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Cary Grant: Performances
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"Charade," in 1963, was Grant's last good movie. The Stanley Donen stylish romantic thriller should have been his swan song. It was... the last movie in which Cary Grant played Cary Grant, the urbane lover who doesn't need to take himself seriously because the girl (Audrey Hepburn) will. His performance in this picture was a career-summation, expressing his trademark of calm elegance.
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It is in Notorious (1946)... that Hitchcock fully uses the conflict between Grant's image and his character's personality. As Devlin, an emotionally repressed American agent, Grant sends the woman he has unwillingly come to love into the arms of a Nazi collaborator. Devlin's struggle against his attraction to this woman nearly causes her death when he blindly ignores signs that she might be in danger. The bizarre love triangle in this film hinges on the woman's attraction to Grant despite his unfeeling behavior, and his performance is both fascinating and disturbing.
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Indiscreet: Ingrid Bergman teams up with Cary again, this time in an amusing romantic comedy. Ingrid plays an actress who doesn't mind that she's having an affair with a married man, --a pretty scandalous way to confront her own personal life. The ironic twist comes when she finds out he's not really married and breaks off the affair. Grant and Bergman had a genuine friendship which comes through in their performances. Grant always felt that she was treated unfairly by Hollywood and he even accepted an Oscar on her behalf when nobody in Tinsel Town wanted to have anything to do with the Swedish femme fatale. Their chemistry is completely watchable despite the anemic script, and Bergman proves herself to be an adept comedian.
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Christopher Reeve said he based his portrayal of Clark Kent on Grant's 1938 performance as the awkward bespectacled scientist in Bringing Up Baby. Grant's performance in that film had in turn been inspired by Harold Lloyd.
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