“(Cary Grant) is, along with Fred Astaire, the best-dressed actor in American movies”

—  Fred Astaire

Benjamin Schwarz in " Becoming Cary Grant http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/01/becoming-cary-grant/5548/" The Atlantic, January/February 2007

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