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Suave and debonair, Cary Grant excelled at screwball comedy, romancing the ladies, adventure, and arousing fear and suspicion - not for nothing was he one of Alfred Hitchcock's favorite leading men. Grant even brought class to the one role in which he played a "drunk, disgusting, irasible, misanthropic character", Walter Eckland in Father Goose; even then he won over the girl (and girls).

Check out Grant at his screwiest in Arsenic and Old Lace with Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, and Jack Carson. Grant plays Mortimer Brewster, a New York drama critic, whose family is...well, a little derranged. His younger brother thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, his older brother looks like Boris Karloff, and his aunts are full of compassion for those who are alone in the world...to the point of sending them out of the world. It all adds up to a black comedy with lots of laughs.

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