Summary
The double life of the Bristol born Hollywood star of films including Suspicion, The Philadelphia Story and Charade. Matthew Sweet and guests imagine an evening in the film star's company. Born Archie Leach in 1904, he starred in films by Alfred Hitchcock, played opposite actors including Doris Day and Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr, Sophia Loren and Katherine Hepburn, and sat on the board of MGM films, before his death in 1986.
Charlotte Crofts runs the bi-annual Cary Grant Festival and is an Associate Professor of Film-making at the University of the West of England. Pamela Hutchinson blogs about silent cinema at SilentLondon.co.uk as well as contributing regularly to Sight & Sound and the Guardian. Mark Glancy is a Reader in Film History at Queen Mary, University of London
The Cary Comes Home weekend in Bristol is due to take place 20-22 November 2020
Producer: Craig Smith
You can find more episodes of Free Thinking in which Matthew discusses films including Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06xjln9 Hitchcock's Marnie https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05k6tn7 2001 A Space Odyssey https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sv91q
They are all in a playlist called Landmarks of Culture https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps |
| 0:21.2 | it. It's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream |
| 0:26.1 | van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, I'm Matthew Sweet and this is the Arts and Ideas podcast after these messages. |
| 0:43.3 | Hello, I'm Jessica Curry, host of the Sound of Gaming podcast. |
| 0:47.8 | If you love video game music or chatting over a cup of with some amazing composers as much as I do, |
| 0:53.6 | then you really must come on over and join us. |
| 0:56.9 | I'll be meeting a different composer each week to talk about their work in games, |
| 1:01.8 | chatting about the music in some of my favourite scores and lifting the lid on just what us composers are getting up to behind the curtain while you're playing. |
| 1:12.8 | Search BBC Sounds for Sound of Gaming and hit subscribe to listen now. Fancy a night out, I know, don't say it, but just |
| 1:23.7 | because you can't doesn't mean that you don't want to. And in these locked down times when our lives are so prescribed, |
| 1:30.9 | and we may feel lonely because we're on our own or lonely because we're not, |
| 1:35.9 | then we've got to take our pleasure where we can find it. |
| 1:39.1 | So this edition of free thinking is offering you a kind of dream. |
| 1:43.3 | We're going to paint the town red, have cocktails. |
| 1:46.5 | Can I tell you about our date? Well, he was born in 1904, but maybe some of you are into older men, |
| 1:53.6 | and even if you're not, you don't have to kiss him, though as he's Carrie Grant, nobody would |
| 1:58.5 | blame you if you did. He's the very model of a movie star, |
| 2:02.7 | tall, dark, handsome, great in farces like arsenic and old lace, and in screwball comedies |
| 2:09.2 | like Bringing Up Baby and the Philadelphia Story, and Hitchcock's perfect leading man, |
| 2:15.3 | maybe a murderer in suspicion, definitely a victim in North by Northwest. |
| 2:21.0 | Women wanted him and men wanted to be him, they said. |
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