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Summer Under the Stars: Cary Grant

TCM, beginning at 3 a.m.

Actor Archibald Leach — who, working professionally as Cary Grant, was the quintessential example of a suave, witty, charming, handsome and debonair silverscreen star — is celebrated today during Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars with 12 of his films, a lineup that naturally includes the romantic comedies and Hitchcock thrillers with which Grant is most associated. The laughs come from titles such as The Philadelphia Story (1940),

His Girl Friday (pictured) (1940), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) and Houseboat (1958), with thrills to be had from Hitch’s Suspicion (1941) and North by Northwest (1959). Some Grant-led dramas are also among today’s films, including Penny Serenade (1941), in which the star received a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

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