Jason Isaacs Looks Positively Dreamy In the Trailer for BritBox's Cary Grant Drama 'Archie'

BritBox has released the trailer for its upcoming biographical drama Archie, a four-part series that explores the life and career of Bristol-born British actor Archibald Leach, better known to the world as All-American heartthrob Cary Grant.

Grant is rightly remembered as Hollywood royalty, the star of such unforgettable film classics as An Affair to Remember, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, and Notorious. (To name just a few!) But few are probably aware of how hard his road to stardom actually was.  Growing up in extreme poverty, the young Archibald's childhood was a difficult one, marked by his father's alcoholism and adultery, the death of his oldest brother John, and the subsequent deep depression that his mother Elsie never really managed to recover from. The BritBox series aims to follow the story of the young man who first auditioned for a music hall act at the age of 14 to the heights of superstardom. (And changed his name to something American audiences would like better along the way.)

Archie will also explore Grant's unhappy private life, including his four failed marriages and retirement from the film industry in 1966 when his daughter Jennifer was born. (His fifth and final marriage --- which was reportedly a happy one -- was to Barbara Harris, a woman 47 years his junior at the time they wed.)