'Becoming Cary Grant' Reveals The Self-Invention Of A Hollywood Icon
"There's a classic moment in the romantic thriller Charade, when Audrey Hepburn
says to Cary Grant in exasperation,'Do you know what's the matter with you? ... Nothing.'"
"For decades, the whole world felt the same. Grant's unrivaled blend of charm, good looks and silliness — he hadn't a shred of pomposity or elitism — made him a movie star everyone loved. Everyone, that is, except Archie Leach, the actor's real-life self who wrote that he'd spent years cautiously peering from behind the face of a man known as Cary Grant."
"The journey from Archie to Cary is the subject of Mark Kidel's enjoyable documentary, Becoming Cary Grant. Weaving together the actor's private home movies, excerpts from his unpublished writings and terrific clips from his Hollywood work, this Showtime film tells the story of an arduous act of self-invention."