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He was in a film called “Gunga Din,” which is about wars in India and the Indian actors were lighter than him.

“All movies should be like the first twenty-five and the last thirty minutes of ‘Gunga Din,’” wrote Benjamin Crisler in his review for The Times.

The series, which runs every Thursday through March 25, will also show “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” “Gunga Din,” “The Searchers,” “My Fair Lady,” “Stagecoach,” “Woman of the Year” and “The Children’s Hour.”

Despite a heyday more than a half-century ago, his best films wear so well because the appeal of Cary Grant defies time - screwball comedies like “Bringing Up Baby” and “His Girl Friday,” romances like “The Philadelphia Story” and “An Affair to Remember,” the adventure “Gunga Din” or any of his four Alfred Hitchcock films, particularly “Notorious” and “North By Northwest.”

George Stevens made a name for himself directing such classics as the sophisticated 1936 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical “Swing Time,” the rip-roaring 1939 adventure “Gunga Din” and the charming 1943 romantic comedy “The More the Merrier.”