Review: In Becoming Cary Grant, the Turmoil Beneath the Suave.
'One of the more interesting celebrity documentaries of recent years was “Listen to Me Marlon,” Stevan Riley’s eerie 2015 biography of Marlon Brando, which used audiotapes the actor made, as well as a weird holographic head of him, to conjure his life. “Becoming Cary Grant,” Friday night on Showtime, takes a similar approach with another legendary movie star, though without the hologram.
Grant “speaks” through excerpts from an unpublished autobiography (read by Jonathan Pryce) and home movies he shot, which the documentary’s director, Mark Kidel, intercuts with scenes from Grant’s many movies to show that this seemingly unflappable leading man was a bundle of doubts and insecurities.
“All my life I’ve been searching for peace of mind,” Mr. Pryce, reading Grant’s words, says.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/arts/television/review-becoming-cary-grant-showtime.html?