757 You better lay off these, Goldie. 229 00:24:00,792 --> 00:24:04,250 He made a test for Paramount called "Singapore Sue" 230 00:24:04,285 --> 00:24:08,417 in 1931, in which he plays an American sailor. 231 00:24:08,452 --> 00:24:10,917 Hey, sprechen sie English? 232 00:24:10,952 --> 00:24:12,715 No? 233 00:24:12,750 --> 00:24:16,715 Well, I sprechen sie Chinese to you. 234 00:24:16,750 --> 00:24:19,917 You and me, we chop suey through the park. 235 00:24:19,952 --> 00:24:21,215 We chow mein. 236 00:24:21,250 --> 00:24:23,833 So at this point he had been on the stage for many years 237 00:24:23,868 --> 00:24:26,417 and he was used to projecting his voice and doing facial 238 00:24:26,452 --> 00:24:30,709 expressions for the back of the top circle, 239 00:24:30,744 --> 00:24:31,674 and he's doing that in the film, 240 00:24:31,709 --> 00:24:36,458 and it simply doesn't come across very well. 241 00:24:36,493 --> 00:24:37,663 Look at this. 242 00:24:37,698 --> 00:24:38,799 Okay, pal. 243 00:24:38,834 --> 00:24:41,834 Hey, you and me ought to get together... 244 00:25:11,166 --> 00:25:13,458 "After having worked steadily for more than three years, 245 00:25:13,493 --> 00:25:17,423 I decided to take a vacation. 246 00:25:17,458 --> 00:25:21,625 I set out for California, the land of clear sunshine 247 00:25:21,660 --> 00:25:23,333 and palm trees. " 248 00:25:53,458 --> 00:25:56,382 So he went to Hollywood on his own. 249 00:25:56,417 --> 00:25:59,667 And he had contacts there, and he used those contacts 250 00:25:59,702 --> 00:26:02,215 to get another screen test. 251 00:26:02,250 --> 00:26:04,924 It apparently went very well, because he not only got 252 00:26:04,959 --> 00:26:10,333 a contract with Paramount, he got a contract at $350 a week, 253 00:26:10,368 --> 00:26:13,208 which was pretty good money in 1932. 254 00:26:18,417 --> 00:26:21,750 "You see the Paramount hierarchy said I couldn't be 255 00:26:21,785 --> 00:26:25,048 Archie Leach, nobody would pay to see Archie Leach. 256 00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:29,750 I'd played a character called Cary Lockwood on Broadway, 257 00:26:29,785 --> 00:26:32,465 so I said, "Why can't I be Cary Lockwood?" 258 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:36,548 But there already was a Lockwood in the business. 259 00:26:36,583 --> 00:26:40,667 The following day, the lawyers began preparing the contract. 260 00:26:40,702 --> 00:26:43,458 From my younger man's point of view, it promised 261 00:26:43,493 --> 00:26:49,131 fame and fulfillment, stardom and serenity. 262 00:26:49,166 --> 00:26:52,854 I couldn't know then that although I would gain the fame 263 00:26:52,889 --> 00:26:56,542 of an actor, and the stardom, such as it is, I would still 264 00:26:56,577 --> 00:27:01,500 be seeking fulfillment and serenity 30 years later. " 265 00:27:02,834 --> 00:27:06,542 Honey, I wonder if you realize just how much you mean to me. 266 00:27:06,577 --> 00:27:09,125 I've never been so happy in my life. 267 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,715 You mean that? 268 00:27:10,750 --> 00:27:12,625 I guess love is a wonderful thing. 269 00:27:12,660 --> 00:27:15,465 I've heard it highly praised. 270 00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:20,840 # No one could be half as nice you # 271 00:27:20,875 --> 00:27:24,465 Paramount cast him in five or six films a year 272 00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:26,458 for the first few years, and you can see him getting better 273 00:27:26,493 --> 00:27:29,090 and better and better. 274 00:27:29,125 --> 00:27:31,458 The problem is the Paramount roles are very flat. 275 00:27:31,493 --> 00:27:32,965 He's simply good looking. 276 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,500 He's a bit of jewelry for their big leading ladies, 277 00:27:36,535 --> 00:27:40,000 for Marlene Dietrich, for Mae West, for Kay Francis, 278 00:27:40,035 --> 00:27:41,507 and others. 279 00:27:41,542 --> 00:27:43,799 Maybe I ain't got no soul. 280 00:27:43,834 --> 00:27:48,208 Oh, yes, you have, but you keep it hidden under a mask. 281 00:27:48,243 --> 00:27:50,382 You'll wake up and find it sometime. 282 00:27:50,417 --> 00:27:51,333 Haven't you ever met a man that could make you happy? 283 00:27:51,368 --> 00:27:55,291 Sure, lots of times. 284 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,298 As time went on, in addition to Malibu, 285 00:28:07,333 --> 00:28:10,750 many of the stars built big homes further down the beach. 286 00:28:10,785 --> 00:28:13,667 Sounds like Cary's having a party. 287 00:28:33,875 --> 00:28:38,583 "Surrounded by all sorts of attractive girls, 288 00:28:38,618 --> 00:28:42,267 I was never able to fully communicate with them. 289 00:28:42,302 --> 00:28:45,917 Most of the women with whom I formed attachments 290 00:28:45,952 --> 00:28:50,017 eventually made it evident that I was, 291 00:28:50,052 --> 00:28:54,048 from their point of view, impossible. 292 00:28:54,083 --> 00:28:57,917 If I'd paid more attention I might have found 293 00:28:57,952 --> 00:29:01,208 contentment in marriage. 294 00:29:05,417 --> 00:29:08,208 Looking back, it doesn't seem possible that I was married, 295 00:29:08,243 --> 00:29:12,542 and, alas, divorced three times. 296 00:29:15,250 --> 00:29:19,000 My first wife was Virginia Cherrill, the beautiful girl 297 00:29:19,035 --> 00:29:21,792 who made such an impression as the blind heroine 298 00:29:21,827 --> 00:29:25,083 in Charlie Chaplain's "City Lights. " 299 00:29:39,125 --> 00:29:41,340 Cary Grant and Virginia Cherrill went to Bristol 300 00:29:41,375 --> 00:29:44,417 in autumn of 1933 for Cary Grant to show Virginia Cherrill 301 00:29:44,452 --> 00:29:46,965 where he had grown up. 302 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,959 I don't think that he had been back to Bristol, 303 00:29:48,994 --> 00:29:52,309 or even to England, throughout the 1920s, 304 00:29:52,344 --> 00:29:55,625 and he arrives very much as the film star. 305 00:29:55,660 --> 00:29:57,715 They were in limousines. 306 00:29:57,750 --> 00:30:01,437 They were dressed to the nines, and they drive up to 307 00:30:01,472 --> 00:30:05,125 the father's house and make a huge show of themselves 308 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,548 and their wealth and success. 309 00:30:06,583 --> 00:30:11,792 And clearly, he wanted to do that, and needed to do that. 310 00:30:29,750 --> 00:30:33,875 "I doubt if either of us was capable of relaxing sufficiently 311 00:30:33,910 --> 00:30:36,125 to trust the happiness we might have had. 312 00:30:39,333 --> 00:30:43,166 My possessiveness and fear of losing her brought about 313 00:30:43,201 --> 00:30:48,041 the very condition it feared, the loss of her. " 314 00:31:03,792 --> 00:31:04,917 What's the matter with you, Bones, 315 00:31:04,952 --> 00:31:06,250 don't you think it's fine? 316 00:31:06,285 --> 00:31:07,590 What? 317 00:31:07,625 --> 00:31:09,687 Why, to be in an orchard with the singing and the laughing 318 00:31:09,722 --> 00:31:11,750 and the dancing and the wine and the smell of the wet grass, 319 00:31:11,785 --> 00:31:14,792 and all in the moonlight. 320 00:31:17,333 --> 00:31:20,937 It's not until 1935, when he's on a loan out to RKO, 321 00:31:20,972 --> 00:31:24,542 that he plays in a film called "Sylvia Scarlet," 322 00:31:24,577 --> 00:31:28,768 where George Cukor, a very fine director, 323 00:31:28,803 --> 00:31:32,924 saw, in Cary Grant, something of the cockney. 324 00:31:32,959 --> 00:31:34,709 He got wise to his little game, passed the information 325 00:31:34,744 --> 00:31:36,674 on to a customs officer. 326 00:31:36,709 --> 00:31:39,048 Oh, recognizing you as a man of public spirit, 327 00:31:39,083 --> 00:31:41,041 chocks his moniker on your baggage, and there you are, 328 00:31:41,076 --> 00:31:43,250 soon it'll be in cargo duty free. 329 00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:51,215 The old sparklers. 330 00:31:51,250 --> 00:31:54,291 It's not the glamorous Cary Grant, but, nevertheless, 331 00:31:54,326 --> 00:31:56,840 he demonstrated he could act on screen, 332 00:31:56,875 --> 00:32:00,542 and from that point onward, his career really takes off. 333 00:32:02,417 --> 00:32:07,375 "Because he didn't know who the character was, George Cukor 334 00:32:07,410 --> 00:32:11,309 let me play it the way I thought it should be played. 335 00:32:11,344 --> 00:32:15,208 In a manner of speaking, that was my breakthrough. 