Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked
Born on 4 July, one of the last true stars of Hollywood’s golden age celebrates her centenary next week. We look back at the landmark roles of a 75-year career
January 2024
‘Just a person who liked chips’: Bristol takeaway celebrates Cary Grant ties
Rendezvous restaurant loved by young Archibald Leach marks film star’s 120th birthday
November 2023
TV review
Archie review – Jason Isaacs is every bit as smooth as Cary Grant
This charmingly cheesy four-part bio-drama profiles five phases of the Hollywood star’s life courtesy of stunning performances – which plunge into the actor’s dark depths
‘Cary Grant’s whole life was a civil war’: the TV drama unmasking Hollywood’s permatanned icon
The mansion-dwelling megastar was born Archibald Leach and grew up in a squalid Bristol terrace believing his mother was dead. The stars and writer of Archie talk about his rise, shame and redemption
Cary Grant biopic boosts interest in star’s harsh early life in Bristol
New series, Archie, screened in English hometown of Hollywood legend many think of as being wholly American
July 2023
Words matter when we talk about Jenin
The trauma of Cary Grant: how he thrived after a terrible childhood - as told by his daughter
April 2023
Return of the romcom: the genre is thriving again – but with new values
For a dose of hope in hard times, romcoms still do the trick. Just don’t expect to see a remake of Pretty Woman any time soon
December 2022
Ranked
The best New Year’s Eve scenes – ranked
The Bishop’s Wife review – Cary Grant and David Niven shine in cosy Christmas comedy
November 2020
Lockdown culture
Culture to cheer you up during the second lockdown: part two
Following yesterday’s roundup of music, games, books, TV, dance and visual art, our critics continue their picks of culture to lift the spirits during tough times
Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'
The 86-year-old, star of the Netflix drama The Life Ahead, looks back at her own life, from the squalor of wartime Naples to the glamour of international fame
Cary Grant never proposed to me on set, says Sophia Loren
Actor puts myth to bed in Radio Times interview in which she also reveals her one regret
March 2020
Lockdown watch
Lockdown watch: John Landis on seeking solace in Zero Mostel movies
Continuing our series of expert recommendations for self-isolation, Blues Brothers director John Landis on Panic in the Streets, The Producers and the delights of early 1930s horror
October 2019
Scotty Bowers, ‘male madame to the stars’, dies aged 96
Bowers claimed to have slept his way through golden-age Hollywood while helping stars hide and indulge their true sexual natures
August 2019
Notorious review – Hitchcock's deliciously entertaining story of espionage
Ingrid Bergman is magnificent alongside Cary Grant in this brilliantly crafted, lethally elegant thriller
May 2019
Doris Day: the wholesome face of postwar American optimism
The actress, who has died aged 97, worked with the greats of Hollywood’s golden era to rival the crossover success of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley
August 2018
Hollywood's secret history: Scotty Bowers on sex and stars in the Golden Era
A new documentary reworks the memoir of Bowers, who boasts he paired Cary Grant with Rock Hudson and Katharine Hepburn with 150 brunettes – and slept with so many actors he didn’t have time to see their films
July 2018
Does the 25ft, topless Jeff Goldblum tower over similar statues?
How does the new statue depicting Goldblum in character as Jurassic Park’s smouldering scientist compare to other public art immortalising movie stars?
April 2018
My favourite film decade
From The Wizard of Oz to Top Hat – why the 1930s is my favourite film decade
Depression-era audiences escaped into a whirl of glamour, fantasy and monsters in a decade that ushered in Hollywood’s golden age
