A biennial festival celebrating Cary Grant, based in his hometown, Bristol
18-20 November 2022
SAVE THE DATE for our next festival which will be on the theme of “Class”, exploring Cary Grant’s incredible journey from working class poverty as son of a tailor’s presser in Bristol, UK to the epitome of Hollywood elegance and style. Sign up to our news letter for updates.
20 January 2022, 6pm—7.30pm (GMT)
A talk about William Edward Green and Archibald Alexander Leach, two working class boys who grew up in Bristol. Willie reinvented himself as early cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene. Archie became Hollywood icon Cary Grant, one of cinema’s brightest and most enduring stars.
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Cate Bryan Piano Studio presents a piano recital in honour of Cary Grant’s 118th Birthday, with a programme including music featured in some of our favourite Cary Grant films from North by Northwest to An Affair to Remember. Includes audience participation!
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A live discussion and Q&A between David Long, the man who campaigned for the statue and Charlotte Crofts, director of the Cary Comes Home festival, discussing the impetus behind the successful statue campaign and its legacy.
Read more The Cary Grant Statue: 20 Years – a conversation with David Long
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Check out our Crowdcast channel where you can watch again or catch up on the 2020 Festival. 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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On 29 November 1986, Cary Grant died on tour in Davenport Iowa. Join Cary Comes Home Festival director Charlotte Crofts for an informal chat with J Douglas Miller who was there, to mark Cary Grant’s death anniversary
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Mark Glancy introduces his new book, including startling new revelations about Cary Grant’s upbringing in Bristol, England, with Charlotte Crofts and Andrew Kelly, Bristol Festival of Ideas
Read more UK Book Launch: Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend
To extend our watch-along screening of one of Cary Grant’s most romantic roles in An Affair to Remember in 2020 we hosted a watch-along marathon of all the “Love Affairs to Remember” films, culminating with a “cool down” discussion with film programmer and activist living with disabilities, Ross Wilcock
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The original version directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, which McCarey remade almost shot by shot as An Affair to Remember. Part of the Love Affairs to Remember Marathon.
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Commemorating the centenary of Cary Grant emigrating to America and international stardom, in 2020 we commissioned video essays exploring journeys of many types, in partnership with the Video Essay Podcast. Watch the full Screening and Q&A here.
Read more The Journeys of Cary Grant: An Audiovisual Celebration
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Warren Beatty stars and produces this third iteration of the Love Affairs to Remember films, opposite Annette Benning and Katharine Hepburn, in her last screen performance, and an underrated score by the late Ennio Moriccone.
20-22 November 2020
The overarching theme of the 2020 festival was Journeys – celebrating the centenary of Archie’s emigration to the Big Apple in 1920, but also acknowledging other journeys of class and social mobility, identity and self-discovery…
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In this illustrated talk, Mark Glancy explores the Port city of Bristol as the source of Archie’s wanderlust, and considers how his travels affected and educated, chronicling his many journeys, and the influence that they had on the star image of Cary Grant, with a Q&A with Dr Matthew Sweet.
In usual times we’d be meeting in person looking fabulous and chinking cocktails, but there’s nothing stopping us getting into the spirit at home. To that end, here are some ideas of what to drink and wear during our watch-along screenings.
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Cary Grant stars alongside fellow Bristolian Deborah Kerr in Leo McCarey’s classic love story, one of the most romantic films of all time, a heart-wrenching weepy about unexpected lovers whose bond is so strong, not even great tragedy can break it, with an introduction by film critic and historian, Pamela Hutchinson.
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Festival welcome & illustrated talk, by festival director, Charlotte Crofts, exploring Cary Grant’s working class Bristol roots, his dog-co-stars and his less glamorous roles
Read more His Master’s Voice: Cary Grant, Nipper and the Bristol Burr
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Nora Ephron’s homage to An Affair to Remember starring Tom Hanks as recently widowed Sam Baldwin, whose son Jonah calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a new wife, with Meg Ryan as Annie Reed who falls for them both. Part of the Love Affairs to Remember Marathon.
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Join us for this watch-along of Penny Serenade starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, with an introduction by Aurora Bugallo (@CitizenScreen) on why she thinks this is such an underrated gem.
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An almost shot by shot remake of An Affair to Remember starring Aamir Kahn, Manisha Koirala and Anil Kapoor and the Gateway of India standing in for the Empire State Building, with an introduction by Monia Acciari, director of the UK Asian Film Festival, Leicester.
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In this rip-roaring adventure three British soldiers (Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr) must stop the secret murderous Thuggee cult, with the help of Gunga Din, a native water-bearer, with an introduction contextualising the representation of colonial India by Rehan Hyder, UWE Bristol.
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Join us for a Cary Grant quiz hosted by another Bristol film institution, Twentieth Century Flicks Video Shop. Prizes include copies of Mark Glancy’s Book Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend courtesy of publisher Oxford University Press and Official Cary Comes Home Merch.
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Academic and author Mark Glancy joins Charlotte Crofts for a sneak peek of his new book, Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend on the eve of its US publication
Read more SNEAK PEEK!: Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend
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An illustrated talk by Professor James Naremore who analyses the variety of performance styles in a range of Cary Grant’s best-loved and lesser known films to mark the centenary of Archie arriving in the Big Apple…
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Join us for a virtual tour of Cary Grant’s New York, to celebrate the centenary of Archie Leach’s arrival in America, the first step of his journey to becoming Cary Grant.
Read more Greeting Cary Grant: A Virtual Tour of Cary Grant’s New York
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Learn about Archie Leach’s first transatlantic voyage on the RMS Olympic 100-years ago in this illustrated talk with our Festival Director Dr Charlotte Crofts…