336 00:32:15,243 --> 00:32:17,500 It permitted me to play a character I know. " 337 00:32:17,535 --> 00:32:19,382 What? 338 00:32:19,417 --> 00:32:20,125 Oh, there's plenty of room for both of us here. 339 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:21,250 Come on, get your pajamas. 340 00:32:21,285 --> 00:32:22,500 Let's get curled up. 341 00:32:22,535 --> 00:32:24,757 But, uh - 342 00:32:24,792 --> 00:32:26,715 But - but - but what? 343 00:32:26,750 --> 00:32:30,250 But I'm afraid I'll snore. 344 00:32:30,285 --> 00:32:31,382 I'll cure you of that. 345 00:32:31,417 --> 00:32:32,709 I'll give you a clump on the head every time I hear you. 346 00:32:32,744 --> 00:32:35,590 Yeah, but I kick too. 347 00:32:35,625 --> 00:32:37,125 Oh, never mind about that... 348 00:32:48,083 --> 00:32:51,125 "My father died in 1935 of what was medically recorded 349 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:56,542 as extreme toxicity, liver disease. 350 00:33:01,041 --> 00:33:02,917 My own life at the time of his death 351 00:33:02,952 --> 00:33:07,382 was following a similar pattern. 352 00:33:07,417 --> 00:33:11,458 My first wife, Virginia Cherrill, was divorcing me. 353 00:33:24,792 --> 00:33:27,562 LSD made me realize I was killing my mother 354 00:33:27,597 --> 00:33:30,298 through my relationships with other women. 355 00:33:30,333 --> 00:33:35,625 I was punishing them for what she had done to me. 356 00:33:39,709 --> 00:33:41,667 I was making the mistake of thinking that 357 00:33:41,702 --> 00:33:44,417 each of my wives was my mother. 358 00:33:50,667 --> 00:33:55,062 Once you realize that you have all things inside you, 359 00:33:55,097 --> 00:34:00,465 love and hate alike, and you learn to accept them, 360 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:05,834 then you can use your love to exhaust your hate. 361 00:34:05,869 --> 00:34:08,882 That power is inside you, 362 00:34:08,917 --> 00:34:12,465 but it can be assimilated into your power to love. 363 00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:15,875 That moment when your conscious meets your subconscious 364 00:34:15,910 --> 00:34:18,382 is a hell of a wrench. 365 00:34:18,417 --> 00:34:22,166 You feel the whole top of your head lifting off. " 366 00:34:55,125 --> 00:34:58,465 It seems likely that his father never told him 367 00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:01,458 where his mother was, that his father couldn't admit 368 00:35:01,493 --> 00:35:04,417 after all those years that his mother was still alive. 369 00:35:15,458 --> 00:35:21,125 So this is the admissions book from the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, 370 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:22,924 as it was called then. 371 00:35:22,959 --> 00:35:26,709 And we have it open to the page where Archie Leach's mother, 372 00:35:26,744 --> 00:35:28,757 Elsie, is being committed. 373 00:35:28,792 --> 00:35:30,792 This is the day that she was committed, 374 00:35:30,827 --> 00:35:33,840 February the 3rd, 1915. 375 00:35:33,875 --> 00:35:38,417 And it has her diagnosis here, that she has a form of insanity 376 00:35:38,452 --> 00:35:42,959 called mania, and below that is "facts communicated by others," 377 00:35:42,994 --> 00:35:44,882 come from her husband. 378 00:35:44,917 --> 00:35:49,854 She's being committed on his testimony alone it seems. 379 00:35:49,889 --> 00:35:54,340 So Elias Leach is saying his wife, Elsie, has been queer 380 00:35:54,375 --> 00:35:58,250 in her head for some months and thinks that several women 381 00:35:58,285 --> 00:36:02,125 are concealed in the house and they put poison in her food. 382 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,267 She hears voices through the wall 383 00:36:05,302 --> 00:36:08,340 and thinks she's being watched. 384 00:36:08,375 --> 00:36:11,173 It says she's not a danger to others, 385 00:36:11,208 --> 00:36:14,166 and it says that she's not a danger to herself, 386 00:36:14,201 --> 00:36:17,215 and yet she's being put into the asylum, 387 00:36:17,250 --> 00:36:22,250 and we know that she's going to stay there for 20 years. 388 00:36:22,285 --> 00:36:27,309 When I first came upon the book, I was simply struck by 389 00:36:27,344 --> 00:36:31,901 how little was involved in having someone committed; 390 00:36:31,936 --> 00:36:36,458 that someone could go into the asylum on the testimony 391 00:36:36,493 --> 00:36:38,423 of their husband alone. 392 00:36:38,458 --> 00:36:43,048 And there's also something slightly disturbing in that 393 00:36:43,083 --> 00:36:47,917 we know that the husband had left Bristol shortly after this 394 00:36:47,952 --> 00:36:49,166 and went to South Hampton to live with another woman, 395 00:36:49,201 --> 00:36:52,375 and had a child with another woman. 396 00:36:56,625 --> 00:36:59,625 He would have been 11 years old when he last saw his mother. 397 00:36:59,660 --> 00:37:06,375 When he saw her again, he was 30 years old, maybe 31. 398 00:37:11,041 --> 00:37:13,006 There was no indication that she had ever heard 399 00:37:13,041 --> 00:37:17,875 of Cary Grant, because the way the meeting has been described, 400 00:37:17,910 --> 00:37:22,083 he had to convince her who he was, and she said to him, 401 00:37:22,118 --> 00:37:26,458 "Archie, is that really you?" 402 00:37:28,333 --> 00:37:30,548 He arranged for her to come out of the hospital, 403 00:37:30,583 --> 00:37:34,500 and he set up a fund for her, administered by lawyers 404 00:37:34,535 --> 00:37:38,417 in London, so that she would always be taken care of. 405 00:37:38,452 --> 00:37:41,417 And he came to see her as often as he could. 406 00:37:44,250 --> 00:37:47,500 # Oh, we're going to Wall Street to see Old Man Topper # 407 00:37:47,535 --> 00:37:49,215 # Ironbound Topper # 408 00:37:49,250 --> 00:37:52,298 # That moss-covered Topper # 409 00:37:52,333 --> 00:37:54,875 # I promise to be at this bank at the annual meeting # 410 00:37:54,910 --> 00:37:57,417 # Of the board of directors at 10:30 in the morning # 411 00:37:57,452 --> 00:37:58,767 Too many words, honey. 412 00:37:58,802 --> 00:38:00,048 That's what I thought. 413 00:38:00,083 --> 00:38:02,645 No, no, no, that's another vaudeville actor 414 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,208 who went into motion pictures, Cary Grant. 415 00:38:07,583 --> 00:38:09,291 Come on, the music's swell. 416 00:38:09,326 --> 00:38:10,173 What? 417 00:38:10,208 --> 00:38:12,298 I said the music's swell! 418 00:38:12,333 --> 00:38:15,125 Can't hear you, they're playing music. 419 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:16,625 That's what I said. 420 00:38:19,458 --> 00:38:23,354 By the end of 1936, he's made over two dozen films, 421 00:38:23,389 --> 00:38:27,250 and his career takes off because he leaves Paramount. 422 00:38:27,285 --> 00:38:29,250 Weather clear, track fast. 423 00:38:30,917 --> 00:38:32,840 I made it. 424 00:38:32,875 --> 00:38:35,166 So he becomes an independent, 425 00:38:35,201 --> 00:38:37,423 which is very rare at the time. 426 00:38:37,458 --> 00:38:40,291 And by making those sorts of individual deals, 427 00:38:40,326 --> 00:38:42,709 he's able to choose his roles. 428 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:46,674 Come on. 429 00:38:46,709 --> 00:38:47,625 Come on, boy, up. 430 00:38:47,660 --> 00:38:48,632 That a boy. 431 00:38:48,667 --> 00:38:49,757 So where's momma? 432 00:38:49,792 --> 00:38:51,882 And because he's very successful at that, 433 00:38:51,917 --> 00:38:54,709 the first two films are his biggest successes, 434 00:38:54,744 --> 00:38:57,643 "Topper" and "The Awful Truth" in 1937. 435 00:38:57,678 --> 00:39:00,542 Nothing's going to hurt me anymore. 436 00:39:04,834 --> 00:39:05,333 Take it. 437 00:39:09,375 --> 00:39:11,083 You wouldn't mind if I looked around? 438 00:39:12,792 --> 00:39:15,709 You know, your husband is not like the average American man. 439 00:39:15,744 --> 00:39:18,423 He has more the continental mind, yes? 440 00:39:18,458 --> 00:39:20,667 Yeah, that's right, I have a continental mind, 441 00:39:20,702 --> 00:39:21,834 where you have an eggnog. 442 00:39:21,869 --> 00:39:23,048 Oh, thank you. 443 00:39:23,083 --> 00:39:27,041 What was different about "The Awful Truth," for him, 444 00:39:27,076 --> 00:39:30,965 was that Leo McCarey, a great comic director, shaped his 445 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:36,458 screen persona, told him how to hold himself, helped him develop 446 00:39:36,493 --> 00:39:40,458 his comic timing, but also gave him a kind of role model, 447 00:39:40,493 --> 00:39:43,500 because Leo McCarey was himself a very handsome, 448 00:39:43,535 --> 00:39:45,792 dashing, ladies' man. 449 00:39:48,667 --> 00:39:50,340 My, isn't this cozy? 450 00:39:50,375 --> 00:39:53,208 It was a screen persona that gave him a starting point 451 00:39:53,243 --> 00:39:57,041 as to how to play a carefree, debonair, urbane, 452 00:39:57,076 --> 00:39:59,750 modern gentleman. 