Career: After appearing in several musicals on Broadway under the name Archie Leach, Grant moved to Hollywood in 1931. He signed up with Paramount Pictures and was given the stage name Cary Grant. He starred opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932) and appeared in two of Mae West's most successful films, She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel (both 1933). Grant moved to Columbia Pictures in 1936. The Awful Truth (1937) established Grant's screen persona as a light comedy leading man. He went on to star in a number of romantic comedies, including Holiday (1938), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940 and My Favourite Wife (1940). In 1941 he starred in Suspicion, the first of four collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock - the others being Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). In the mid-1950s, he formed his own production company, Granart Productions. In 1963, he appeared alongside Audrey Hepburn in Charade. He retired from acting after making the film Walk, Don't Run (1966). In the late 1960s, he joined the board of directors at Faberge and later joined the boards of other companies, including MGM. In the last few years of his life, he toured in a one-man show, A Conversation with Cary Grant. On the afternoon of November 29, 1986, he sustained a cerebral haemorrhage. He died later that same day, at the age of 82.