Movie Stars: Grant, Cary–Hollywood’s Greatest Movie Actor, Star, Icon

Cary Grant’s spectacular career spanned over three decades, during which he made 72 features, most of them commercial hits.

Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The (1947): Cary Grant as Cocky Playboy, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple

Shockingly, this weak Cary Grant-Shirley Temple farce won the Original Screenplay Oscar, one of the weakest choices in the Academy's history, considering that in the same year the nominees included: “Body and Soul,” Cukor's “A Double Life,” Chaplin's “Monsieur Verdoux,” and Vittorio De Sica's “Shoeshine.”