453 00:40:04,208 --> 00:40:08,875 Gentlemen in movies before this tended to be upper class. 454 00:40:08,910 --> 00:40:09,875 They were stuffy. 455 00:40:13,709 --> 00:40:18,875 Cary Grant's screen persona is very democratic, 456 00:40:18,910 --> 00:40:24,041 in the sense that you can still hear and see 457 00:40:24,076 --> 00:40:26,959 some of working-class Archie in him. 458 00:40:32,834 --> 00:40:35,208 Something anyone can aspire to. 459 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,500 Air-conditioned. 460 00:40:44,166 --> 00:40:45,298 Oh, I - 461 00:40:45,333 --> 00:40:47,354 Oh, so sorry! 462 00:40:47,389 --> 00:40:49,340 Oh, hello. 463 00:40:49,375 --> 00:40:51,041 You're sitting on your hat. 464 00:40:51,076 --> 00:40:52,038 You lied to me. 465 00:40:52,073 --> 00:40:52,965 No. Well, I did. 466 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,590 Tell me a ridiculous story about a leopard. 467 00:40:54,625 --> 00:40:56,083 I didn't tell you a ridiculous story, I have a leopard. 468 00:40:56,118 --> 00:40:56,792 Well where is the leopard? 469 00:40:56,827 --> 00:40:57,840 It's right in there. 470 00:40:57,875 --> 00:40:58,958 I don't believe you, Susan. 471 00:40:58,993 --> 00:41:00,006 But you have to believe me. 472 00:41:00,041 --> 00:41:01,792 I've been a victim of your unbridled imagination once more! 473 00:41:03,458 --> 00:41:03,750 Ah! 474 00:41:06,291 --> 00:41:08,875 Susan, we settled that question once and for all. 475 00:41:08,910 --> 00:41:11,455 But what about my leopard? 476 00:41:11,490 --> 00:41:13,703 Hmm, that's your problem. 477 00:41:13,738 --> 00:41:15,917 It's not all my problem. 478 00:41:16,959 --> 00:41:19,256 Whoa. 479 00:41:19,291 --> 00:41:21,340 Susan, Susan? 480 00:41:21,375 --> 00:41:23,458 Susan, don't go away, I've got the leopard. 481 00:41:27,458 --> 00:41:30,625 Something happens, I think, in the late '30s 482 00:41:30,660 --> 00:41:34,455 and Cukor is a part of it, Leo McCarey, 483 00:41:34,490 --> 00:41:38,215 but I think Hawks is the key figure. 484 00:41:38,250 --> 00:41:44,208 He senses some kind of fascinating insecurity in Grant 485 00:41:44,243 --> 00:41:50,166 that can carry him beyond the sort of genre conventions 486 00:41:50,201 --> 00:41:53,834 of attractive male acting. 487 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:04,500 It's almost as if Hawks, particularly, says to himself, 488 00:42:04,535 --> 00:42:07,298 this is a very strange guy. 489 00:42:07,333 --> 00:42:11,291 This is not a straightforward American, 490 00:42:11,326 --> 00:42:14,458 but Grant is never American. 491 00:42:14,493 --> 00:42:16,507 He's not English. 492 00:42:16,542 --> 00:42:21,465 He's something else in between, and it's as if he 493 00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:27,000 and a few filmmakers saw this and felt a confidence about it 494 00:42:27,035 --> 00:42:29,500 and says we can go with this. 495 00:42:29,535 --> 00:42:31,507 Who are you? 496 00:42:31,542 --> 00:42:32,500 Well who are you? 497 00:42:32,535 --> 00:42:33,788 What do you want? 498 00:42:33,823 --> 00:42:34,911 Well who are you? 499 00:42:34,946 --> 00:42:35,965 I don't know. 500 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,548 I'm not quite myself today. 501 00:42:37,583 --> 00:42:40,375 Well you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes. 502 00:42:40,410 --> 00:42:42,215 These aren't my clothes. 503 00:42:42,250 --> 00:42:45,000 Well, why are you wearing these clothes? 504 00:42:45,035 --> 00:42:47,715 Because I just went gay all of a sudden. 505 00:42:47,750 --> 00:42:51,875 It just develops, I think, over the years, 506 00:42:51,910 --> 00:42:53,340 and over the many films. 507 00:42:53,375 --> 00:42:56,965 And, of course, by now, it's what lies beneath 508 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,875 the inescapable but still very unproven and uncertain sense 509 00:43:01,910 --> 00:43:06,600 of his own sexuality, because this is clearly a man 510 00:43:06,635 --> 00:43:11,291 who appealed to men and women equally on screen. 511 00:43:11,326 --> 00:43:12,083 My intercostal clavicle. 512 00:43:12,118 --> 00:43:13,757 Your what? 513 00:43:13,792 --> 00:43:15,333 My bone, it's rare, it's precious! 514 00:43:15,368 --> 00:43:16,166 What did you do with it? 515 00:43:16,201 --> 00:43:18,382 The bone? 516 00:43:18,417 --> 00:43:19,604 Where did you hide the bone? 517 00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:21,153 No David, no, not that way, no. 518 00:43:21,188 --> 00:43:22,802 Now, George, we're not angry, no. 519 00:43:22,837 --> 00:43:24,417 David and Susan need that bone. 520 00:43:24,452 --> 00:43:26,465 It's a nasty old bone. 521 00:43:26,500 --> 00:43:28,166 It's hundreds of years old. 522 00:43:28,201 --> 00:43:29,256 That's David's bone. 523 00:43:29,291 --> 00:43:33,882 I don't know the answer to Grant's own life, 524 00:43:33,917 --> 00:43:36,965 but to look back on it now, there's no question that 525 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:43,750 this is a man who is exploring a breakdown of gender safeguards. 526 00:43:43,785 --> 00:43:44,333 You know, he's somewhere else. 527 00:43:44,368 --> 00:43:46,959 He's placeless. 528 00:43:48,291 --> 00:43:52,625 It's just like his social status, his nationality status, 529 00:43:52,660 --> 00:43:55,840 you can't pin him down. 530 00:43:55,875 --> 00:44:00,458 I think he felt he was there alone on the edge, 531 00:44:00,493 --> 00:44:02,757 struggling to survive. 532 00:44:02,792 --> 00:44:05,125 Now, of course, by the end, long before the end, 533 00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,476 people looked at Cary Grant as the epitome 534 00:44:08,511 --> 00:44:11,792 of accomplished, sophisticated survival. 535 00:44:11,827 --> 00:44:13,674 I'm not sure he felt it though. 536 00:44:13,709 --> 00:44:16,375 Would you like to go over to my room? 537 00:44:16,410 --> 00:44:18,267 I've got some memories from home, 538 00:44:18,302 --> 00:44:20,090 pictures of my father and mother. 539 00:44:20,125 --> 00:44:22,792 Pictures of me the first time I went up in the air. 540 00:44:22,827 --> 00:44:25,006 Pictures of my first crash. 541 00:44:25,041 --> 00:44:28,375 Any pictures of you when you were a baby? 542 00:44:28,410 --> 00:44:30,542 I don't remember. 543 00:44:38,959 --> 00:44:42,542 "My darling son, I was delighted to receive 544 00:44:42,577 --> 00:44:44,548 your cablegram this morning. 545 00:44:44,583 --> 00:44:47,646 Very early, I read in the newspaper a suggestion, 546 00:44:47,681 --> 00:44:50,709 you were thinking of changing your nationality. 547 00:44:50,744 --> 00:44:53,417 I hope and trust you'll do what's right 548 00:44:53,452 --> 00:44:55,632 in the sight of God. 549 00:44:55,667 --> 00:44:57,924 I have always trusted in him. 550 00:44:57,959 --> 00:45:01,708 I do, my darling, so wish you were nearer. 551 00:45:01,743 --> 00:45:05,371 I could see you more often and do for you. 552 00:45:05,406 --> 00:45:09,000 I felt ever so confused, after so many years 553 00:45:09,035 --> 00:45:10,965 you've grown such a man. 554 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:15,750 I'm more than delighted you've done so well. 555 00:45:15,785 --> 00:45:20,500 I trust in God you will keep well and strong. 556 00:45:20,535 --> 00:45:22,976 Hoping to hear from you again soon, 557 00:45:23,011 --> 00:45:25,382 I remain your affectionate mother. 558 00:45:25,417 --> 00:45:29,500 Fondest love, wishing you all the best. " 559 00:45:39,458 --> 00:45:43,062 In the first letter she wrote to him, the envelope 560 00:45:43,097 --> 00:45:47,340 was addressed to Mr. A. Leach, Cary Grant, actor, 561 00:45:47,375 --> 00:45:52,437 Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California, USA. 562 00:45:52,472 --> 00:45:58,194 And that's as much as she knows about where he is. 563 00:45:58,229 --> 00:46:02,406 And when he writes back to her, he signs it "Archie. " 564 00:46:02,441 --> 00:46:06,583 When he's with his mother, he's always back to being 565 00:46:06,618 --> 00:46:08,434 Archie Leach from Bristol. 566 00:46:08,469 --> 00:46:10,250 He's not Cary Grant anymore. 