Agreed

There is a major but very difficult realization that needs to be reached about [Cary] Grant -- difficult, that is, for many people who like to think they take the art of film seriously. As well as being a leading box-office draw for some thirty years, the epitome of the man-about-town, as well as being the ex-husband of Virginia Cherrell, Barbara Hutton, Betsy Drake, and Dyan Cannon, as well as being the retired actor, still handsome executive of a perfume company -- as well as all these things, he was the best and most important actor in the history of cinema.

-- David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film