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Part of the Biography television series from A&E, this documentary reviews the career and personal life of the famous film actor Cary Grant. Running away from home at age 13, he became a song-and-dance man, first arriving in New York in 1920 with an acrobatic troupe. Returning to London in 1923, he began appearing in musical comedies where he was discovered by stage producer Arthur Hammerstein, who brought him back to New York. He made his movie debut in This Is the Night (1932) and went on to become one of the most popular actors of his time, a suave, debonair, seemingly ageless performer in comedies, romances, and adventure films. His big break came in 1933 in the film She Done Him Wrong starring with Mae West. By the time he made his final film, Walk Don't Run in 1966, he had made 73 films. Off screen he had five wives and one daughter and was alleged at various times to have been everything from a cheapskate to a user of LSD. He never received an Academy Award despite his body of work which included such films as North by Northwest and the Philadelphia Story. He did, however, receive a special Academy Award in 1970.