567 00:46:14,291 --> 00:46:16,854 Now it's said that she never wanted to leave Bristol, 568 00:46:16,889 --> 00:46:19,417 and that's why she didn't come out and live with him 569 00:46:19,452 --> 00:46:20,590 in Hollywood. 570 00:46:20,625 --> 00:46:25,709 But there's a sense in which he kept her at a distance. 571 00:46:27,500 --> 00:46:31,625 I'd be very surprised if he wanted the last person on earth 572 00:46:31,660 --> 00:46:32,750 who called him Archie Leach to come live with him 573 00:46:32,785 --> 00:46:34,750 in Hollywood, where he was, you know, 574 00:46:34,785 --> 00:46:37,291 the most glamorous man in town. 575 00:47:25,542 --> 00:47:28,792 See your tickets, please. 576 00:47:34,375 --> 00:47:36,166 Thank you, Miss. 577 00:47:38,166 --> 00:47:39,749 I'm afraid you're in the wrong compartment, sir. 578 00:47:39,784 --> 00:47:41,333 This is a first class compartment, isn't it? 579 00:47:41,368 --> 00:47:42,882 Yes, sir. 580 00:47:42,917 --> 00:47:43,715 Well, then I'm all right. 581 00:47:43,750 --> 00:47:46,125 This is a third class ticket, sir. 582 00:47:47,875 --> 00:47:50,937 Hitchcock clearly sees something very different 583 00:47:50,972 --> 00:47:54,000 in Cary Grant, and something much darker than 584 00:47:54,035 --> 00:47:56,382 the other directors have seen. 585 00:47:56,417 --> 00:48:00,125 Now Hitchcock was, himself, a working-class cockney 586 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,131 who went to Hollywood and remade himself. 587 00:48:04,166 --> 00:48:07,709 So I think he recognized the Archie Leach in Cary Grant 588 00:48:07,744 --> 00:48:08,333 more than anyone else. 589 00:48:13,125 --> 00:48:16,645 "Suspicion" begins, seemingly, as a delightful comedy 590 00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:20,166 about two glamorous people, Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. 591 00:48:20,201 --> 00:48:22,542 Slowly, you begin to realize there's something else 592 00:48:22,577 --> 00:48:26,250 at work here, and he just might be trying to 593 00:48:26,285 --> 00:48:28,507 poison her for her money. 594 00:48:28,542 --> 00:48:31,250 If you're going to kill somebody, do it simply. 595 00:48:31,285 --> 00:48:33,208 Am I right, Dr. Sedbusk? 596 00:48:33,243 --> 00:48:33,924 You're right. 597 00:48:33,959 --> 00:48:35,709 How would you do it simply? 598 00:48:35,744 --> 00:48:37,507 Oh, I don't know, dear. 599 00:48:37,542 --> 00:48:40,173 But I'd use the most obvious method. 600 00:48:40,208 --> 00:48:42,875 The most important thing is that no one should suspect me. 601 00:48:42,910 --> 00:48:44,542 For instance? 602 00:48:44,577 --> 00:48:46,413 Arsenic. 603 00:48:46,448 --> 00:48:48,215 Ah, arsenic. 604 00:48:48,250 --> 00:48:52,166 I remember, in Gloucester, where we exhumed a body 605 00:48:52,201 --> 00:48:56,083 four years after, there was still enough poison 606 00:48:56,118 --> 00:48:59,204 even in the fingernails and the hair. 607 00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:02,291 Yes, but did you get the murderer? 608 00:49:09,250 --> 00:49:14,208 "You play yourself as much as you can within a role, 609 00:49:14,243 --> 00:49:17,215 if you can ever find yourself. 610 00:49:17,250 --> 00:49:20,090 It takes a heck of a long time to do that. 611 00:49:20,125 --> 00:49:23,166 I think it's very difficult to be one's self anywhere; 612 00:49:23,201 --> 00:49:26,542 whereas, it's nice and better when you relax 613 00:49:26,577 --> 00:49:29,507 and just are yourself. 614 00:49:29,542 --> 00:49:31,507 I think that's the most attractive thing a person can 615 00:49:31,542 --> 00:49:36,458 be, a person who lives without artificiality of any kind. " 616 00:49:40,291 --> 00:49:43,500 Johnny, I'm in a state tonight, I don't know why. 617 00:49:43,535 --> 00:49:45,382 I'd like to be alone. 618 00:49:45,417 --> 00:49:47,208 Would you mind sleeping in your dressing room? 619 00:49:51,458 --> 00:49:55,006 Of course I'd mind. 620 00:49:55,041 --> 00:49:59,458 Please, Johnny, I haven't been sleeping very well lately. 621 00:49:59,493 --> 00:50:01,674 I understand. 622 00:50:01,709 --> 00:50:05,125 The Grant who will appear in "Suspicion," "Notorious," 623 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,173 and later on in "North by Northwest," 624 00:50:08,208 --> 00:50:12,521 is, I think, an extension of the Grant that Hawks and Grant 625 00:50:12,556 --> 00:50:16,834 together found, because I don't think that this was just 626 00:50:16,869 --> 00:50:19,834 Grant being told what to do. 627 00:50:26,291 --> 00:50:30,548 I think this was an amazingly intelligent actor, 628 00:50:30,583 --> 00:50:35,500 and a desperately insecure man who had to find a self, 629 00:50:35,535 --> 00:50:37,959 finding that self. 630 00:50:37,994 --> 00:50:40,924 Feel better? 631 00:50:40,959 --> 00:50:44,423 What do you care how I feel? 632 00:50:44,458 --> 00:50:49,646 In "Notorious," he's a character who is incredibly 633 00:50:49,681 --> 00:50:54,799 suspicious, jealous, and resentful of the woman 634 00:50:54,834 --> 00:50:58,548 he's in love with, and he will allow her to go through 635 00:50:58,583 --> 00:51:05,542 any kind of danger and hardship, ostensibly for her job as a spy. 636 00:51:05,577 --> 00:51:07,684 Do you want me to take the job? 637 00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:09,792 You're answering for yourself. 638 00:51:09,827 --> 00:51:11,517 I'm asking you. 639 00:51:11,552 --> 00:51:13,173 It's up to you. 640 00:51:13,208 --> 00:51:16,562 It seems to be exploring the idea that he is just 641 00:51:16,597 --> 00:51:19,381 very emotionally damaged, unreachable almost. 642 00:51:19,416 --> 00:51:22,166 That you believe I'm nice and that I love you 643 00:51:22,201 --> 00:51:25,267 and I'll never change back. 644 00:51:25,302 --> 00:51:28,298 I'm waiting for your answer. 645 00:51:28,333 --> 00:51:30,715 And you never quite know where you were. 646 00:51:30,750 --> 00:51:35,417 You never know how far this quality of danger 647 00:51:35,452 --> 00:51:37,799 is going to come out. 648 00:51:37,834 --> 00:51:40,937 It doesn't ruin the likability, 649 00:51:40,972 --> 00:51:44,006 but it qualifies it all the time. 650 00:51:44,041 --> 00:51:48,875 It's very hard to think of another actor of that time 651 00:51:48,910 --> 00:51:54,163 in an American film playing a male lead who would come on 652 00:51:54,198 --> 00:51:59,417 as tough and cold, and I think he grasped it effortlessly. 653 00:52:01,417 --> 00:52:02,423 Joe! 654 00:52:02,458 --> 00:52:05,291 Joe, take me with you, please, darling! 655 00:52:05,326 --> 00:52:07,048 I love you! 656 00:52:07,083 --> 00:52:10,131 Please take me with you! 657 00:52:10,166 --> 00:52:12,382 You don't belong with a grifter like me. 658 00:52:12,417 --> 00:52:14,792 You just got some mud on your dress, that's all. 659 00:52:14,827 --> 00:52:17,142 Give it time. 660 00:52:17,177 --> 00:52:19,423 Let it dry. 661 00:52:19,458 --> 00:52:21,375 It'll brush off. 662 00:52:21,410 --> 00:52:22,632 Oh, no Joe! 663 00:52:22,667 --> 00:52:24,298 Joe, I love you! 664 00:52:24,333 --> 00:52:25,792 Please take me with you! 665 00:52:25,827 --> 00:52:29,674 Joe - please, Joe! 666 00:52:29,709 --> 00:52:37,500 # I was meant for you - for you - for you - # 667 00:52:40,500 --> 00:52:43,667 And then you notice this film, "Penny Serenade," 668 00:52:43,702 --> 00:52:46,799 which is not as well known as I think it should be, 669 00:52:46,834 --> 00:52:51,000 a film George Stevens directed, where he's with Irene Dunne. 670 00:52:51,035 --> 00:52:55,131 He plays a man who is a failure. 671 00:52:55,166 --> 00:52:57,792 He can't support the child he's adopted, 672 00:52:57,827 --> 00:52:59,965 so he risks losing the child. 673 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,000 And yet, he's desperate with love for both the wife 674 00:53:03,035 --> 00:53:06,256 and particularly the child. 675 00:53:06,291 --> 00:53:12,006 What a grip... for a girl, I mean. 676 00:53:12,041 --> 00:53:15,500 There's a scene where he goes to the adoption agency 677 00:53:15,535 --> 00:53:19,792 and really pleads for them to continue custody 678 00:53:19,827 --> 00:53:22,465 of this child they've adopted. 679 00:53:22,500 --> 00:53:24,757 Children never meant a great deal to me. 680 00:53:24,792 --> 00:53:28,709 Oh, I liked them all right, I suppose, but what I'm trying 681 00:53:28,744 --> 00:53:34,709 to say is, Your Honor, the first time I saw her 682 00:53:34,744 --> 00:53:37,809 she looked so little and helpless. 683 00:53:37,844 --> 00:53:40,672 I didn't know babies were so little. 