Cary Grant is one of my favorite actors of all times. Here’s my top 10 Cary Grant Movies.
10. Penny Serenade
Director: George Stevens
Year: 1941
Grant plays Roger Adams
Also starring Irene Dunne
This is an early Cary Grant movie that many don’t know about. It’s a touching story. But be warned. You’ll need plenty of tissues. It’s a real tear jerker.
9. North By Northwest
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1959
Bogart plays Roger O’Thornhill
Also starring Eva Marie Saint
Not my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie, but still well worth seeing.
8. To Catch a Thief
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1955
Grant plays John Robie
Also starring Grace Kelly
You can’t go wrong when you put Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, and Cary Grant together.
7. That Touch of Mink
Director: Delbert Mann
Year: 1962
Grant plays Phillip Shayne
Also starring Doris Day
This classic Doris Day movie is even better because Cary Grant is in it.
6. Indiscreet
Director: Stanley Donen
Year: 1958
Grant plays Phillip Adams
Also starring Ingrid Bergman
Sparks fly when a man pretends to be married so his girlfriend won’t expect him to marry her.
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5. I Was a Male War Bride
Director: Howard Hawks
Year: 1949
Grant plays Henri Rochard
Also starring Ann Sheridan
The funniest Cary Grant movie ever made.
4. People Will Talk
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Year: 1951
Grant plays Dr. Noah Praetorius
Also starring Jeanne Crain
Grant plays a professor who often does the unexpected especially when he marries a college student who is pregnant by her boyfriend who died in combat. This movie is funny and touching but also shows the hypocrisy in some societal conventions.
3. Notorious
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1946
Grant plays T.R. Devlin
Also starring Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains
Another Alfred Hitchcock thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
2. Suspicion
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1941
Grant plays Johnnie
Also starring Joan Fontaine and Nigel Bruce
This is Cary Grant’s first Alfred Hitchcock movie, and it kept me on the edge of my seat the entire movie.
1. An Affair To Remember
Director: Leo McCarey
Year: 1957
Grant plays Nicky Ferrante
Also starring Deborah Kerr
This is the best movie Cary Grant ever made. The way Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr played off each other was brilliant. There were two other versions of this story made with other actors, but they aren’t even in the ballpark with this one. It’s one of my top three romance movies as well.
There are many more Cary Grant movies I love that didn’t make the list. What is your favorite Cary Grant movie.
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North by Northwest. Simply my favorite Cray Grant film.
It is a good one.
I *love* Cary Grant, esp. the movies he made with Hitchcock, but you missed some of his best performances!
What about:
Arsenic & Old Lace
Operation: Petticoat
The Philadelphia Story
Father Goose
Bringing Up Baby
I’m going to have to send this link to my sis… we’re both Cary Grant fans!
I love the ones you mentioned too. If it were the top 20, they would be on the list. Also Houseboat and The Bishop’s Wife. Which movies would you bump to put them in the top 10?
The problem is I haven’t seen about 1/2 – 2/3 of the ones you listed, so I’m not sure. But, Arsenic & Philadelphia are quintessential Cary Grant. Of the ones I *haven’t* seen, I’ve been meaning to see them. (I think I’ve seen ‘Affair’ but can’t remember. And, I thought I’d seen all of the Grant/Hitchcock pairings, but you’ve proven me wrong! I haven’t seen ‘Suspicion’.)
Story about ‘Notorious’: it’s the first Hitchcock movie I ever saw, probably the first time I’d seen Ingrid Bergman. My parents owned it on laserdisc (remember those things?) and wouldn’t let me watch it for the longest time. It’s been a *long* time since I’ve seen it now… I should pick up a copy. 🙂
Notorious is one of my all-time favorites, Tamara. The love story is incomparable, the suspense fresh each time I watch it, the acting superb. The chemistry between Grant and Bergman is electric. Love it!
It’s one of my favorites as well.
I’d also recommend Charade. It’s not as famous as some others, but is excellent, suspenseful, and very, very funny.
Another great one that would have been in my top 20.
i know i’m super late, but fantastic list! I’m with Liberty though, probably would have swapped “Indiscreet” for “The Philidelphia Story”, but I’m just a die-hard Kate Hepburn fan.
love the lists! keep it up :c)