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What legacy did Cary Grant leave?
Biographers Morecambe and Stirling believe that Cary Grant was the greatest leading man Hollywood had ever known.
What else did directors say about Cary Grant's legacy?
David Thomson and directors Stanley Donen and Howard Hawks concurred that Cary Grant was the greatest and most important actor in the history of the cinema
What was Cary Grant's first big film?
The Awful Truth (1937) began what film critic Benjamin Schwarz of The Atlantic later called the most spectacular run ever for an actor in American pictures for Cary Grant.

Question: What year did he die
Self-contained rewrite: What year did Cary Grant die?