684 00:53:40,707 --> 00:53:43,465 It's anguished, it's agonized. 685 00:53:43,500 --> 00:53:46,208 It certainly revealed something about what Grant 686 00:53:46,243 --> 00:53:49,048 must have felt about wanting a child, 687 00:53:49,083 --> 00:53:51,645 because it's really an amazing scene in a way. 688 00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,208 But the vulnerability that suddenly spills out, 689 00:53:54,243 --> 00:53:55,173 that's what I'm saying. 690 00:53:55,208 --> 00:53:59,083 He did not often seem vulnerable in films. 691 00:53:59,118 --> 00:54:02,382 I'll beg, I'll borrow, I'll - 692 00:54:02,417 --> 00:54:05,709 Please, judge, I'll sell anything I've got 693 00:54:05,744 --> 00:54:07,392 until I get going again. 694 00:54:07,427 --> 00:54:09,006 She'll never go hungry. 695 00:54:09,041 --> 00:54:10,625 She'll never be without clothes, not as long as I've got 696 00:54:10,660 --> 00:54:12,875 two good hands to help me. 697 00:54:18,834 --> 00:54:24,521 # We stroll away together # 698 00:54:24,556 --> 00:54:30,819 # Left in the rain together # 699 00:54:30,854 --> 00:54:37,302 # Sang love's refrain together # 700 00:54:37,337 --> 00:54:43,750 # We'll always be together # 701 00:55:40,166 --> 00:55:43,083 "My darling son, I hope you're not experiencing 702 00:55:43,118 --> 00:55:44,590 the blitz like here. 703 00:55:44,625 --> 00:55:49,000 We've not had the alert for a couple of weeks. 704 00:55:49,035 --> 00:55:52,632 This is the third war I've seen. 705 00:55:52,667 --> 00:55:58,256 I'm still living much alone with my little doggie. 706 00:55:58,291 --> 00:56:00,250 Darling, if you don't come over as soon as the war ends, 707 00:56:00,285 --> 00:56:03,542 I shall come over to you. " 708 00:56:06,750 --> 00:56:10,590 When America did enter the war in late 1941, 709 00:56:10,625 --> 00:56:13,917 he took American citizenship, and also had his name 710 00:56:13,952 --> 00:56:16,674 legally changed to Cary Grant. 711 00:56:16,709 --> 00:56:22,583 So World War II made him Cary Grant, American citizen. 712 00:57:06,166 --> 00:57:08,728 In 1942, he married the Woolworths heiress, 713 00:57:08,763 --> 00:57:11,291 Barbara Hutton, who was the richest woman 714 00:57:11,326 --> 00:57:14,291 in the United States. 715 00:57:18,667 --> 00:57:21,604 She could not stand living in Hollywood, 716 00:57:21,639 --> 00:57:25,944 and couldn't stand the people in Hollywood. 717 00:57:25,979 --> 00:57:30,215 She said, "All they ever talk about is movies. " 718 00:57:30,250 --> 00:57:33,750 In the two years that they were married, he made five films, 719 00:57:33,785 --> 00:57:37,590 and she complained that when he came home, he wanted 720 00:57:37,625 --> 00:57:41,625 to have dinner in bed and read over his script for the next 721 00:57:41,660 --> 00:57:45,625 day, where she had her socialite friends and wanted cocktails 722 00:57:45,660 --> 00:57:49,750 and repartee, and he wasn't interested in that. 723 00:57:49,785 --> 00:57:52,006 He was a very lone figure. 724 00:57:52,041 --> 00:57:57,583 He didn't like crowds and he wasn't a great partygoer. 725 00:58:06,709 --> 00:58:11,334 "The first breakthrough came when I realized I was the one 726 00:58:11,369 --> 00:58:15,455 responsible for repeating the same mistakes and patterns. 727 00:58:15,490 --> 00:58:19,542 One day, when I was twisting myself all over the sofa 728 00:58:19,577 --> 00:58:23,041 in the doctor's office, it was as if a light 729 00:58:23,076 --> 00:58:25,834 finally went on in my brain. 730 00:58:29,709 --> 00:58:32,674 I had to take command. 731 00:58:32,709 --> 00:58:35,750 I finally realized all the pain I thought my mother 732 00:58:35,785 --> 00:58:39,834 had caused me, I had caused her pain, too. 733 00:58:46,792 --> 00:58:51,006 I doubt if anyone ever understood Barbara. 734 00:58:51,041 --> 00:58:54,917 But then, I doubt if Barbara ever understood herself. 735 00:58:54,952 --> 00:58:57,375 Our marriage had little foundation 736 00:58:57,410 --> 00:58:59,799 for a promising future. 737 00:58:59,834 --> 00:59:03,333 Our backgrounds, family, educational, cultural, 738 00:59:03,368 --> 00:59:06,542 were completely unalike. 739 00:59:17,208 --> 00:59:20,166 You're a little flat there, hey. 740 00:59:20,201 --> 00:59:21,799 What's the music called? 741 00:59:21,834 --> 00:59:25,166 "None But the Lonely Heart. " 742 00:59:25,201 --> 00:59:27,496 Italian? 743 00:59:27,531 --> 00:59:29,757 No, Russian. 744 00:59:29,792 --> 00:59:32,709 "None But the Lonely Heart" was based on a book 745 00:59:32,744 --> 00:59:34,792 by Richard Llewellyn. 746 00:59:36,709 --> 00:59:41,382 It's a very bleak film, in which Cary Grant plays 747 00:59:41,417 --> 00:59:46,083 the kind of man he would have been had he stayed in Bristol. 748 00:59:46,118 --> 00:59:50,083 It's the story of a bitter unemployed cockney 749 00:59:50,118 --> 00:59:51,965 who goes home to see his mother. 750 00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,125 They have a very difficult relationship. 751 00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:56,725 They're barely on speaking terms. 752 00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,291 I mean to do my best by you, ma love. 753 01:00:02,458 --> 01:00:03,715 Happy couple, aren't we? 754 01:00:03,750 --> 01:00:07,298 A bit of proper respect is what's needed. 755 01:00:07,333 --> 01:00:11,395 I get no more from you than I got from that father of yours. 756 01:00:11,430 --> 01:00:15,840 Not exactly the kind of thing Hollywood liked to do. 757 01:00:15,875 --> 01:00:20,250 But in 1943, he insisted that RKO should buy the rights 758 01:00:20,285 --> 01:00:22,882 to this novel so that he could star in it. 759 01:00:22,917 --> 01:00:26,250 And by that time, he had enough star power in Hollywood 760 01:00:26,285 --> 01:00:28,225 that he could do that. 761 01:00:28,260 --> 01:00:30,131 Did you love my old man? 762 01:00:30,166 --> 01:00:32,542 Love's not for the poor, son. 763 01:00:32,577 --> 01:00:36,048 No time for it. 764 01:00:36,083 --> 01:00:40,125 Very strikingly, he put his own father, Elias Leach, 765 01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:43,142 he put Elias's photograph on the wall 766 01:00:43,177 --> 01:00:46,125 so that you can see his own father there. 767 01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:47,705 Morning, ma. 768 01:00:47,740 --> 01:00:49,215 Morning, son. 769 01:00:49,250 --> 01:00:52,834 As a way of saying, I think, perhaps just to himself, 770 01:00:52,869 --> 01:00:55,500 this is where I come from, this is who I am. 771 01:00:57,625 --> 01:00:59,250 What happened to you last night? 772 01:00:59,285 --> 01:01:00,840 Hit by a train, head-on collision. 773 01:01:00,875 --> 01:01:02,917 Half the wheel is still spinning in me head... 774 01:01:08,417 --> 01:01:11,256 Well I'm off, ma. 775 01:01:11,291 --> 01:01:13,083 Have a good time, boy. 776 01:01:13,118 --> 01:01:15,674 Thanks, ma. 777 01:01:15,709 --> 01:01:20,000 Hey, hey, your hat's on crooked. 778 01:01:34,250 --> 01:01:37,270 You'll have this shop for your own. 779 01:01:37,305 --> 01:01:40,291 You're all fixed up for a home. 780 01:01:40,326 --> 01:01:42,059 Why don't you look around? 781 01:01:42,094 --> 01:01:43,757 Had too many looks around. 782 01:01:43,792 --> 01:01:46,333 And what an ugly insanitary life it is. 783 01:01:46,368 --> 01:01:48,142 It needn't be. 784 01:01:48,177 --> 01:01:49,882 But it is. 785 01:01:49,917 --> 01:01:52,757 Lots of love in you, Ernie. 786 01:01:52,792 --> 01:01:57,500 Wants an object, something to lavish it on. 787 01:02:00,166 --> 01:02:02,208 Oh, sorry, after you. 788 01:02:02,243 --> 01:02:03,834 Thank you. 789 01:02:07,417 --> 01:02:10,750 How many have you? 790 01:02:10,785 --> 01:02:11,548 Hmm? 791 01:02:11,583 --> 01:02:13,048 I beg your pardon? 792 01:02:13,083 --> 01:02:15,729 These, how many have you? 793 01:02:15,764 --> 01:02:18,375 Why, none, fortunately. 794 01:02:18,410 --> 01:02:19,934 Fortunately? 795 01:02:19,969 --> 01:02:21,458 I'm not married. 796 01:02:25,041 --> 01:02:29,965 And when I first saw you, I knew that all I wanted was 797 01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:34,500 to cook little intimate dinners for you the rest of my life. 798 01:02:34,535 --> 01:02:37,882 Madison, when did you really know? 799 01:02:37,917 --> 01:02:40,417 I guess tonight, when I realized you were going away 800 01:02:40,452 --> 01:02:43,458 with old Joe and that I'd never see you again. 