There’s something about Cary Grant that will always evoke charm, elegance, and intensity. Yet it’s also because of his humor that Grant solidified a persona. He was a man of many contradictions, always trying to reconcile one aspect of himself with another. “I have spent the greater part of my life,” he said in 1963, “fluctuating between Archie Leach and Cary Grant; unsure of either, suspecting each.” Grant’s life wasn’t easy, yet it is precisely this contradiction that subtly comes out in his acting, especially in his famous screwball comedies.
