Cockney Cary

Crofts, Charlotte; Naremore, James

Abstract

Book Launch for James Naremore’s Some Versions of Cary Grant and Cary Comes Home festival programme announcement, 5 October.

“Cary Grant famously said, ‘Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant’. His development of that star image required serious work, but he also played a variety of characters requiring special performing talents. He was equally skilled in the screwball farce The Awful Truth, the dark thriller Notorious, the romantic melodrama An Affair to Remember, the domestic comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, and the social drama None But the Lonely Heart. In a lively style accompanied by many illustrations, James Naremore analyzes these and other of Grant’s best films, demonstrating that he had exceptional talent and greater range than usually recognized.”

Cockney Cary is the focus of this illustrated talk, centring on films such as Sylvia Scarlett and None But The Lonely Heart in which Grant plays a working class character with a stage-Cockney accent – against type, but much closer to his own life experience, although he was a Bristolian, not a Londoner. This year’s Cary Comes Home Festival takes place 18-20 November 2022 and the full programme will be revealed by festival director, Charlotte Crofts, at this event.

• Digital Artefact Type: Video
• Publication Date: Oct 5, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jan 5, 2023
• Keywords: Cary Grant; Class; James Naremore
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10289950
• External URL: https://www.carycomeshome.co.uk/events/cockney-cary