801 01:02:45,458 --> 01:02:49,417 He met Betsy Drake on a ship coming back from 802 01:02:49,452 --> 01:02:53,215 one of his trips to London. 803 01:02:53,250 --> 01:02:56,000 He was apparently besotted with her and pursued her 804 01:02:56,035 --> 01:02:58,750 relentlessly, and she was very reluctant because 805 01:02:58,785 --> 01:03:01,715 he was, after all, Cary Grant. 806 01:03:01,750 --> 01:03:06,333 He was older than her, but he was also a huge figure to her. 807 01:03:11,458 --> 01:03:13,882 I think she made him young again 808 01:03:13,917 --> 01:03:17,125 and brought new things into his life. 809 01:03:26,125 --> 01:03:29,090 "Betsy was good for me. 810 01:03:29,125 --> 01:03:30,583 She patiently led me toward an appreciation 811 01:03:30,618 --> 01:03:32,965 of better literature. 812 01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:36,354 Her cautious but steadily penetrative seeking 813 01:03:36,389 --> 01:03:39,674 in the labyrinths of the unconscious mind 814 01:03:39,709 --> 01:03:46,000 gradually provoked my interest, just as she no doubt intended. 815 01:03:53,083 --> 01:03:57,833 She was funny and witty, very quiet and very shy, 816 01:03:57,868 --> 01:04:02,583 and all of the sort of Cary Grant things about Cary 817 01:04:02,618 --> 01:04:05,750 were just sort of the opposite of Betsy, 818 01:04:05,785 --> 01:04:08,291 and they were wonderful together. 819 01:04:10,500 --> 01:04:14,131 Betsy was into discovering new things about 820 01:04:14,166 --> 01:04:19,062 self-improvement, self-knowledge, self-awareness. 821 01:04:19,097 --> 01:04:23,959 It was Betsy who eventually went into LSD treatment 822 01:04:23,994 --> 01:04:27,375 and therapy, then introduced Cary to that. 823 01:04:39,208 --> 01:04:44,750 "Until only a few years ago, I had a recurring nightmare. 824 01:04:44,785 --> 01:04:47,256 In the dream, I stand on the lighted stage 825 01:04:47,291 --> 01:04:52,674 of a vast theater facing a silent waiting audience. 826 01:04:52,709 --> 01:04:56,291 I'm the star, and I'm surrounded by actors, each of whom 827 01:04:56,326 --> 01:04:59,625 knows exactly what to do and what to say. 828 01:05:02,542 --> 01:05:04,208 I can't remember my lines... 829 01:05:06,375 --> 01:05:07,291 ...and I'm ashamed. " 830 01:05:18,709 --> 01:05:22,125 There was a period in the early 1950s when his films 831 01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:25,250 weren't particularly popular, and at that point 832 01:05:25,285 --> 01:05:28,382 he considered retiring. 833 01:05:28,417 --> 01:05:32,083 But, magically, Alfred Hitchcock offered him "To Catch a Thief" 834 01:05:32,118 --> 01:05:36,215 at that point, and so, he came out of retirement. 835 01:05:36,250 --> 01:05:38,854 Cary Grant, and this year's Academy Award winner, 836 01:05:38,889 --> 01:05:41,423 Grace Kelly, two exciting personalities who were made 837 01:05:41,458 --> 01:05:45,959 for each other, and now Alfred Hitchcock brings them into very 838 01:05:45,994 --> 01:05:48,959 close contact in this perfect tale of romantic intrigue 839 01:05:48,994 --> 01:05:51,083 filmed on the beautiful French Riviera. 840 01:05:53,542 --> 01:05:55,548 "Any film with Hitch was fun. 841 01:05:55,583 --> 01:05:59,771 It was a collaboration with an incredible man. 842 01:05:59,806 --> 01:06:03,924 It was like being cradled in your mother's arms. 843 01:06:03,959 --> 01:06:08,041 Hitch and I had a rapport, an understanding deeper than words. 844 01:06:08,076 --> 01:06:09,875 He was so incredibly well prepared 845 01:06:09,910 --> 01:06:12,382 and nothing ever went wrong. 846 01:06:12,417 --> 01:06:15,667 He knew the actor's business as well as his own. " 847 01:06:15,702 --> 01:06:18,048 Who did you call me? 848 01:06:18,083 --> 01:06:21,041 Ruby, John Ruby, one of the world's cleverest jewel thieves, 849 01:06:21,076 --> 01:06:22,590 known as the cat. 850 01:06:22,625 --> 01:06:24,423 I read all about you in the Paris paper. 851 01:06:24,458 --> 01:06:26,709 You may have read about somebody called the cat, but - 852 01:06:26,744 --> 01:06:27,792 I thought you said you were hungry. 853 01:06:27,827 --> 01:06:28,757 I am. 854 01:06:28,792 --> 01:06:30,542 Well the picnic basket's in the trunk. 855 01:06:34,333 --> 01:06:36,507 "Grace Kelly made it so easy. 856 01:06:36,542 --> 01:06:40,125 Once we understood the sort of characters we were supposed 857 01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:42,667 to be playing, I could say anything to her, 858 01:06:42,702 --> 01:06:45,934 and she would have the right answer. " 859 01:06:45,969 --> 01:06:49,166 Now, here comes some of the clever part. 860 01:06:49,201 --> 01:06:52,173 You're just not convincing, John. 861 01:06:52,208 --> 01:06:54,674 You're like an American character in an English movie, 862 01:06:54,709 --> 01:06:58,354 you just don't talk the way an American tourist ought to talk. 863 01:06:58,389 --> 01:07:02,000 "There are very few actresses who really listened to you. " 864 01:07:02,035 --> 01:07:04,267 Give up, John. 865 01:07:04,302 --> 01:07:06,465 Admit who you are. 866 01:07:06,500 --> 01:07:11,000 Even in this light, I can tell where your eyes are looking. 867 01:07:13,917 --> 01:07:16,708 "Most women are instinctively wiser 868 01:07:16,743 --> 01:07:19,413 and emotionally more mature than men. 869 01:07:19,448 --> 01:07:22,048 They know about our insecurities. 870 01:07:22,083 --> 01:07:26,083 Men are so busy rushing around trying to prove themselves 871 01:07:26,118 --> 01:07:27,083 that they fail to develop the interest 872 01:07:27,118 --> 01:07:31,840 and curiosity shown by women. 873 01:07:31,875 --> 01:07:35,250 Ever had a better offer in your whole life, 874 01:07:35,285 --> 01:07:37,083 one with everything? 875 01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:50,041 I know I look vaguely familiar. 876 01:07:50,076 --> 01:07:51,090 Yes. 877 01:07:51,125 --> 01:07:52,709 You feel you've seen me somewhere before. 878 01:07:52,744 --> 01:07:55,465 Uh-huh. 879 01:07:55,500 --> 01:07:57,709 Funny how I have that effect on people. 880 01:07:57,744 --> 01:07:58,834 It's something about my face. 881 01:07:58,869 --> 01:08:01,184 It's a nice face. 882 01:08:01,219 --> 01:08:03,465 You think so? 883 01:08:03,500 --> 01:08:05,625 I wouldn't say it if I didn't. 884 01:08:05,660 --> 01:08:08,083 Oh, you're that type. 885 01:08:08,118 --> 01:08:09,496 What type? 886 01:08:09,531 --> 01:08:11,057 Honest. 887 01:08:11,092 --> 01:08:12,548 Not really. 888 01:08:12,583 --> 01:08:15,417 Good, because honest women frighten me. 889 01:08:15,452 --> 01:08:15,799 Why? 890 01:08:15,834 --> 01:08:18,006 I don't know. 891 01:08:18,041 --> 01:08:19,250 Somehow they seem to put me at a disadvantage. 892 01:08:19,285 --> 01:08:22,125 Because you're not honest with them? 893 01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:23,458 Exactly. 894 01:08:26,417 --> 01:08:30,917 "North by Northwest" presents him as a very smooth, 895 01:08:30,952 --> 01:08:35,434 suave, but rather irresponsible, rather unkind person. 896 01:08:35,469 --> 01:08:39,917 And, you know, he talks in the film about having ex-wives 897 01:08:39,952 --> 01:08:42,434 and secretaries and all that kind of thing. 898 01:08:42,469 --> 01:08:44,882 You feel the man has never been attached. 899 01:08:44,917 --> 01:08:47,417 And for Hitchcock, it's a film, I think, about a reckless, 900 01:08:47,452 --> 01:08:51,625 irresponsible man who becomes attached. 901 01:08:54,750 --> 01:08:58,959 There is a real moral core to that film, and Grant, I think, 902 01:08:58,994 --> 01:09:02,288 understands it totally and does it most beautifully. 903 01:09:02,323 --> 01:09:05,583 It's about a man who has to grow up emotionally. 904 01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:58,834 "The shock of each revelation brought with it an anguish 905 01:09:58,869 --> 01:10:03,351 and sadness because of what wasn't known before, 906 01:10:03,386 --> 01:10:07,799 the wasted years of ignorance, and at the same time, 907 01:10:07,834 --> 01:10:15,125 the ecstasy of joy, being free of the shackles of ignorance. 908 01:10:19,875 --> 01:10:25,166 Now I know that I hurt every woman I loved. 909 01:10:56,875 --> 01:11:00,750 After weeks of treatment came a day when I saw the light. 910 01:11:08,667 --> 01:11:13,000 When I broke through, I felt an immeasurably beneficial 911 01:11:13,035 --> 01:11:17,715 cleansing of so many needless fears and guilts. 