“Old Cary Grant fine. How you?” — Cary Grant quote, disputed

DisputedCommonly credited to Cary Grant; the attribution does not hold up.

“Old Cary Grant fine. How you?”

Cary Grant · 1959 · press

The supposed reply to a magazine editor who cabled: 'How old Cary Grant?'

On the attribution

No contemporary record of this telegram exchange exists. Researchers at Quote Investigator found the earliest printed versions only in the late 1950s, and early variants of the same joke were attached to other public figures before it settled on Grant. It is a good joke of uncertain parentage, not a documented remark.

On the same subject.

“Acting is a matter of hiding what you have to show and showing what you have to hide.”
Cary Grant
“I refuse to discuss my private life and my friendships and my family, present, past and future.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“It took time to be accepted; it almost took twenty years until I got to be like a well-advertised brand of tea. Housewives bought that kind rather than take a chance on a brand they are not familiar with.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.”
Cary Grant · 1958