Over a career spanning 34 years, 1932-1966, Cary Grant (Hollywood’s greatest movie star) had worked with the industry’s best directors.
However, our study (and future book) shows that four filmmakers were of particular significance in Grant’s career.
George Cukor: 3 movies
In all three films he co-starred with Katharine Hepburn, Cukor’s most frequent screen actress (12 features).
Sylvia Scarlett (1936)
Holiday (1938); Hepburn got Best Actress Nomination
The Philadelphia Story (1940); Best Picture and Best Actress nominee.
Howard Hawks: 5 movies
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Only Angels Gave Wings (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Monkey Business (1952), opposite Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe
Leo McCarey: 3 films
The Awful Truth (1937)
Once Upon a Honeymoon
An Affair to Remember 91959), opposite Deborah Kerr
George Stevens: 2 films
Ginga Din (1939)
Penny Serenade (1941)
Alfred Hitchcock: 4 films
Suspicion (1941)
Notorious (1946)
To catch a Thief (1955)
North By Northwest (1959)
Stanley Donen: 4 films
Kiss Them For Me (1957)
Indiscreet (1958)
The Grass is Greener (1961)
Charade (1963)
Other Directors:
Josef von Sternberg, Blonde Venus (1932)
Raoul Walsh, Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Garson Kanin: My Favorite Wife (1940)
Clifford Odets, None But the Lonely Heart (1944); Best Actor nomination
Michael Curtiz, Night and Day (1946)
Blake Edwards: Operation Petticoat (1959)