912 01:11:17,750 --> 01:11:22,834 I lost all the tension that I'd been crippling myself with. 913 01:11:22,869 --> 01:11:27,340 First, I thought of all those wasted years; 914 01:11:27,375 --> 01:11:36,792 second, I said, oh, my God, humanity, please come in. 915 01:11:49,625 --> 01:11:52,208 It's hard for me to imagine 916 01:11:52,243 --> 01:11:54,757 someone with his childhood. 917 01:11:54,792 --> 01:11:57,924 I mean, imagine, your mother being sent away into a mental 918 01:11:57,959 --> 01:12:01,208 institution and being told she was dead and then finding out - 919 01:12:01,243 --> 01:12:02,125 what was he, 31 years old when he found out 920 01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:04,882 that she was alive. 921 01:12:04,917 --> 01:12:09,271 I mean, the sense of being lied to and betrayed, I mean just 922 01:12:09,306 --> 01:12:14,070 all of that, and that becoming Cary Grant with no moment in 923 01:12:14,105 --> 01:12:18,834 time to deal with Archie Leach, no space and no part of 924 01:12:18,869 --> 01:12:21,959 the universe that he lived in that would give him 925 01:12:21,994 --> 01:12:24,934 the opportunity to look at that. 926 01:12:24,969 --> 01:12:27,875 Why do you keep those pictures? 927 01:12:27,910 --> 01:12:29,632 What pictures? 928 01:12:29,667 --> 01:12:32,417 Those pictures of you when you were a baby? 929 01:12:41,667 --> 01:12:46,875 Jeff, you don't have to be afraid of me anymore. 930 01:12:54,750 --> 01:12:57,799 "Now, everything's changed. 931 01:12:57,834 --> 01:13:02,000 My attitude towards women is completely different. 932 01:13:02,035 --> 01:13:05,507 I could be a good husband now. 933 01:13:05,542 --> 01:13:10,333 I learned that my dear parents couldn't know better than 934 01:13:10,368 --> 01:13:15,125 they knew, and I shall think of them always with love now. 935 01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:19,709 At last, I'm close to happiness. " 936 01:13:26,709 --> 01:13:28,674 Drip dry. 937 01:13:28,709 --> 01:13:31,917 How often do you go through this little ritual? 938 01:13:31,952 --> 01:13:33,674 Oh, every day. 939 01:13:33,709 --> 01:13:35,667 The manufacturer recommends it. 940 01:13:35,702 --> 01:13:37,122 I don't believe it. 941 01:13:37,157 --> 01:13:38,542 Oh, yes, it's great. 942 01:13:41,083 --> 01:13:42,256 He aged amazingly well. 943 01:13:42,291 --> 01:13:46,041 There are few people who look as good as he did 944 01:13:46,076 --> 01:13:48,799 at the age of 50, at the age of 60. 945 01:13:48,834 --> 01:13:51,625 He was known for it, and it was still plausible 946 01:13:51,660 --> 01:13:54,417 that Audrey Hepburn would fall in love with him. 947 01:13:54,452 --> 01:13:56,205 Stop treating me like a child. 948 01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:57,924 Well then stop behaving like one. 949 01:13:57,959 --> 01:14:00,688 Now if you want to tell me what's troubling you, fine. 950 01:14:00,723 --> 01:14:03,417 If not I'm tired, it's late, and I want to go home to bed. 951 01:14:03,452 --> 01:14:05,083 Do you know what's wrong with you? 952 01:14:05,118 --> 01:14:07,830 No, what? 953 01:14:07,865 --> 01:14:10,542 Nothing. 954 01:14:14,083 --> 01:14:16,417 I'm sorry, we're all out of whistles. 955 01:14:16,452 --> 01:14:18,500 I told Harry she could help us. 956 01:14:18,535 --> 01:14:19,517 Help us do what? 957 01:14:19,552 --> 01:14:20,465 Fix your boat. 958 01:14:20,500 --> 01:14:24,090 Harry knows everything about boats. 959 01:14:24,125 --> 01:14:29,125 In "Father Goose," he plays an alcoholic, dejected, 960 01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:32,090 elderly man who has really given up on life 961 01:14:32,125 --> 01:14:37,625 and wants to go off by himself with a bottle of scotch. 962 01:14:37,660 --> 01:14:40,632 It's at the end of his career, he plays this role, 963 01:14:40,667 --> 01:14:42,291 and it's a popular film, but everyone's quite surprised 964 01:14:42,326 --> 01:14:45,625 to see him this way. 965 01:14:45,660 --> 01:14:46,382 Oh! 966 01:14:46,417 --> 01:14:47,833 You stepped on my foot! 967 01:14:47,868 --> 01:14:49,250 You put it under mine! 968 01:14:49,285 --> 01:14:50,465 Look out! 969 01:14:50,500 --> 01:14:53,507 You're all a bunch of nuts. 970 01:14:53,542 --> 01:14:55,959 It's the most un-Cary-Grant-like role 971 01:14:55,994 --> 01:14:57,434 he ever played. 972 01:14:57,469 --> 01:14:58,840 Oh, now hold it. 973 01:14:58,875 --> 01:15:00,625 And what have you got there? 974 01:15:00,660 --> 01:15:02,674 Oh, no! 975 01:15:02,709 --> 01:15:05,375 He said, at this point, that actually, 976 01:15:05,410 --> 01:15:07,006 this is who I really am. 977 01:15:07,041 --> 01:15:10,166 This is more like me than any of the roles I've played. 978 01:15:10,201 --> 01:15:12,965 Hey, what about the necktie? 979 01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:14,709 Well, now, this is no time to talk about me. 980 01:15:14,744 --> 01:15:19,215 Why not? 981 01:15:19,250 --> 01:15:22,437 Well, see, I thought they'd be more interested in 982 01:15:22,472 --> 01:15:25,625 what was inside a man's head, not around his neck. 983 01:15:25,660 --> 01:15:29,256 Then I noticed they all wore ties. 984 01:15:29,291 --> 01:15:31,500 They all looked alike and they all behaved alike and they all 985 01:15:31,535 --> 01:15:34,750 talked alike, but they were all going the same way, 986 01:15:34,785 --> 01:15:36,799 no matter which way they said they were going. 987 01:15:36,834 --> 01:15:40,750 So what was the use of teaching them history, or anything, 988 01:15:40,785 --> 01:15:41,799 they weren't learning by it? 989 01:15:41,834 --> 01:15:46,250 Still creating the same old problems, so I packed, 990 01:15:46,285 --> 01:15:48,208 got on a boat, and got away from them. 991 01:15:54,417 --> 01:15:58,166 "During my LSD therapy, I learned a great deal 992 01:15:58,201 --> 01:16:01,632 and the result of it all was rebirth. 993 01:16:01,667 --> 01:16:05,104 I got where I wanted to go, not completely, because 994 01:16:05,139 --> 01:16:08,542 you cut back the barnacles and find more barnacles, 995 01:16:08,577 --> 01:16:12,048 and you have to get these off. 996 01:16:12,083 --> 01:16:16,375 In life, there is no end to getting well. " 997 01:16:20,041 --> 01:16:22,667 Whenever he came to London, he would take trips 998 01:16:22,702 --> 01:16:25,632 down to Bristol to see his mother. 999 01:16:25,667 --> 01:16:29,375 Friends who accompanied him on those trips commented that 1000 01:16:29,410 --> 01:16:33,083 he set out very happily, excited to see her, but approaching 1001 01:16:33,118 --> 01:16:38,208 Bristol, he would get more and more somber and gloomy. 1002 01:17:03,375 --> 01:17:07,709 And they met the mother and found her to be a rather quiet, 1003 01:17:07,744 --> 01:17:11,542 somewhat severe, and unemotional person. 1004 01:17:14,709 --> 01:17:16,792 When they were together, it seems as though 1005 01:17:16,827 --> 01:17:18,893 something didn't gel. 1006 01:17:18,928 --> 01:17:20,609 He tried to impress her. 1007 01:17:20,644 --> 01:17:22,072 He tried to appeal to her. 1008 01:17:22,107 --> 01:17:23,465 He bought her presents. 1009 01:17:23,500 --> 01:17:26,479 And by all accounts, she was very reserved around him 1010 01:17:26,514 --> 01:17:29,458 and gave him a peck on the cheek and didn't let him know 1011 01:17:29,493 --> 01:17:32,256 how excited she was to see him. 1012 01:17:32,291 --> 01:17:34,583 Whereas, in the letters, she's full of praise for him 1013 01:17:34,618 --> 01:17:37,458 and full of emotion for him. 1014 01:17:44,250 --> 01:17:47,507 "I've made over 60 pictures and lived in Hollywood 1015 01:17:47,542 --> 01:17:53,417 for more than 30 years, 30 years spent in the stimulating company 1016 01:17:53,452 --> 01:17:57,959 of hard working, excitable, dedicated, loving, 1017 01:17:57,994 --> 01:18:02,924 serious, honest, good people. 1018 01:18:02,959 --> 01:18:05,792 30 years ago, my hair was black and wavy. 1019 01:18:05,827 --> 01:18:08,840 Today, it's gray and bristly. 1020 01:18:08,875 --> 01:18:12,458 But today, people in cars stopped alongside me 1021 01:18:12,493 --> 01:18:15,417 at a traffic light and smile at me. 1022 01:18:15,452 --> 01:18:18,788 I feel fine... 1023 01:18:18,823 --> 01:18:22,125 Alone, but fine. " 1024 01:18:50,875 --> 01:18:53,298 Once he retired from film, 1025 01:18:53,333 --> 01:18:55,749 he took on all sorts of activities, 1026 01:18:55,784 --> 01:18:58,131 none of them related to making films. 1027 01:18:58,166 --> 01:19:04,125 So he became a spokesman for Faberge at various events, 1028 01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:05,674 he traveled a great deal. 1029 01:19:05,709 --> 01:19:07,583 But the most important thing in his life was his daughter. 