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Stars who were SPIES!

AWAY FROM THE CAMERA, THESE STARS WERE PLAYING EVEN BIGGER ROLES

CARY GRANT

Best remembered as the dashing leading man in classic films like An Affair to Remember and North by Northwest, Cary Grant was leading a double life as a real-life spy employed by the British government.

Cary, who passed away aged 82 in 1986, was one of the world’s best Nazi hunters during World War II. He would keep tabs on suspected sympathisers in Hollywood and report on them to the government.

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