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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 434906" data-attributes="member: 5079">My only disagreement being that I think he should have been first.To people with the odd notion that an actor's job is to become a different person, Grant's work may look all the same.  After all, he couldn't but look and sound like Cary Grant.  That overlooks the remarkable nuance of Grant's performances. Absurdly handsome and debonair, he could could still play an average dad or even a bumbling nerd.  Like his perfect screen partner, Kate Hepburn (and I like their pairings far more than Tracy & Hepburn), Grant was a master at playing variations of himself.  Like Hepburn, he was exceptional in comedy and light drama but, unlike Kate, had the good sense to stay away from heavy drama. I mean the idea of Grant in Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams ...</blockquote>