A biennial festival celebrating Cary Grant, based in his hometown, Bristol
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Our new actor-led theatre walk, launched in November 2023, coincided with the launch of ITVX’s new 4 part drama ARCHIE – filmed in Liverpool! But Bristol is where Archie Leach was born and where the seeds of Cary Grant were sown…
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Check out our Crowdcast channel where you can watch our event recordings again or catch up on the 2020 Festival when we pivoted online during lockdown. Follow the channel to keep up to date with our forthcoming events. Once you’ve registered you can click on the ‘Save my spot’ button to register for events with one log-in…
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Our festival director Professor Charlotte Crofts presented on her chapter about the Looking For Archie Walking Tour at the Book Launch of Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes, and spoke about her collaboration with Show of Strength Theatre Company to develop a new, actor-led theatre walk of Cary Grant/Archie’s Bristol
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Join Professor Mark Glancy (Queen Mary University London) and Dr Kathrina Glitre (UWE Bristol) in a panel discussion about the making of Night and Day (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1946), the musical biopic in which Cary Grant plays the famous composer Cole Porter.
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In this live online concert, join Cate Bryan as she plays a selection of songs from the Cole Porter Song Collection on the piano to whet your appetite for our screening of Night and Day
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We are getting a kick out of announcing our festival autumn program and are pleased to confirm that we will be screening the technicolor Cole Porter biopic, Night and Day at the historic St Mary Redcliffe Church – the first picture in which Cary Grant appeared in colour.
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Join us for an extra special pilot of an all-new immersive actor-led theatre walk with Show Of Strength Theatre Company, using language and location to explore the transformation of Bristol boy Archie Leach into Cary Grant, the world’s most famous movie star.
Read more Raising Cary Grant, the Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach
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Tissues at the ready for this special screening of a Cary Grant classic! Join us at the iconic Curzon, Clevedon to see Cary Grant starring alongside fellow Bristolian Deborah Kerr in Leo McCarey’s timeless love story.