What's wrong with Cary?


I've seen a lot of Cary Grant movies and I wanted to watch this early one and see how he was. And there was something wrong with his face. I mean, not "wrong" but just different from the "famous" Cary Grant. Something about his hair or eyes. His eyebrows? I'm going to watch Arsenic & Old Lace tonight and see if I can spot it, but, just wondered if anyone else felt this way & if you can figure out what it was.


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I think he had some surgery done after this film which is why he looks different. I think it's the nose.

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I think its the character. Cary was playing a straight up dupe to a less than outrageously gorgeous woman. Mae was attractive but she wasn't classy. She was a trashy and the closest analogy would be porn star level babe. Within the story Cary's character is the smartest guy in the general vicinity but was no match for Mae's cleverness and the Cary realizes this and seems to be a little embarassed.

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He was also probably wearing a lot of makeup. To me he looked like he had a lot of face powder and dark eye makeup caked on.

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Not sure about the "dupe" part -- didn't he get the last laugh in the end?

He was undercover the whole time ... his "dupe" act was a dupe!

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He was never duped by her, he always knew what she was up to.

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I'm pretty sure it's just the 'stage makeup' style used to get good contrast in the early pictures. He's clearly wearing pancake, rouge, lipstick, eye-shadow & has his eyebrows made up.



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I agree, he's plastered with makeup in some of his scenes in this movie in a way he never was anywhere else I believe and looks like an actor who stepped out of some of silent movie melodrama.

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"I agree, he's plastered with makeup in some of his scenes in this movie in a way he never was anywhere else I believe and looks like an actor who stepped out of some of silent movie melodrama."

Very well put. I also think his acting was more subdued in order not to upstage Mae West.

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He looks a dead ringer for Corad Veidt in Caligari.

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Too much make-up and plucked eyebrows.

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He was still in the process of attuning to the weirdness of America, in general, and Hollywood, in particular.

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I thought he looked gorgeous! But, yes, his eyebrows did seem somewhat different.


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he looks so handsome
and so young

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Well, he dumped Rita for Lou, so there was definitely something wrong with his eyes.

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