Cary Grant
He is 62 in his final film, I guess he had already stopped dying his hair, but looks pretty good! Too bad he decided to retire after this.
shareI agree. It is too bad he retired. He was still hilarious.
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Maybe he chose to retire while he was still popular, instead of trying to keep up his popularity when a very different sort of generation of actors was gaining momentum in Hollywood.
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JimHutton (1934-79) & ElleryQueen
Yes he did choose to retire because he said he would have a hard time keeping up with the leading ladies, be too much of an age difference, as handsome as he was. Also, he had a child to bring up.
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Grant’s retirement seems to have been tied to:
His immense wealth - Grant hung out with the likes of Howard Hughes and Donald Crisp, an actor/director who later became a powerbroker behind the scenes. Over the decades, Grant made tens of millions from his investments, and so was never under any pressure to work like many of the other actors from his era.share
His range was always limited - Since he was always a movie star, and he’d done little theater work since the early 1930s, he was never going to be able to the complex roles that were coming along following the end of the Hays Code and he almost certainly knew it. Rather than looking a caricature of himself as a number of other performers from his era did, he decided to pack it in early.
His refusal to do television - Like a number of actors from his era, the thought of doing television was a “step down” for him. Although he could have earned millions from doing so and even remained in and around his home in Malibu will doing it, he chose not and so retired.
His vanity - Grant refused to play older characters (he referred to them as “bums”) nor would portray grandfathers or take character roles. When it became clear by the late 1960s that the future wasn’t going to be Cary Grant as the name above the title of a film, he decided to end his run in Hollywood.