Remembering Cary Grant

It has been 35 years since the death of beloved screen icon Cary Grant, who passed away aged 82 on 29 November 1986. Born Archibald Leach on 18 January 1904, Grant took the name 'Cary Grant' at the request of Paramount Studios who signed the actor in the early 1930s. Hollywood legend says that he...

Rear Window – A captivating story of a Peeping Tom that keeps you guessing

Rear Window is a film that I had been aware of for many years but had only recently watched following my newfound love of films from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, Rear Window tells the story of a wheelchair-bound photographer, L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies (Stewart), recuperating...

The 50 greatest Classic Hollywood screen legends

Classic Hollywood celebrates American films that were released between the 1910s and the 1960s. Commercial film production in the United States developed rapidly after World War I (1914-1918); the major Hollywood studios together were releasing more than 500 feature films a year by the mid-1930s. Source: Professor David Neumeyer. The American Film Institute (AFI) has...

My Favourite Wife review – Witty dialogue, moments of pure joy and the unexpected delight of seeing Cary Grant in fancy dress

Celebrating my birthday this week there was just one man I wanted to spend it with, well, until my boyfriend returned home from work: the wonderful, charming Cary Grant. Over the last few months I've been working my way through Grant's filmography. I decided to watch My Favourite Wife, released in 1940 and directed by...