1030 01:19:07,618 --> 01:19:09,840 He and Dyan Cannon had Jennifer. 1031 01:19:09,875 --> 01:19:13,006 That's the main reason he wanted to retire. 1032 01:19:13,041 --> 01:19:15,895 He said I can't be spending 10, 12 hours a day on film sets. 1033 01:19:15,930 --> 01:19:18,750 I'm going to be a father, and I'm going to be a full-time, 1034 01:19:18,785 --> 01:19:22,080 full-on father, and he really meant it. 1035 01:19:22,115 --> 01:19:25,375 And she became the purpose in his life. 1036 01:19:30,083 --> 01:19:34,548 The marriage to Dyan Cannon lasted three years, 1037 01:19:34,583 --> 01:19:38,875 and after the divorce, he kept in very close contact 1038 01:19:38,910 --> 01:19:41,959 with Jennifer, his daughter. 1039 01:19:47,667 --> 01:19:49,542 I think one would imagine that we were out at 1040 01:19:49,577 --> 01:19:53,517 parties and premiers, things like that. 1041 01:19:53,552 --> 01:19:57,458 But really, we were at home watching TV. 1042 01:19:59,792 --> 01:20:06,674 He loved television or playing backgammon or cards 1043 01:20:06,709 --> 01:20:13,125 or listening to classical music, taking the sun, swimming. 1044 01:20:25,834 --> 01:20:29,896 He was incredibly protective of me. 1045 01:20:29,931 --> 01:20:33,924 I was his only child, and a girl. 1046 01:20:33,959 --> 01:20:38,375 I think he had fears about, you know, the male population 1047 01:20:38,410 --> 01:20:41,371 and how they would react to me and what might happen 1048 01:20:41,406 --> 01:20:44,298 if I went out, and he did not like me going out late, 1049 01:20:44,333 --> 01:20:48,542 because dad would worry, and I could hear it in his voice. 1050 01:20:48,577 --> 01:20:51,538 First of all, he'd be angry at me, then he'd give me 1051 01:20:51,573 --> 01:20:54,807 the silent treatment if I didn't obey these rules. 1052 01:20:54,842 --> 01:20:58,041 But it was because he was worried, and I knew it. 1053 01:21:36,458 --> 01:21:39,590 The age difference was difficult for me to come over 1054 01:21:39,625 --> 01:21:44,083 here and totally change my life but became immaterial because 1055 01:21:44,118 --> 01:21:48,215 I realized that to have someone whom you really love 1056 01:21:48,250 --> 01:21:50,959 and who really loves you is far more important than the age 1057 01:21:50,994 --> 01:21:54,507 difference, and also because Cary was who Cary was, 1058 01:21:54,542 --> 01:21:58,959 not Cary Grant, but because he was a man who was fascinated by 1059 01:21:58,994 --> 01:22:01,625 life and wanted to investigate things the whole time, 1060 01:22:01,660 --> 01:22:03,882 read new things. 1061 01:22:03,917 --> 01:22:07,500 He did not have a closed old mind at all. 1062 01:22:07,535 --> 01:22:11,048 His mind was probably younger than mine. 1063 01:22:11,083 --> 01:22:13,542 But he was a little bit shy, a little bit anxious, 1064 01:22:13,577 --> 01:22:14,792 a little bit wanting to make sure that 1065 01:22:14,827 --> 01:22:17,375 I was the right person. 1066 01:22:27,250 --> 01:22:31,000 I had to prove that I was worthy of him, because I think 1067 01:22:31,035 --> 01:22:34,542 he was a little bit wary of women. 1068 01:22:37,166 --> 01:22:40,166 Somewhere in the depths of his mind was the fact that 1069 01:22:40,201 --> 01:22:43,291 women were not always going to be there. 1070 01:22:48,333 --> 01:22:52,250 Once he realized that I was in his life for the right reason 1071 01:22:52,285 --> 01:22:56,330 and truly loved him, I think then all that had not been 1072 01:22:56,365 --> 01:23:00,375 shown before was sort of showered on me, thank goodness. 1073 01:23:00,410 --> 01:23:01,959 I mean, it was wonderful. 1074 01:23:06,709 --> 01:23:10,334 Cary's shyness was a strange combination of someone who 1075 01:23:10,369 --> 01:23:13,476 used to be a particular way and someone that he had become. 1076 01:23:13,511 --> 01:23:16,583 So there was still a little bit of the old Archie Leach 1077 01:23:16,618 --> 01:23:18,340 that sort of stayed with Cary. 1078 01:23:18,375 --> 01:23:22,083 But he didn't really love being out in the public too much. 1079 01:23:22,118 --> 01:23:26,667 I mean, he hated, for example, having to get up 1080 01:23:26,702 --> 01:23:29,458 and make a speech, absolutely hated it. 1081 01:23:29,493 --> 01:23:30,924 He wouldn't eat beforehand. 1082 01:23:30,959 --> 01:23:32,298 He would be terribly, terribly nervous. 1083 01:23:32,333 --> 01:23:35,250 That's why he loved the "Conversations with Cary Grant," 1084 01:23:35,285 --> 01:23:40,131 because someone was asking him a question. 1085 01:23:40,166 --> 01:23:44,249 He started the whole evening by showing clips of many films 1086 01:23:44,284 --> 01:23:48,333 where backflips were done and various other things were done, 1087 01:23:48,368 --> 01:23:50,423 and then he would tell a joke, 1088 01:23:50,458 --> 01:23:52,799 and then people will ask him questions. 1089 01:23:52,834 --> 01:23:56,959 And so it was a format that he came up with and loved. 1090 01:24:05,041 --> 01:24:08,437 Cary always used to have a rehearsal, and he always 1091 01:24:08,472 --> 01:24:11,834 wanted me sitting in the audience so that I could say, 1092 01:24:11,869 --> 01:24:14,268 "I can't hear you, can hear you," or whatever. 1093 01:24:14,303 --> 01:24:16,632 And I was sitting in the audience and he was going 1094 01:24:16,667 --> 01:24:19,041 through the lighting and going through everything else, 1095 01:24:19,076 --> 01:24:25,125 and then his voice became a little bit flustered. 1096 01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:27,288 His mind became a little bit flustered, 1097 01:24:27,323 --> 01:24:29,382 and he beckoned for me to come on stage. 1098 01:24:29,417 --> 01:24:36,875 So I went up to him, and he asked me just to hold him tight 1099 01:24:36,910 --> 01:24:39,166 because he wasn't feeling very well. 1100 01:24:41,709 --> 01:24:44,875 In the ambulance, he was still conscious. 1101 01:24:44,910 --> 01:24:47,382 When we got to the hospital, 1102 01:24:47,417 --> 01:24:50,750 they wouldn't let me stay with him unfortunately. 1103 01:24:50,785 --> 01:24:54,083 And they came back at one stage and said that 1104 01:24:54,118 --> 01:24:56,500 he'd had a massive stroke. 1105 01:25:07,917 --> 01:25:08,882 He was cremated. 1106 01:25:08,917 --> 01:25:11,048 He didn't want a funeral of any description. 1107 01:25:11,083 --> 01:25:15,875 He didn't want any party or anything to do with his death. 1108 01:25:15,910 --> 01:25:16,917 So there was no funeral. 1109 01:25:16,952 --> 01:25:19,048 There was nothing. 1110 01:25:19,083 --> 01:25:22,709 Kirk Kerkorian took - he did want his ashes spread over 1111 01:25:22,744 --> 01:25:26,423 the sea, the ocean, and also, over the house here, 1112 01:25:26,458 --> 01:25:31,750 and so Kirk Kerkorian took us up in a helicopter, Jennifer and I, 1113 01:25:31,785 --> 01:25:35,792 up in a helicopter, and we did exactly as Cary had wanted. 1114 01:25:58,583 --> 01:26:01,924 I've heard that you worked as a lifeguard, 1115 01:26:01,959 --> 01:26:04,583 and did you have any ambition to work on a ship or to work - 1116 01:26:04,618 --> 01:26:07,208 Yes, I had an ambition to travel, I liked to travel, 1117 01:26:07,243 --> 01:26:10,757 and I was born in a very old city, Bristol. 1118 01:26:10,792 --> 01:26:15,674 In those days, the ships came almost into the center of 1119 01:26:15,709 --> 01:26:19,750 the city, so I was constantly interested in what was going on 1120 01:26:19,785 --> 01:26:22,834 down there, and the fact that those ships took people 1121 01:26:22,869 --> 01:26:26,834 all over the world. 1122 01:26:34,667 --> 01:26:35,667 Can you describe to me what you're looking at 1123 01:26:35,702 --> 01:26:37,882 right now? 1124 01:26:37,917 --> 01:26:38,834 What I'm looking at right now? 1125 01:26:38,869 --> 01:26:39,548 Uh-huh. 1126 01:26:39,583 --> 01:26:40,173 Oh, how interesting. 1127 01:26:40,208 --> 01:26:43,632 Well, I'm in the bedroom. 1128 01:26:43,667 --> 01:26:49,292 It's a bedroom that still has an unmade king-sized bed in it, 1129 01:26:49,327 --> 01:26:54,917 facing a TV set, and it looks out upon Beverly buildings. 1130 01:26:54,952 --> 01:26:58,875 Well, it has a long sloping lawn in front of it 1131 01:26:58,910 --> 01:27:01,215 going down to a swimming pool. 1132 01:27:01,250 --> 01:27:06,166 I look out to my right as far as the ocean, but there are many, 1133 01:27:06,201 --> 01:27:10,875 many trees in my vision, and then I look down to 1134 01:27:10,910 --> 01:27:13,715 the 20th Century Building. 1135 01:27:13,750 --> 01:27:17,875 It's a very nice panoramic view up here.