Watch: The Awful Truth About Cary Grant
Join the Cary Grant Festival Director Professor Charlotte Crofts (UWE Bristol) and Professor Mark Glancy (Queen Mary University, London), the author of Becoming Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend as they discuss the significance of The Awful Truth in Cary Grant’s career. Learn about director Leo McCarey’s influence on Grant’s performance, the evolution of his comedic style, and the film’s critical acclaim.
Mark Glancy is Professor in Film History at Queen Mary University of London. His book, Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, is published by Oxford University (USA, 2020; UK 2021). He was editorial consultant on Becoming Cary Grant (Yuzu Productions, 2017), and he has written articles about Grant’s career for The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz (Palmer & Pomerance, eds) and London on Film (Hirsch & O’Rourke, eds). His other publications include Hollywood & the Americanization of Britain, From the 1920s to the Present (Tauris, 2014), The 39 Steps: A British Film Guide (Tauris, 2003), When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood ‘British’ Film, 1939-45 (Manchester University Press, 1999), and, as co-editor with James Chapman and Sue Harper, The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches (Palgrave, 2007).