 Cary Grant (qv) had announced his retirement from acting in  February 1953, stating that since the rise of Method actors like  Marlon Brando (qv) most people were no longer interested in seeing  him. He was also angry at the way Charles Chaplin (qv) had been  treated by the HUAC. He was lured out of his retirement to make this  film, and thereafter continued acting for a further 11 years.