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Cary Grant(1904-1986)

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Cary Grant
During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
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Walk Don't Run (1966)
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Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."

Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in Bristol would have been an ordinary lower-middle-class childhood, except for one extraordinary event. At age nine, he came home from school one day and was told his mother had gone off to a seaside resort. However, the real truth was that she had been placed in a mental institution, where she would remain for years, and he was never told about it (he would not see his mother again until he was in his late 20s).

He left school at age 14, lying about his age and forging his father's signature on a letter to join Bob Pender's troupe of knockabout comedians. He learned pantomime as well as acrobatics as he toured with the Pender troupe in the English provinces, picked up a Cockney accent in the music halls in London, and then in July 1920, was one of the eight Pender boys selected to go to the United States. Their show on Broadway, "Good Times", ran for 456 performances, giving Grant time to acclimatize. He would stay in America. Mae West wanted Grant for She Done Him Wrong (1933) because she saw his combination of virility, sexuality and the aura and bearing of a gentleman. Grant was young enough to begin the new career of fatherhood when he stopped making movies at age 62.

One biographer said Grant was alienated by the new realism in the film industry. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he had invented a man-of-the-world persona and a style - "high comedy with polished words". In To Catch a Thief (1955), he and Grace Kelly were allowed to improvise some of the dialogue. They knew what the director, Alfred Hitchcock, wanted to do with a scene, they rehearsed it, put in some clever double entendres that got past the censors, and then the scene was filmed. His biggest box-office success was another Hitchcock 1950s film, North by Northwest (1959) made with Eva Marie Saint since Kelly was by that time Princess of Monaco.

Although Grant retired from the screen, he remained active. He accepted a position on the board of directors at Faberge. By all accounts this position was not honorary, as some had assumed. Grant regularly attended meetings and traveled internationally to support them. The position also permitted use of a private plane, which Grant could use to fly to see his daughter wherever her mother Dyan Cannon, was working. He later joined the boards of Hollywood Park, the Academy of Magical Arts (The Magic Castle - Hollywood, California), Western Airlines (acquired by Delta Airlines in 1987) and MGM.

Grant expressed no interest in making a career comeback. He was in good health until almost the end of his life, when he suffered a mild stroke in October 1984. In his last years, he undertook tours of the United States in a one-man-show, "A Conversation with Cary Grant", in which he would show clips from his films and answer audience questions. On November 29, 1986, Cary Grant died at age 82 of a cerebral hemorrhage in Davenport, Iowa.

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second male star of Golden Age of Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart). Grant was known for comedic and dramatic roles; his best-known films include Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959) and Charade (1963).
BornJanuary 18, 1904
DiedNovember 29, 1986(82)
BornJanuary 18, 1904
DiedNovember 29, 1986(82)
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  • Nominated for 2 Oscars

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Cary Grant in Gunga Din (1939)
Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Victor McLaglen in Gunga Din (1939)
Cary Grant in Gunga Din (1939)
Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, and Victor McLaglen in Gunga Din (1939)
Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Victor McLaglen in Gunga Din (1939)
Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, Sam Jaffe, and Victor McLaglen in Gunga Din (1939)
Cary Grant in Gunga Din (1939)
Cary Grant, Sam Jaffe, and Victor McLaglen in Gunga Din (1939)
Cary Grant in Gunga Din (1939)

Known for

Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963)
Charade
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  • Peter Joshua
  • 1963
Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Eva Marie Saint, and Philip Ober in North by Northwest (1959)
North by Northwest
8.3
  • Roger Thornhill
  • 1959
Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant in Suspicion (1941)
Suspicion
7.3
  • Johnnie Aysgarth
  • 1941
Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains in Notorious (1946)
Notorious
7.9
  • Devlin
  • 1946

Credits

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Actor

  • Walk Don't Run (1966)
    Walk Don't Run
  • Cary Grant and Leslie Caron in Father Goose (1964)
    Father Goose
  • Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963)
    Charade
  • Doris Day and Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink (1962)
    That Touch of Mink
  • The Grass Is Greener (1960)
    The Grass Is Greener
  • Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in Operation Petticoat (1959)
    Operation Petticoat
  • Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Eva Marie Saint, and Philip Ober in North by Northwest (1959)
    North by Northwest
  • Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Mimi Gibson, Charles Herbert, and Paul Petersen in Houseboat (1958)
    Houseboat
  • Indiscreet (1958)
    Indiscreet
  • Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, and Suzy Parker in Kiss Them for Me (1957)
    Kiss Them for Me
  • An Affair to Remember (1957)
    An Affair to Remember
  • Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, and Frank Sinatra in The Pride and the Passion (1957)
    The Pride and the Passion
  • Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief (1955)
    To Catch a Thief
  • Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, and Betta St. John in Dream Wife (1953)
    Dream Wife
  • Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Ginger Rogers, and Charles Coburn in Monkey Business (1952)
    Monkey Business

Producer

  • The Grass Is Greener (1960)
    The Grass Is Greener
    • (uncredited)

Soundtrack

  • That's Entertainment! (1974)
    That's Entertainment!
    • (uncredited)
  • Walk Don't Run (1966)
    Walk Don't Run
    • ("Charade", uncredited)
  • Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Eva Marie Saint, and Philip Ober in North by Northwest (1959)
    North by Northwest
    • ("Singin' in the Rain" (1929))
  • An Affair to Remember (1957)
    An Affair to Remember
  • Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Ginger Rogers, and Charles Coburn in Monkey Business (1952)
    Monkey Business
    • (uncredited)
  • Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, and George Winslow in Room for One More (1952)
    Room for One More
  • Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Melvyn Douglas in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
    Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
    • (uncredited)
  • Cary Grant, Eve Arden, Mary Martin, Ginny Simms, Alexis Smith, and Jane Wyman in Night and Day (1946)
    Night and Day
    • (uncredited)
  • Cary Grant in None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
    None But the Lonely Heart
    • (uncredited)
  • Cary Grant and Laraine Day in Mr. Lucky (1943)
    Mr. Lucky
    • ("Something To Remember You By" (1930))
  • Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in Penny Serenade (1941)
    Penny Serenade
    • (uncredited)
  • Cary Grant, June Hedin, Dickie Jones, and Martha Scott in The Howards of Virginia (1940)
    The Howards of Virginia
    • ("The Huntsman and His Master", uncredited)
  • Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, and Gail Patrick in My Favorite Wife (1940)
    My Favorite Wife
    • (uncredited)
  • Cary Grant, Rita Hayworth, and Jean Arthur in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
    Only Angels Have Wings
    • (uncredited)
  • Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
    Bringing Up Baby
    • (uncredited)

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Personal details

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    • January 18, 1904
    • Horfield, Bristol, England, UK
    • November 29, 1986
    • Davenport, Iowa, USA(cerebral hemorrhage)
    • Barbara HarrisApril 11, 1981 - November 29, 1986 (his death)
    • Jennifer Grant
  • Other works
    Intermission P.S.A., for American Lung Association's Christmas Seals
  • Publicity listings
    • 4 Biographical Movies
    • 20 Print Biographies
    • 8 Portrayals
    • 1 Interview
    • 28 Articles
    • 7 Pictorials
    • 9 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Donated his entire salary for Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) ($100,000) to the U.S. War Relief Fund.
  • Quotes
    [responding to a wire from a reporter inquiring, "How old Cary Grant?"] Old Cary Grant fine. How you?
    • Mid-Atlantic accent
    • That Touch of Mink
      (1962)
      $4,000,000 (including his percentage of the gross profits.)

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