Why He Still Matters
Editor's note on the founding of this publication.
Cary Grant retired from the screen in 1966. He has been dead since 1986. The films remain, and remain watched — but what is preserved on celluloid needs to be met, every generation, by something written down.
This publication exists to be that written record: to describe the films with care, to place the man in the century he actually lived through, and to argue — where argument is warranted — for why any of this still matters.
Facts first. Context second. Reflection last.
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