In showbiz reference books Mr Faye lists a dozen films in which he supplied comic diversion to the likes of Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Cary Grant, and a dozen shows in which he starred in television.

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Of course people may remember it as a wonderful film with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant.

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On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee, a down-home, smooth-talking Arkansan is paired with a suave (though British-born) Cary Grant.

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Physically, he's a throwback to heartthrobs like Clark Gable and Cary Grant.

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Hollywood legends Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Cary Grant walked the halls, and Richard Nixon had a long stay there before he was elected president.

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In the early 1950s, after stints as a radio disc jockey and TV host in his home state, he moved to New York where he became a nightclub comic doing impressions of John Wayne and Cary Grant, as well as creating new characters of his own.

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In turn, Vertigo's love theme makes a poignant return in North by Northwest, as does the vertigo chord when Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint have their turn clutching Hitchcock's precipice.

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